Of Mirrors And Boats
Can we still promote our own ego alongside of doing the will of God? Can we seek to still hold onto ninety percent of what we want and...
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my mind is the autumn moon shining in the blue-green pool reflecting glistening clear pure nothing compares there is no more to say - Han...
Easter Sunrise On An Inland Sea
under this frozen delta's pocked ice the ground steaming with fragrance masked jockeys position elsewhere along the altar-scraped back...
Good Friday
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the person that I want myself to be but who cannot exist,...
The World, We Are Told, Was Made Especially For Man...
...a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or...
I Abandon All Problems...
...to their own unsatisfactory solutions: including the problem of “monastic spirituality.” ...the Desert Fathers talked not about...
September 3, 1867
I escaped from the dust and squalor of [the tavern's] bedroom to the glorious forest. - John Muir, A Thousand Mile Walk To The Gulf
A False Interior Self
In contrast to our true self, whose discovery entails a ruthless stripping down, people may withdraw into their inner self in a manner...
A Pure Work Of Love
It would be fatal to believe that you could discover your true self by simply withdrawing. While a certain amount of withdrawal is...
On Refusing To Objectify I AM
I will walk in the presence of I AM in the land of the living. - Psalm 114:9 That is all that is required; that is everything that is...
The Perversion Of Life Starts With A Falsehood
It begins by adding a layer - the imposition of an object of self-interest - between one’s self and the simple and direct experience of...
Only By A Paradox
The race does not belong to swift; the battle does not belong to the strong. Ecclesiates 9:11a This self-denying element holds the...
There Is A Natural Climate
Blank. Inactivity. Devoid of thought. Poised. Expectant. Unable and unwilling to know what will follow. Without desire for preconceived...
I AM
There was a recent impeachment trial. It failed. It failed because it fell outside of legal precedent. There was no law in place to...
The Ten Words
I am I AM your God. You shall carve/cast no image of me. You shall make no directive by invoking my name. Be mindful of the seventh day...
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