To follow it in chronological order, begin with Glenn.
While browsing in a chain bookstore I picked up a beautiful text featuring the world’s 100 most spiritual places. Leafing through it, I was startled to discover how many I’d visited. More than that, I’d knocked off nearly all the ones in places I’d travelled to. Until that day, I’d never really thought of myself [...]
Here’s something for "Perfection ", Peter. It’s a superbly spiritual passage from Mark Helprin, a writer whose fiction I love, though whose politics I loathe. Life hands out challenges like that, doesn’t it? Beauty is found in the most unusual places. Had I known his politics before having read most of his books, I might [...]
We are not sinful, shameful human creatures who have to somehow earn Spirituality. We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience.
~ Robert Burney
So I wonder at myself, again. I wonder when will I choose to live? Yes. I’m alive, I’m manifest in this corporeal form. I made that choice before I had a body to live in. I’m here, asking this question, because I made the choice to be alive. But I haven’t yet made the decision [...]
A rumination on Steely Dan’s "Green Book". (Lyrics )
A fantasy — the Green Book — a tome of loves had, and loves lost, and loves never known — and from them a conglomerate, a creation of iconic love, Marilyn 4.0…a vision of nostalgia that never was, before him, there, all Kiss Me Deadly.
My mind is [...]
Glad you understood and appreciate The Butterfly , Peter. I found this today on the 11:11 site, perhaps its timing is as pertinent
THE PATH OF EMERGENCY
If we continue walking on the crumbling road of duality, we will experience a continual state of emergency. If we are still working at a job we hate, it [...]
Some random thoughts on truth and being true…
I no longer put much stock in "the truth". That phrase predisposes us to notions of an objective reality (one that exists without imagination , one that is permanent, unchanging, eternal. Truth is a fiction established as fact through reason.
On the other hand, i put all my [...]
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