“Iola Pond” - A place I once lived
Weekly Tao Te Ching
CHAPTER 56
The more we understand the Tao, the less we need to speak of it. The more we speak of it, the less we understand.
Stay silent. Stop listening to trivia. Stop taking offense. Stop over-thinking.
Become as simple part of All That Is. This way, we are undisturbed by success or failure, and live a life of true fulfillment.
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Weekly - Mirabai Starr
The technological world
“What is it in the psyche of the human family that now so deeply yearns for the Divine Feminine? Why has She been shunned, ridiculed, and buried alive for millennia? Perhaps by revitalizing our relationship with the Holy She, in the form of Mother, of Lover, of most intimate female Friend, we may unfold the treasure map that leads to the resources we need to heal the ravaged planet and all who dwell on her. Tribal peoples have always understood the sacred nature of Mother Earth, but the technological world, in losing its connection with the land, has lost its connection to the Feminine. It’s time to reclaim our birthright.”
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Weekly - Anthony de Mello
“And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?”
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Weekly - Alan Watts
“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.”
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Weekly - William Paul Young
“From now on we no longer judge any person according to the flesh” (2 Corinthians 5:16). We don’t judge anyone by how he or she is stuck or broken or lost, but see each person for who he or she is—the one the Holy Spirit finds and celebrates, the one Jesus leaves the ninety-nine to go find, the one the Father waits to welcome home.”
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Doodle of the Week (1)
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Weekly - Deng Ming Dao
“A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.”
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Weekly - Peter Rollins
“Instead of finding unity in our position as infants basking in a shared love of the same revelation, we are splintered by the emphasis we illegitimately place upon our interpretation of the revelation. Just as a painting we love will speak to us in different ways at different times (hence the need to return to the art that we love rather than being satisfied by seeing it once), so the revelation of God will speak in multiple ways depending upon the context within which we read it and into which it speaks.”
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Weekly - Maya Angelou
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with i.
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Weekly - Thich Nhat Hanh
"The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.”
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Doodle of the Week (2)
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Weekly - Richard Rohr
“...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”
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Weekly - Brian D. McLaren
“Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.”
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Keith’s Weekly Pick
We are of Light, returning to Light, to become Light. It is in all humans to be illuminative. Look at any baby— and all pregnant women: and without question they glow. This is but one sliver of Life’s beautiful mystery unveiled.
~Unknown
"Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo" by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)
