“Iola Pond” - A place I once lived
Weekly Tao Te Ching
CHAPTER 43
A fluid and gentle power will overcome a stiff and inflexible strength.
A spacious vessel is more potent and creative than one that is full to the brim.
This is why we work with wu-wei, “effortless action
We act from stillness. We talk from silence. In a world of clamor and aggression, this is not a popular way, yet it is the only way to happiness.
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Weekly - Mirabai Starr
“Countless women and men – known and unknown – stand up every day to give voice to the voiceless – not because it seems like the right thing to do, but because they have no choice: The call comes storming through the gates of their hearts… In the act of surrendering to the Divine, the prophet relinquishes comfort, control, and any hope of being understood.”
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Weekly - Anthony de Mello
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide.
While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith.
Faith?" said the Master.
He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?"
That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.”
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Weekly - Alan Watts
“Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.”
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Weekly - William Paul Young
“The inside house of the soul is magnificent but fragile; any betrayals and lies embedded in its walls and foundation shift its construction in directions unimagined.”
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Doodle of the Week (1)
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Weekly - Deng Ming Dao
“What is it like to feel Tao? It is an effortless flowing, a sweeping momentum. It is like bird song soaring and gliding over a vast landscape. You can feel this in your life: Events will take on a perfect momentum, a glorious cadence. You can feel it in your body: The energy will rise up in you in a thrilling crescendo, setting your very nerves aglow. You can feel it in your spirit: You will enter a state of such perfect grace that you will resound over the landscape of reality like ephemeral bird song.
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Weekly - Peter Rollins
“This vision fundamentally challenges what Peter holds to be the command of God and opens up a difficult dilemma: in order to obey the command of God he must disobey the command of God.”
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Weekly - Maya Angelou
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
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Weekly - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything.”
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Doodle of the Week (2)
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Weekly - Richard Rohr
“Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”
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Weekly - Brian D. McLaren
"Spiritual practices could be called life practices or humane practices because they help us practice being alive, and humanely so. They develop not just character but also aliveness, alertness, wakefulness, and humanity. . . . Spiritual practices are about life, about training ourselves to become the kinds of people who have eyes and actually see, and who have ears and actually hear, and so experience — with increasing consistency and resiliency, even in economy class — not just survival but Life, capitalized and modified by insufficient adjectives such as real, abundant, examined, conscious, worth living, and good."
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Keith’s Weekly Pick
The more tools we get to enhance reality, the harder it’s getting to find any.
~Andy Hutchinson
"Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo" by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)
