subear
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| 08/02/2007 1:10 PM |
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"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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TreeOfLife911
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| 08/02/2007 4:58 PM |
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| "My eye did not make this world, it only sees it." Don Quixote de la Mancha |
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Darren
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| 08/03/2007 10:24 AM |
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"The more compassion we bring to our own lives and our encounters with others, the more we empower each other to believe in the possibility of a world based on love and kindness."
Rabbi Michael Learner |
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Don NIederfrank
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| 08/08/2007 10:23 PM |
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"Doctrine divides;discipleship unites."
me :) |
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richrthr
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| 08/09/2007 7:58 AM |
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Posted By subear on 02/02/2007 4:01 PM
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. -- Tao Te Ching
"of course, if you hit the water too hard, it hurts like the dickens!"
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Richard Kiraly
Garden of Grace UCC
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subear
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| 08/29/2007 12:08 PM |
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"I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
-Thich Nhat Hanh, "Miracle of Mindfulness" |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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subear
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| 09/02/2007 8:07 PM |
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| "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." - Tim McGraw |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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subear
Posts:789
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| 09/03/2007 12:15 PM |
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"Happiness and suffering come from your own mind, not from outside. Your own mind is the cause of happiness; your own mind is the cause of suffering. To obtain happiness and pacify suffering, you have to work within your own mind."
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "The Door To Satisfaction" |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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Don NIederfrank
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| 09/03/2007 2:53 PM |
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Maybe we should start a poetry corner. :)
This is from our poet laureate.
STONE
Go inside a stone
That would be my way.
Let somebody else become a dove
Or gnash with a tiger's tooth.
I am happy to be a stone.
From the outside the stone is a riddle:
No one knows how to answer it.
Yet within, it must be cool and quiet
Even though a cow steps on it full weight,
Even though a child throws it in a river;
The stone sinks, slow, unperturbed
To the river bottom
Where the fishes come to knock on it
And listen.
I have seen sparks fly out
When two stones are rubbed,
So perhaps it is not dark inside after all;
Perhaps there is a moon shining
From somewhere, as though behind a hill--
Just enough light to make out
The strange writings, the star-charts
On the inner walls.
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subear
Posts:789
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| 09/03/2007 3:03 PM |
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Okay :-)
Nice poem.
Who is our poet laureate now?
-sb |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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Don NIederfrank
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| 09/03/2007 3:05 PM |
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Posted By subear on 09/03/2007 3:03 PM
Okay :-)
Nice poem.
Who is our poet laureate now?
-sb
ooops. Charles Simic.
I also posted it where it belongs. :oops: |
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BCakes
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| 09/03/2007 3:38 PM |
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| “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickinson |
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude...Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends." Love is. |
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subear
Posts:789
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| 09/03/2007 3:45 PM |
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"the power of meow
is fully being
at this moment
completely present
totally aware
your boundless
real authentic
cat like nature. . ."
The Power of Meow |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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BCakes
Posts:48
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| 09/03/2007 5:07 PM |
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| “Real beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived. Glamour can be manufactured.” -- Marilyn Monroe |
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude...Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends." Love is. |
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subear
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| 09/03/2007 5:10 PM |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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subear
Posts:789
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| 09/03/2007 5:18 PM |
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| "I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being." ---- Hafiz |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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BCakes
Posts:48
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| 09/03/2007 5:32 PM |
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| "Jesus said, 'You shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free' – but he never said that would happen right away." -- ? |
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude...Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends." Love is. |
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subear
Posts:789
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| 09/04/2007 10:21 AM |
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| "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul." -Mahatma Gandhi |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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subear
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| 09/05/2007 10:25 AM |
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"?" : Could it be that the Truth is, we are already free?
We must wake up to the Truth of our freedom; not in recklessness, but in mindful awareness.
Freedom comes with responsibility; all of our choices (thoughts, words, and actions) have consequences, sometimes unintended consequences from unconscious choices.
Yesterday, I heard someone say that discipline brings freedom.
"Our mind is like an onion, and each day and month of practice progressively peels away the layers of delusion.
-Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, Advice From a Spiritual Friend.
Love and Blessings,
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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BCakes
Posts:48
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| 09/06/2007 11:52 AM |
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I am always gratefull for the wisdom and grace that Subear brings to these pages. A small part of what I understand in her recent words about Truth and freedom is this:
God has already given the gift of freedom to each of us. The issue, then, is not if or when God will give us that precious gift. The issue has to do with if and when we will decide to recognize and receive that precious gift, and how we choose to embrace that gift as it finds expression in our lives.
Love and Blessings |
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude...Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends." Love is. |
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subear
Posts:789
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| 09/06/2007 12:32 PM |
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Thanks, B,
You translated the meaning of my words very well. (smile)
love and blessings,
sb |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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subear
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| 10/02/2007 12:03 PM |
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| "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." ~Galileo ~ |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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subear
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| 10/11/2007 3:30 PM |
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"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
~Franz Kafka |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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BCakes
Posts:48
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| 10/11/2007 3:40 PM |
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| You're Beautiful! |
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude...Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends." Love is. |
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subear
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| 10/11/2007 7:58 PM |
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B,
Thank you. (smile)
And You must be very young!
L&B,
-sb |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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