Mark J Janssen

Our world feels as if we humans are becoming ever more disconnected from ourselves and each other. Once we had the capacity to cordially disagree on topics. Now we find ourselves with knives drawn on almost everything. With everything we see and hear i…

To be spiritually alive we have to be in the “do” part of life. The part where we are in the middle of life, making things happen. Living in the “don’t” kills any hope of a positive spiritual life, much less spiritual progress. It’s like the young woman…

There is a pseudo-spiritual, pseudo-psychiatric saying that we are to forgive and forget. Depending on your point of view, it goes back to the Bible, Shakespeare (King Lear) or Cervantes (Don Quixote). I strongly recommend that people look to either Sha…