“Iola Pond” - A place I once lived
Weekly Tao Te Ching
CHAPTER 49
The Sage's heart is formed entirely by the Tao, he therefore holds no fixed opinions and is open to the hearts of others.
He is good to those who behave with goodness. He is also good to those who do not behave with goodness, because his nature is goodness. He doesn't try to gain advantage so people lose their defensive edge around him. He knows he is a part of everything that is..
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Weekly - Mirabai Starr
An authentic spiritual meltdown
“…an authentic spiritual meltdown is a cause for celebration. It is only then that we are stripped of our attachment to the way the presence of God is supposed to feel, and begin to rest in spiritual nakedness. Divested of our constructs about the existence and nature of this God, we come face to face with Ultimate Reality. In the midst of our crumbling, we may not see it as grace. In fact, it looks as though we are giving up on God or, even worse, that God has abandoned us.”
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Weekly - Anthony de Mello
“There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.”
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Weekly - Alan Watts
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
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Weekly - William Paul Young
“Perhaps true change increased the space in one's heart, creating openness that allowed for authentic community.”
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Doodle of the Week (1)
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Weekly - Deng Ming Dao
“Each day your life grows a day shorter. Make every move count.”
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Weekly - Peter Rollins
“Christianity thus engages in a pragmatic discourse which intends towards the one who lies beyond all language. As such, the language of faith is at its best when it both remembers its profound limitations and simultaneously places us in a clearing within which we can be addressed by God.”
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Weekly - Maya Angelou
We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.
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Weekly - Thich Nhat Hanh
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
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Doodle of the Week (2)
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Weekly - Richard Rohr
“You cannot be naïve about evil. You cannot be naïve to the reality that there are human beings and human situations which have totally identified with the dark side of reality. They are malicious. Realism teaches you to put up appropriate boundaries so that people can't do any more evil than possible. But that doesn't mean you do evil back to them.”
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Weekly - Brian D. McLaren
“Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even lays down his life for the other.”
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Keith’s Weekly Pick
After his skiing accident, Jun-ji kindly states, “Karen is coming to make me pancakes!”
~John Hermanson
"Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo" by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)
