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Here’s an image I share because I’m trying to look for images that I think can be so helpful. Metaphors can’t be explained, but they are like Jesus’ parables or koans; you can sense in a story or an image a realization that you can’t explain.
One of the images that I like from Meister Eckhart is when he says, “Imagine that you’re looking at a full-l
... See moreGenerations of Christians seem to have forgotten Jesus’ teachings on nonviolence. We’ve relegated visions of a peaceful kingdom to a far distant heaven, hardly believing Jesus could have meant for us to turn the other cheek here and now.
Nonviolence Is an Act of Love
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“I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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Rumi
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
―
Rumi
A quote by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
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“We writers are the raw nerve of the universe. Our job is to go out and feel things for people, then to come back and tell them how it feels to be alive. Because they are numb. Because we have forgotten.”
Luis Alberto Urrea • Tolfink Was Here: On Ursula K. Le Guin and Me
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Years ago, someone asked me: if I could have any superpower I wanted, what would I choose? I said I’d choose the power to have people drop their masks and be real with me. Turns out this is a real superpower anyone can cultivate. It starts by dropping your own mask.
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“The part of yourself that you’re holding back from the relationship, is the part of yourself that needs to be healed in the relationship.”
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[And I remember she told me once, I’ll never forget this, she said, “Look, Zen is just being present in the moment. That’s all, being fully present to what is.” She said, “This is Zen.” But she said, “But then sometimes you lose that, and you’re not present in the moment. And so Zen is just noticing that you’ve lost it and just coming back. And tha
... See moreHow long is the conversation of love?
Nothing less than everlasting would be enough. Not all loves do endure, but it is essential to love that we believe it will, that we want it to, because an orientation toward eternity is part and parcel of what it is to have fai
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“Time is nature’s way to keep everything from happening all at once.”
The Grand Illusion | Jim Holt
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