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Tag Archives: Quotes
Protecting the questions and living into the answers
You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves … Continue reading
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Oppression is not gender-based or race-based…
I’ve been reading, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, by Bill Plotkin. This very well could be a handbook for the future of community growth models and life stages of transformation… so appropriate … Continue reading
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Eternal repercussions of temporary intentions
If you can grasp this, you’ll get a great deal of what I have been trying to say about Heaven and Hell, free will, eternity, time, and knowledge of the divine. From The Great Divorce, by CS Lewis (italics mine) … Continue reading
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Fugitive pieces… a film of wounds, healing, and freedom
I saw the movie “Fugitive Pieces” last week (trailer below), and have been sitting with it for quite some time now. So poetic and so heartfelt, it is one that truly does offer some amazing insight as to how we … Continue reading
“Born again” is all messed up…
I never really have liked that language… and in fact you probably won’t ever hear me use it in conversation or speaking. Here is from Richard Rohr (Adam’s Return) It seems that most of humanity intuited the need for two … Continue reading
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