Simple Mind Zen

Some people say: 'Alas, sir, I wish I stood as well with my spiritual life and devotions, that I had as much devotion and were as much ...

"When they go, Ghana will be here. They are like mice on an elephant's back. They will pass...He is just part of Africa." -...

The overproduction of people may lead to an overwhelming burden upon the earth. Science will answer for this concern . The 19th century P...

"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...

"Locke and Spinoza are the chalk and cheese of the early Enlightenment..."  -- Nature's God by Matthew Stewart The origins ...

"This was also the point in my life when I became a master at masking my true thoughts."    --an unknown blogger Simple Mindedl...

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

"Most of us go into relationships to find security; we want to be with someone else who makes us feel safe… Spiritually the answer to ...

"...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...

Update: The story is similar, the place is an elementary school in Connecticut. The gun violence is obvious, but maybe not so the illness p...

The recent events in a Colorado movie theater brings the topic of the mentally ill yet again to fore. This most recent mass shooting brings...

"The social aspirations of man cannot attain full originality and full value, except in a society which respects man's personal in...

Love is the great union of the universe."  Theilhard de Chardin There is no subject in the world which arouses greater curiosity th...

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference." poet and writer, William Blake   Debilitating illness has plagued mankind as ...

"When you enter into my Kingdom." --Bible, Matthew Chapter 18 Many write, speak and think of the "kingdom of heaven" ...

"You cannot forgive yourself until you commit yourself to personal change."  Forgiving Yourself by Beverly Flannigan Both books...

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

"Happily...we have a solution. This is the mandorla... It is far too valuable a concept to have lost." Owning Your Own Shadow --...

"Then all of them together, crying loudly, moved to the malevolent shore that awaits anyone who has no fear of God." -- Inferno,...

"...the man is distinguished by the feminine elements." The Grail Legend by Emma Jung Continuing in the classic story of the Hol...