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Reflection for January 1, 2012:take me out to the ball game
“As long as I assume the world is something I discover by turning on the radio or looking out the window I am deceived from the start. As long as I imagine that the world is something to be ‘escaped’...
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Reflection for February 29, 2012: A meadow for gazelles
O marvel! A garden among the flames… My heart has become capable of all forms. It is a meadow for gazelles and a monastery for Christian monks, A temple for idols and pilgrim’s Ka’aba, The Tables of...
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Reflection for March 2, 2012: What is the use of Gnosis?
“As men’s Prayers are a Disease of the Will, so are their Creeds a disease of the Intellect.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson What is the use of gnosis, if it is so forbiddingly elitist? Since the alternatives...
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Christian Leaders Blast GOP Tax Bill: via HuffPost
Christian Leaders Blast GOP Tax Bill: via HuffPost http://huff.to/PAn9QQ Filed under: mysticism Tagged: 1 percent, greed, poor, republican, tax
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Reflection August 6, 2012: A hundred fathers and mothers
My mercy equals that of a hundred fathers and mothers; Every soul that is born is amazed thereat. Their mercy is as the foam of the sea of my mercy; It is mere foam of waves, but the sea abides ever!...
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Reflection September 27, 2012: Its power to recall its higher reality
The symbolism of a thing is its power to recall its higher reality, in the same way a reflection or shadow gives us a fleeting glimpse of the object that casts it; and the best symbols…are those things...
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Reflection for October 14, 2012: pure imagination
When we in the west speak of “basic facts of existence” we tend immediately to conceive these facts as reducible to certain austere and foolproof propositions – logical statements that are guaranteed...
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Reflection for December 11, 2012: Doing the right thing
Only by becoming hollow (empty of self through submission to the Divine Will) can the reed-pipe sound its plaint of love as the Breath of its Maker (the Breath of Compassion, nafas rahmani) blows...
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Reflection for Jan 31, 2013: Our Lady of Horsies
the waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own. It is not right to act and speak like men asleep. If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it....
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Reflection for February 24th 2013:THE universe is God’s book
Zen emptiness is not the emptiness of nothingness, but the emptiness of fullness in which this equation takes place: zero=infinity. The Godhead is no other than this equation. In other words when God...
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Reflection for May 25, 2013: …like moles
Revelation is a cloudburst, a downpour, yet most of us are like moles, burrowing, and whatever stream we meet is underground –Abraham Joshua Heschel Filed under: Abraham, alchemy, allegory, Apophatic,...
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Reflection for May 30, 2013: At the borders of speech
It is precisely the challenge involved in using inadequate words that drives the mind beyond all words… At the borders of speech we open ourselves to the positive value of silence…. Literary reading,...
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Reflection for June 16, 2013: The tree surrounded by four rivers
Soaring upwards Can be like reaching down Pushing forward Can be like pushing back Going right Can be like Going left Within is within All things begin And end at the cross roads –GraalBaum 2013...
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Reflection for July 20th, 2013: E I O A U
As Birth is Death Beginning and end, forever entwined, circling like a coiled oroboros When transcended, give LIFE. As knowledge is Wisdom Understood, believed experienced or transcended Knowledge...
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Reflection for August 5, 2013: Credo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewton_MendipChurch of St Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip In the Western world, a strong belief in the objective truths of religion, which are viewed as incontrovertible,...
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Reflection for August 6th, 2013: The imaginative life of humanity.
The same problem besets conventional science. ‘The intellectual effort to solve the mystery of the physical universe is in vain since the scientist is trying to separate himself from the universe. It...
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Reflection for August 7th, 2013: The greater must reveal itself to the lesser
If this metaphysical space is to be known, such knowledge can be attained only by faith and grace, not by ‘entering’ but by ‘being entered’ -this is so because the greater must reveal itself to the...
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Reflection for September 18, 2013: He took me down to the Jordan
I descended to the midst of the underworld, and I shone down upon the darkness. It is I who poured forth the water. It is I who am hidden within radiant waters. I am the one who gradually put forth the...
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Reflection for January 2nd, 2014:Brown Nosing into the new year
Lord, who made the lion and the lamb, You decreed I should be what I am; Would it spoil some vast eternal plan, If I were a wealthy man? …….. Permission is given to every human being. If one chooses to...
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Reflection for January 15, 2014:Families work the same way; no person is...
If only this did not relate to numerous people in my life at the moment… lol oh well, can’t change them, when it is their own internal battle, their own lack. A baby will eventually soil it’s diapers,...
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