by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Apr 8, 2016 | sophia
The symmetry of beauty has been on my mind, especially the way it happens in the symmetry of sacrifice. As an expression of deep love, God shouldered a cross in order to create the universe—in turn—as an expression of deep love, we shoulder our cross and the beauty is... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Jan 13, 2016 | sophia
‘A God Delusion’ is what Richard Dawkins should have titled his book, which (in a dead giveaway of his rather pompous approach) he called ‘The God Delusion’. I haven’t finished reading it yet but every page so far is reinforcing the fact... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Nov 14, 2015 | Close to Home
A birthday invitation to my aunt’s 80th has been lying around on my desk for a while now. I’m sure it’s here somewhere. I push a hand underneath the pile and tip it all upside down. There it is! A lovely sheet of pale, silken paper in a stylish font. I... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Oct 2, 2015 | Quotes
‘Free will is an attraction to truth the way a flower is attracted to light.’* The more you bend your free will towards the darkness (of your lower self) the more the flower wilts and the less free will you have—hence the frustration, the desperation and... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Sep 15, 2015 | Poems
The day is done, the night has come Our home no longer in the sun. So quiet and still, the body fades and folds Sweet as that old brown river’s black soil plains. We slept—we did—on hot summer nights And talked and stirred the coals and looked and knew We were...