Horrors at the end of our newspaper spoon I’m horrified by what I woke up to this morning, or, more...
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Writer/artist/musician still teaching preschool in SF bay area, Max Reif is the author of TOWARD AN INTERIOR SUN, a book of stories published by The Mindful Word; a book of poetry called Journey from Here to HERE; and a CD of songs, "The Wake-Up Man," dedicated to his Spiritual Guide, Meher Baba. He has been writing for The Mindful Word for around 5 years.
“The world is a temple, whose walls are covered with emblems, pictures, and commandments of the Deity.” – Ralph Waldo...
How this letter came to be “Never throw anyone out of your being,” someone wise once said. I’m still trying...
I recently read an article suggesting that Donald Trump represents the Jungian Shadow, the buried unruly, unmannerly part of people...
A spontaneously formed poem Last summer—in fact, I remember it was the first day of my summer vacation from my...
An encounter with a high school friend Very recently, I had an encounter with a dear high school friend that...
“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theatre where the dreamer is at once scene, actor,...
Making sense of our existence When I read about the water protectors in North Dakota, along with my basic sympathy...
Max Reif is the author of Toward an Interior Sun, recently published by The Mindful Word. Below are his in-depth...
My wife and I just finished watching the final episode of Downton Abbey, the “Masterpiece” TV drama about life in...
For breakfast these past couple months, I’ve been adding some cornmeal to egg whites and microwaving. But no matter how...
Down the Trail I saw a man with a stick and a hat, and he was walkin’. He looked like...
A couple of days ago, I wrote a short poem with the title “I Want to Be Creative.” So many...
So, your mind is a bowl, and every unmanaged problem is a leak in that bowl. Lost library books aren’t...
Travelling, as opposed to staying put I just returned from a three-week trip to Barcelona, Spain and two locations in...
LAUGH YOUR WAY TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS: An exploration of the complex yet uplifting nature of humour
A laugh fest Recently I was at a spiritual retreat. One afternoon, the women were scheduled to have a tea,...
The New Age movement is an amalgam of hundreds or even thousands of traditional, eclectic and cross-cultural practices and points...
A momentous dream In the mid-’70s, while I was in undergraduate school at the University of Cincinnati, I had the...
Some very tough choices This election cycle has necessitated the grappling with some very thorny choices! These involve not only...
Art, from the start As a small child I liked to draw Havana-like, royal palm-lined streets full of bistros. However,...
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
Me and the Moon and the Sycamore Tree I’ll tell you a tale of a sweet memory from a time...
This is the conclusion to a story, set in the late ’90s—read part 1» Cyber-launch I arrived in St. Louis...
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
