Apr 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
So far it’s almost as though I have no concept of what a month is. Does time even pass?” Somehow, this expansive sense of all time/no time feels a bit different than an ordinary shift from stuff to space. Are we actually in limbo between realities?
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Dec 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was just thinking how the holidays elicit the adjectives MERRY and HAPPY. It’s so easy to think that means twinkling lights, presents with bows, tinsel, silver bells, noise-makers, champagne, and a cute array of decorated cookies. Perhaps I’ve been watching too many Hallmark Christmas movies? Anyway, nothing at all wrong with merry and happy. . . I just started to feel into a deeper function of this “turning of the year” ritual time, which we often forget to notice.
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Oct 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Knights-errant striving to attain the grail labor toward an ideal of chivalry which, contrary to the ecstatic rapture of Amor, exposes them to difficulties, trials, and suffering, the very experiences that prepare them to apprehend the sublime. Chivalry may well be the generative, procreative quality of the heart, and it gives birth to individual expressions of courage, nobility, mercy, curiosity, patience, and charity.
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Jun 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
We need to get past the idea that we lose energy or that we don’t have it. When the mind stops paying attention to the energy that’s in you, you feel “absence.” When the mind pays attention to the energy within, you feel “presence.”
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May 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
She saw in the rainbow the earth’s new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven.”
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