Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Friday, June 16, 2017

Hostage to the Idea of Possession

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"Eros makes promises, but agape keeps them." -- The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis Often we find ourselves in places which we never ...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

What Do You Live For?

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"What if what we long hoped for does not come? The willingness to live for a better day." What am I living for? Living for the...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Knowledge, Commitment and Freedom

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"Only true knowledge of a person makes it possible to commit one's freedom to the other." --Karol Wojtyla "Love,...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Does God Need To Be Famous?

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"We can still remain a free person. Free from what?" Going Home by Thich Nhat Hanh Writing in his book, Going Home , Buddhist M...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

I Am That

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"...One who is ascended has achieved [the] Christ's injunction to be in this world but not of it." --The Path to Love by Dee...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

The Human Self, One, Irreplaceble

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"I would know you in order to know myself." The word person has great significance. "Today our way of thinking about peo...
Monday, May 6, 2013

The Precious Jewel

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"Don't covet the leftovers of others while losing the precious jewel that hangs around your own neck."  --Zen Master Bassui ...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Citizen Awake!

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"We dare defend our rights! Live free or die! Wisdom, justice and moderation. Let it be perpetual!"   --United States state's...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

Between Something and Nothing

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"Be transformed by the renewal of your mind." -- Romans 12:2 There surely is an intersection in the cosmic world entitled Somet...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Divine Puppet Show

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"Physical freedom means that there is nothing to hinder me from acting as I choose to act." Augustine: On Free Choice and the Wil...
Monday, September 20, 2010

The Meaning of Looking at the Self with Hatred

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"The root of life and death is the discriminating mind." Mud and Water by Bassui "Looking at one's self is as intense a...
Monday, June 14, 2010

A Light in the Cage

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"...there is no man who is not shaken for an instant by the eternal." --I Asked for Wonder by Abraham Joshua Heschel Writing in...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Self-Forgiveness: Crossing Boundaries

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"Self-forgiveness is a stance of hope, of freedom." Forgiving Yourself by Beverly Flannigan Continuing consideration of the valu...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Tangle of Emotions

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"In this work, I search for the soul in the tangle of emotions."   --The Soul's Religion by Thomas Moore Emotions, and the ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Mahayana and Freedom of the Dharmakaya

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"When bodhisattvas think of the Dharmakaya, how will they picture it to themselves?" --General Treatise on Mayhayanism by Asanga ...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Struggle for Love: What Do You Live For?

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"What if what we long hoped for, does not come? Willingness to risk for a better day" Continuing in the book Bold Love, Dan Allen...