subear
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| 05/12/2008 1:58 PM |
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"We meet to part again. I have no words to respond to this double inspiration."
-Wen Chao, The Clouds Should Know Me By Now
("Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations," edited by Josh Bartok) |
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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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| 05/12/2008 5:56 PM |
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“Where There is a Stairway it Should be Used”– A Chinese Proverb
(with a smile). |
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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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| 05/30/2008 10:42 AM |
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"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings
infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side
can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them
which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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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
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| 05/30/2008 11:09 AM |
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Yes!
LYA, BC |
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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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| 06/02/2008 8:57 PM |
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"You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
- - C.S. Lewis |
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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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| 06/04/2008 11:26 AM |
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Chinese Wisdom of the Tao
Flow with whatever may happen
and let your mind be free;
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate.
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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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progressive4christ
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| 06/04/2008 10:25 PM |
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| "Too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of other human beings." My hero- RFK. Part of his speech on the mindless menace of violents in America. You can here the whole speece on YouTube. Brilliant speaker.
I had the honor to meet one of his sons, Max Kennedy. I told him that his dad is my hero and a few other things; he gave me a hug and I got our pix taken togather. |
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"Still, the Bible is like a mirror. You end up reading it not as a reflection of how it is but of how you are. If you're a bigoted, narrow person, you will find bigotry in the Bible." D. Tammet
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subear
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| 06/08/2008 12:29 PM |
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
- - Benjamin Disraeli |
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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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Max
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| 06/10/2008 10:24 AM |
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"Sometimes
we need to get away from the busyness of the world around us
and search out the quiet places ---
places where we may seek understanding,
take time to organize our thoughts,
in touch with our deepenst selves,
and then
be ready to give all that is asked of us to our world again."
---author unknow.... |
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"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Augustin
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subear
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| 06/14/2008 4:09 PM |
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Yes!
"Silence is a source of great strength."
- Lao Tzu, Taoist philosopher
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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
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| 06/14/2008 5:40 PM |
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| Such beautiful Truth You share.... |
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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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Max
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| 06/14/2008 6:10 PM |
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"Lament and mourn and weep.
Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.
Humble yourelves before the Lord, and he will exalt you." Jasmes 4:9-10
Evagrius Pinticus wrote, "let your first prayer be for the gift of tears. Sorrow will soften your natural disrespect. Once you have confessed your sinss to the Lord, he will forgive you. When you pray with tears, God will pay close attention. Nothing pleases the Lord more than an entreaty accompanied by tears.
"Though fountains of tears flow during your prayer, never think that you are better than others. Your prayers have simply received the help you need to confess your sins without hindrance."
WHEN YOU PRAY WITH TEARS, GOD WILL PAY CLOSE ATTENTION.
From: By Way of the Desert..... |
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"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Augustin
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subear
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| 06/14/2008 7:41 PM |
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nice quotem Max. . . so I Googled "Evagrius Pinticus" to see who this person was, and Google said: "did you mean Evangrius Ponticul?" so I clicked "ok" and found:
"Evagrius Ponticus, or Evagrius the Solitary (345-399 A.D.) was a Christian monk and ascetic. One of the rising stars in the late fourth century church, ..." (wikipedia.com)
and this:
"Evagrius Ponticus (c. 346-399) was an Egyptian monastic, and one of the earliest spiritual writers on asceticism in the Christian eremitic tradition. ..."
orthodoxwiki.org/Evagrius_Ponticus
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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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Max
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| 06/14/2008 8:06 PM |
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The quote was from my devotional, May 31th...it came propitiously as I was really feeling sad, as I contemplated on the state of our nation, and the world...pondering what and how to be an Easter People in a Good Friday world....
Blessings and peace,
Max |
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"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Augustin
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Max
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| 06/17/2008 3:15 PM |
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"What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore? And the run?
Does it sink like rotten mean? Or crust or sygar over? Like syropy sweet?
Maybeit just sags
like a heavy load
Or does it explode?"
---Langston Hughes |
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"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Augustin
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subear
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| 06/20/2008 12:15 PM |
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"The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not."
"Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer."
- - Bo Lozoff (the Human Kindness Foundation)
(Human Kindness Foundation, PO Box 61619, Durham, NC 27715; 919-383-5160) http://www.humankindness.org/index.html
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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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Max
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| 06/21/2008 11:36 AM |
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| "War is a coward's escape from the problems of peace".....Thomas Mann |
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"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Augustin
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Max
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| 06/22/2008 6:55 AM |
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Lorsque le pouvoir de l'amour dépassera l'amour du pouvoir, le monde connaîtra la paix.
Jimi Hendrix
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"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Augustin
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subear
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| 06/23/2008 2:02 PM |
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this is funny: I read the tab on my tea-bag this morning to say: "Feel great, act great, and improve yourself."
["okay, I'm workin' on that," I think to myself.]
After I got home from working out at the pool, I looked at the tab again to see that it really said: "Feel great, act great and approve of yourself."
Oh, my! did that speak to me!
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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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Linda
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| 06/23/2008 2:45 PM |
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:-)
MUCH different message!! I think approving leads to improving. When I approve of myself (as an overall being) I find it much easier to improve the areas that need it. |
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Paula K Ma
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| 06/23/2008 5:18 PM |
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| I agree completely. I can't tell you how many people I have met that are more critical because they are insecure in themselves. I'm trying to teach my children this. |
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Max
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| 06/29/2008 2:23 PM |
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Christiane Singer
"N'oublie pas les chevaux écumants du passé"
Close your eyes and listen to the noise of this human crowd behind you. All this humanity that preceded you!
Feel this long ‘chain of lovers’ (words of Eluard) of which at this moment you are the only visible link!
They did not despair of the world and you are the living proof!
It is with this awareness that you will find the force and courage to press forward.
The past does not hold us back but anchors us in the present, it instils us with the élan needed to press forward. |
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"The measure of love is to love without measure." St. Augustin
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Linda
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| 06/29/2008 9:39 PM |
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"We could give up trying to 'fix' others and just reach out to them. When we reach out to another, we have the possibility of remembering that we are one, we are the same."
--anonymous
(It's from my Page-A-Day calendar for Women Who Do Too Much, given to me by someone in my family who thinks I'm in that category.) |
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Linda
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| 07/01/2008 10:16 PM |
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From the cover notes of the newest CD by Linnea Good, Canadian singer/songwriter:
"...I know that life is not lived by its end-notes, but mid-song. In the arc of everyday living, we are suddenly stilled and held in the moment. Something becomes illuminated, suddenly true and in its right place. We know ourselves to be alive. Yet, the day propels us forward once again... If sainthood means living from the Center, then most of us are but Momentary Saints. And maybe that's just fine. Life is not about living up to something; it's about living into something." |
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MamaGavone
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| 07/05/2008 12:54 AM |
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| Two quotes by Arthur John Gossip from a sermon he gave after his wife's sudden, tragic death:
"Those who live in the sunshine may have faith, but those of us who walk in the shadows MUST have faith."
"Peace does not come with the absense of troubles, but with the conscious realization of adequate resources." |
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"What is therefore, our task today? Shall I answer: 'Faith, hope and love?' That sounds beautiful. But I would say – courage. No - even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness ... [t]o restlessly seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God."
from The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
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