“Iola Pond” - A place I once lived
Weekly Tao Te Ching
Chapter 61
A nation centered in the Tao is a place of welcome for all people.
It offers tranquility in place of restlessness, and peace in place of conflict.
It admits its mistakes and swiftly corrects them.
It honors those who point out its faults and turns its enemies into friends.
Its humility and benevolence illumine the world.
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Weekly - Mirabai Starr
Rest in your groundedness
“So don’t do anything fancy. Just rest in your groundedness and witness what happens. Be willing not to know…”
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Weekly - Anthony de Mello
“The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.”
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Weekly - Alan Watts
“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
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Weekly - William Paul Young
“I may have convinced myself or been convinced by others that I deserve to be separated from God. Such lies will bring with them a shadow in which I experience a sense of separation, feelings that seem to validate the illusion that God is not connected and in relationship with me or that God has stopped loving me or has given up on me. Many of us on the planet live in this illusion now.”
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Doodle of the Week (1)
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Weekly - Deng Ming Dao
“If you hold a real weapon in your hand, you will feel its character strongly. It begs to be used. It is fearsome. Its only purpose is death, and its power is not just in the material from which it is made but also from the intention of its makers.”
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Weekly - Peter Rollins
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.
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Weekly - Maya Angelou
Suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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Weekly - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Happiness does not come from consumption of things.”
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Doodle of the Week (2)
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Weekly - Richard Rohr
“There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.”
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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
Sometimes the answer to your deepest prayer isn't a shinier life, but the gentle demolition of the one that could never hold your real heart.
~Jeannie Zandi
"Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo" by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)
