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Archive for October, 2005

Thoughtsea

Monday, October 31st, 2005 Posted in Mind, Quick Thoughts, Spirituality | Comments Off

Isn't it amazing, that we live in a sea of ideas, interpretations, associations, and identifications—an ocean of superflous thoughts—when all we need is to live? And I probably do it more than most. How wonderful are those moments when the noise ...

Being human being

Thursday, October 27th, 2005 Posted in Spirituality | Comments Off

My teacher often points out that the Spirit seeks embodiment. "Being a human is such a wonderful thing, everyone's trying to do it, even God!" Tonight, he said that all God wants is a human being. That's what the Creator ...

Citizen of a country or a Kingdom?

Thursday, October 20th, 2005 Posted in Mind, Peace and Justice | Comments Off

It occurs to me, that practically speaking, the Church has neither the interest in, nor the ability to further Jesus' mission of helping people to realize the Kingdom of the Father. No matter what its stated purpose is, the de ...

Tolle does it again

Saturday, October 15th, 2005 Posted in Books, Spirituality | Comments Off

Eckhart Tolle, author of the spiritual bestseller The Power of Now has a new book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, on the bookshelves. I've just started it, so it might be a little while before I can ...

i is imaginary

Friday, October 14th, 2005 Posted in Mind, Spirituality | Comments Off

It's a strange quirk of the English language that we capitalize the pronoun I. We don't capitalize we, nor you, as the Germans do with Sie. Capitalization is a degree of honor in English. We give names the honor of ...

Declining the Invitation

Thursday, October 6th, 2005 Posted in My Life, Spirituality | Comments Off

I seem to have learned something very valuable: to decline certain negative invitations. For instance, I've had migraines since puberty, but now when the first stage hits—visual disturbances, flashing lights, stuff like that—I have the ability to refuse the pain ...

The Navigator: a medićval odyssey

Monday, October 3rd, 2005 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | Comments Off

The Navigator (New Zealand, 1988) is a wonderful little spi-fi (spiritual fiction) gem. Great movies aren't always "masterpieces"— the big, conspicuously-wrought if not over-wrought works. There are also gems—small films on tiny budgets that pack more meaning and feeling ...

Cats

Monday, October 3rd, 2005 Posted in Quick Thoughts | Comments Off

Cats have no sense of fair play when they're hungry and you're sleepy.

Seen on the Web

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005 Posted in Humor, Seen on the Web, Spirituality | Comments Off

Sometimes there's nothing better to share than what others have been sharing: I've encountered an exceptionally beautiful blog, (some of you know it already), that of Sadiq Alam. The title is "Inspirations and Creative Thoughts, and the address is mysticsaint.blogspot.com, both ...