Consider a flame:
Watch the fire. See the flames licking up, beautiful in their infinite variety, reds, yellows, with other subtle colors and shades shining forth, coming, going, flickering, flaring up and fading away.
Does our flame have a soul? Was this flame born for a special purpose? Does it strive through its brief life [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Afternoon Meditation
Posted in Reality, belief, love, meditation, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monsters of the Mind: Monsters of the Id
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My standard disclaimer applies.
In the 1950’s-era movie “Forbidden Planet” (the first really good sci-fi movie, in my opinion), the crew members of a newly-landed spaceship are being killed by vicious, invisible, powerful, nearly unstoppable monsters. (Warning: plot spoiler ahead) These monsters turn out to be the creations of an immensely powerful machine left [...]
Sorting it Out VI: Dancing with Authority
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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For me, awareness of the Mystery includes this huge, pervasive aura of impersonal compassion, a river of love that flows ever on in its incomprehensible way. No face, no name, just pervasive presence, awareness, kind and compassionate, watching while we act out our innumerable dramas, perhaps giving and receiving from us, [...]
Sorting it Out V: Approaching the Mystery
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, religion, seeking, self-help, spirituality on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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The area I feel myself moving into is hard for me to express; it’s hard for me to think about just laying it out there as I see it. I’m thinking it may take me several days — or weeks. I’m afraid of saying things that might upset someone I love, of [...]
Morning Meditation
Posted in Reality, belief, love, musings, mysticism, relationship, self-help, spirituality on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have the desire to run to an authority for answers,
we assume that our stored knowledge is itself authority,
and we are afraid of challenging that alleged authority.
We often care more for being right than for love and life.
~ River Flows
I’m frustrated, just now, with the slow process of putting down streams of words, trying to [...]
