Category Archives: spirituality

Life is a Great Tapestry (Albert Einstein)

Posted on December 27, 2018 by cdsmiller17

We are Each an Insignificant Thread Sometimes the inspiration of my daily post is something that I read on a Facebook page, like today’s from Center for Action and Contemplation. It was the use of the word “weave” which caught … Continue reading →

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Success or Failure: a Matter of Degree

Posted on December 16, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Winners and Losers It was a strange dream, last night, even by my own standards: I kept seeing two outcomes for a potential ‘success’ story. In the first instance, it was obvious that what was supposed to happen, didn’t. In … Continue reading →

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Is It Just a Handshake?

Posted on December 15, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Or an Exchange of Energy? We know the drill: upon meeting another person, we’ve been instructed to extend our right hand and offer to shake the other person’s right hand, firmly but kindly. Have you ever wondered why? It took … Continue reading →

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Mork Calling Orson…

Posted on December 14, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Come In Orson Yes, I know it’s old and trite now, but a television station in Hamilton, Ontario (CHCH) still runs episodes of Mork and Mindy on a daily basis. And at the end of each program, Mork reports what … Continue reading →

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The Demiurge in the Digital Age

Posted on December 12, 2018 by cdsmiller17

A Flow Chart? We don’t usually equate the Creator God with a computer programmer, but are they not One and the same? Everything in the known Universe can be broken down into binary code, the ‘on/off’ switch. And everything evolves … Continue reading →

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Leonardo da Vinci and the Vitruvian Man

Posted on December 11, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Universal Genius Following on from yesterday’s article about the Golden Ratio, I wish to focus on Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man, today. At the bottom of the original drawing on paper, Leonardo wrote some notes (backwards, mirror-style). Here’s a translation as quoted … Continue reading →

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Water: the Strongest Element?

Posted on December 5, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Where Would We Be Without It? Life on Earth owes a huge debt to water. Without it, we wouldn’t exist. And yet, it can be most unforgiving when it’s in its primal condition, liquid. Have you ever thought about it: … Continue reading →

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Utopia or Dystopia?

Posted on December 4, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Eve of Destruction or Dawn of a New Age? It all depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? The thinking on climate change is that we’re running out of time before we destroy this Earth and everything on it. And if … Continue reading →

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Carlos Castaneda Quotes 4

Posted on November 25, 2018 by cdsmiller17

On Parenting This is proving to be a bit of a stretch, trying to locate the quote about how a hole in our luminosity occurs when we become parents. It haunts me, because I know when I read it, it … Continue reading →

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You’re Talking My Language

Posted on November 25, 2018 by cdsmiller17

Text of an undated talk given by my father, James Ewart Miller The Tower of Babel Remember the story of the tower of Babel where men tried to build a tower that would reach to heaven? Those ancient people were … Continue reading →

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