“Iola Pond” - A place I once lived
Weekly Tao Te Ching
CHAPTER 59
Humility is the essential quality for guiding our affairs. With it we never waste our power by trying to control events.
We don't take our goals as divinely inspired and never punish ourselves or others if they do not bear fruit.
We are able to use whatever happens, for the good, no matter what. No matter how complicated life seems to be, we don't become overwhelmed and lost. We care for all things with the natural ease of a mother caring for her child.
For the Great Mother lives in us.
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Weekly - Mirabai Starr
The line between genius and madness
“The greatest saints and mystics were plagued by all the same challenges the rest of us grapple with – often more so… The line between genius and madness has always been a fluid one. Radical gifts seem to be accompanied by equally potent imbalances. Many brilliant artists, poets, and spiritual leaders suffer from depression and substance abuse.”
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Weekly - Anthony de Mello
“Because left to its own devices life would never produce love, it would only lead you to attraction, from attraction to pleasure, then to attachment, to satisfaction, which finally leads to wearisomeness and boredom. Then comes a plateau. Then once again the weary cycle: attraction, pleasure, attachment, fulfillment, satisfaction, boredom. All of this mixed with the anxieties, the jealousies, the possessiveness, the sorrow, the pain, that make the cycle a roller coaster. When you have gone repeatedly around and around the cycle, a time finally comes when you have had enough and want to call a halt to the whole process. And if you are lucky enough not to run into something or someone else that catches your eye, you will have at least attained a fragile peace. That is the most that life can give you; and you can mistakenly equate this state with freedom and you die without ever having known what it means to be really free and to love.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
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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
“real life, even in its suffering, is much more deeply rewarding than imagined life.”
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Doodle of the Week (1)
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Weekly - Deng Ming Dao
“Adversity is the tempering of one’s mettle. Without it, we cannot know any true meaning in our accomplishments.”
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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
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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Weekly - Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence.”
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Doodle of the Week (2)
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Weekly - Richard Rohr
“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.”
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Weekly - Brian D. McLaren
“I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.”
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Keith’s Weekly Pick
Christ is self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love
~Brad Jersak
"Cranes, Pines, and Bamboo" by Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716)
