Subtle Secret #1: Yellow as the Essence of Joy

Subtle Secret #1: Yellow as the Essence of Joy

The first of the Five Subtle Secrets I want to tell you about is The Yellow. And The Yellow is the Joy essence.  I think Rumi best captures the very nature of The Yellow in this simple sentence: “The soul is here for its own joy.” But of course, if the word “joy” said it [...]

How to Get What You Just Don’t Get

How to Get What You Just Don’t Get

A truly amazing example of what I’d call an open secret showed up in a story I heard awhile back about one of the famous explorers that we all learned about in history class. Except I don’t remember hearing this part back then. It seems that when Magellan sailed the coast of South America into [...]

Where Do You Look for Buried Treasure?

Where Do You Look for Buried Treasure?

Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Well, maybe everybody doesn’t always like mysteries, especially those times when you happen to be lost in one yourself. I guess nobody likes the kind of mystery that starts off with lines like these: “Why on earth would you do a thing like that?” “Who stole my blue cashmere [...]