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LETTING GO OF HATRED
“The Buddha declares, ‘Enraged with hate, with mind ensnared, humans aim at their own ruin and at the ruin of others.’” (Jack Kornfield, https://jackkornfield.com/nature-hate/ ) Yes, the world is suffering. Armed conflicts are raging in the Middle East, Russia and Ukraine, … Continue reading
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A KINDER, GENTLER NATION
“The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to…” (Tao Te Ching, Verse 8) Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I watched violence erupt at home and abroad: civil rights, the Vietnam War, and the … Continue reading
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CONNECTING TO SELF (CHOOSING TO CONNECT, PART 2)
I was born in 1954. I remember air raid drills from my early school days, when all the kids had to sit under their wooden desks until the bell rang. We were practicing hiding, how to stay safe in case … Continue reading
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CONNECTING WITH OTHERS (CHOOSING TO CONNECT, PART 1)
In the last several posts, I expressed my deep concerns about the trajectory of our public discourse. In our public sphere, people are increasingly dividing within communities, families, and among friends. Dialogue dissolves into arguments fueled by anger, fear, and … Continue reading
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Moral Vision, Religion, and the Transcendent
“What is certain is that, to this point, most of the unquestionably sublime achievements of the human intellect and imagination have arisen in worlds shaped by some vision of transcendent truth.” (David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, … Continue reading
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REACHING FOR OUR BETTER ANGELS
“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely, they will be, by the … Continue reading
LONGING TO BE SEEN
“… I have now seen the One who sees me…” (Genesis 16:13) All of us long to be seen. Being seen is relational. It requires another to be the “seer”. When people see us, they actively listen, they hear us. … Continue reading
ENTERING TIMELESSNESS: A MOMENT OF PAUSE
“… that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal…” (From the Collect of the Day, Lectionary of the Episcopal Church, Proper 12, Sunday closest to July … Continue reading
COMING ALIVE IN LOVE
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive….” (Howard Thurman, mentor to Martin Luther King) This week, witnessing … Continue reading
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IMAGES OF GOD & SELF
We hear the familiar words: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…. and then separated light from dark…” (Genesis 1:1) This Day 1. On Day 6, we humans show. “God says, ‘Let us make mankind in our … Continue reading
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