“Iola Pond” - A place I once lived
Weekly Tao Te Ching
CHAPTER 57
People use plans, plain or hidden, to gain their objectives. But the very best success comes from letting go of plans.
Life lives itself. Rules limit life. Weapons destroy life. Cunning plots backfire. Striving for security leads to fear.
Stop trying to improve yourself and find that you naturally improve. Stop trying to change the world, and find that it naturally changes. Stop trying to be good and holy, and find that your heart is pure. Stop trying to gather things, and find that you already have everything.
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Weekly - Mirabai Starr
The gift of being in the present moment
“To live a contemplative life means to consciously put aside the thousand demands of the world and offer ourselves the gift of being in the present moment, alert to the signs of the sacred that are breaking through everywhere, always…”
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Weekly - Anthony de Mello
“There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.”
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Weekly - Alan Watts
“Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.”
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Weekly - William Paul Young
“Instead of a list of priorities, Jesus introduced us to something completely different: a moving, dynamic, living relationship in which God is not first, but central. This is not a flowchart, but rather a mobile where everything is moving and changing as our choices and participation are woven inside the activity of the Holy Spirit. Lists are about control and performance; God is about adventure and trust. If God is at the center of our lives, then so is love and relationship, since God is profoundly both.”
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Doodle of the Week (1)
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Weekly - Deng Ming Dao
“Tradition is first. Mercy is greater than tradition. Wisdom is greater than mercy.”
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Weekly - Peter Rollins
“For those within the emerging conversation this a/theology is not a way of understanding God and neither is it simply the result of filtering God through our minds in order for God to be provisionally understood. Rather, our a/theology should be thought of as a dark glass which protects God from being spoken, which responds to and returns to the love of God, and which encourages others to seek God for themselves. God is not revealed via our words but rather via the life of the transformed individual.”
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Weekly - Maya Angelou
I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love.
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Weekly - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”
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Doodle of the Week (2)
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Weekly - Richard Rohr
“Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.”
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Weekly - Brian D. McLaren
“Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.”
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Keith’s Weekly Pick
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
~Simone Weil
"Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo" by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)
