“Iola Pond” - A place I once lived
Weekly Tao Te Ching
Chapter 70
The Tao is easy to see, easy to follow. Yet our minds are conditioned to see illusions and follow deceptions.
The Tao is too simple, too clear. There must be a better way. But Tao lives in and as all things.
All we need to do is see.
🛎 William Martin’s Website/ His Books📚
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Weekly - Mirabai Starr
“This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway. Step around the poisonous vipers that slither at your feet, attempting to throw you off your course. Be bold. Be humble. Put away the incense and forget the incantations they taught you. Ask no permission from the authorities. Slip away. Close your eyes and follow your breath to the still place that leads to the invisible path that leads you home.”
Anthony de Mello
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts -- generally somebody else's -- mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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Weekly - Alan Watts
“For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.”
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Weekly - William Paul Young
“Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.”
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Doodle of the Week (1)
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Weekly - Deng Ming Dao
““It is best to realize the transitory nature of things and work with it. Understanding the world’s ephemeral nature can be the biggest advantage of all.”
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Weekly - Peter Rollins
“What if Jesus was not offering his followers an ethical system to follow, but rather was inviting them to enter into a life of love that transcends ethics, a life of liberty that dwells beyond religious laws? The difference between following an ethical system and being consumed by love can be seen in the way that ethical systems seek to provide a way to work out what needs to be done so that it can be carried out. In contrast, love is never constrained, it never sits back, it always seeks to do more than what is demanded of it.”
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Weekly - Maya Angelou
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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Weekly - Christian Mystics
Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.
~Gregory of Nyssa
🛎 Various Websites
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Doodle of the Week (2)
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Weekly - Richard Rohr
“When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE”
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Weekly - Brian D. McLaren
“Jesus called disciples so He could send them out as apostles. They were called together to learn so they could be sent out to teach and serve.”
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Keith’s Weekly Pick
"That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of ALL people, and especially of those who believe.” (1 Timothy 4:10)
"Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo" by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)
