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I ws not really surprised to hear abut Mother Teresa's doubts and struggles. Virtually every saint who has written extensively has recorded such struggles and dark priods, the classic example perhaps being St. John of the Cross' The Dark Night of the Soul . I choose to believe that God, being Father...

Nice quote. True, in the sense that trying to "locate" God anywhere in "the world we see" is trying kto localize what is infinite. Yet I think that in another sense He most assurdly IS on the Cross, and in the Hindu temple, and in the Kaaba, because He must be: He cannot be "...

Thank you both ... these responses are extremely helpful! Perhaps I am making too complicated what is in fact too simple to be easy. In any case, now I feel I can "address" Mother by whatever name is working at the moment (currently, Rama expresses what I am learning about God at the momen...

I just had the eerie experience of reading my own comments in a thread dated February 2005 on a subject I've been bothered by lately, the subject of prayer. I was in that thread defending duality, and in hindsight see that I was hovering at the cusp of a journey into evangelical/fundamentalist Chris...

I understand what you are telling me, Stefan, and I am not resisting it at all. My attachment to Jesus is no longer to Him as a person but to the Christ Whom He mediated to us, the same Christ who is the "ocean" in every human, animate "wave" (borrowing Butterworth's analogy). I ...

I know whay you mean about ACIM. There's a sort of progression of response that many (not all) of us go through with ACIM, almost in this same order: delight ... amazement ... discomfort ... fear ... resistance ... violent resistance ... acceptance ... liberation ... delight. What ACIM has done for ...

The problem I have with this idea is in the idea that the One Who Is "has" a name at all. Asked about it by Moses, He simply identified Himself as "I AM." Every "name" for The one minimizes The One; each name is a tribal designation, whether it is Allah, or Yahweh, or s...

" On the other hand, if you are saying that the Gospels Teacher has been the most important Teacher to seekers in the West, then I can only repeat what I have said before: I believe strongly that no seeker can say with certainty who or what is the most important Teacher for any other seeker at ...

" Thus, when I read that first sentence in John, what I hear in my mind is, “In the beginning was the Concept of Creation, and the Concept of Creation was with God, and the Concept of Creation was God ”. I could hardly agree more, though I might go a bit further ... because I think the "lo...

" I've been puzzled by the lack of his childhood and I also was very shocked to find that the entire beginning of Christianity was started by Paul, who was not even a disciple. How could this not bother us? This doesn't even make sense to me. I could never get past this ." Paul is only a p...

"So what is a different perspective on Jesus? Is this in the book, or is this what ACIM is for?" I've been rather preoccupied with this same question lately; I am "fresh out of" evangelical Christianity, with its exclusive claim on Jesus, and yet to me Jesus is sitll The Teacher,...

" The idea that Satan is a “fallen” angel has never made any sense to me " ...or to me, though I tried very hard to embrace the traditional Christian concept of Satan. The idea of Satan as a fallen archangel is based primarily upon Ezekiel 28 ("You were blameless in your ways from the...

THE PRODIGAL I: Leaving home They tell me He is dead; you say it, now, and frown. It crossed your mind before, a thousand times before, as it did mine. We knew that He would die, He was so old and tired of living. Still, the news is hard, flinting a light of anger in us, lodged in our darkness. The...

" How can I watch the suffering in our world and say, Oh that is God entertaining herself. That takes away the God that Loves and replaces it with an uncaring God ." So it seems. I often stub my toe on this one as well. But not so much any more, as it begins to dawn upon my tiny little min...

I see what you are saying, ZF, and I am glad to have another way of looking at the issue of fear. One thing manifesting many ways, like H 2 O manifesting as steam, ice and water, looking and feeling different but really the same thing. "Death" is not really one of my bugaboos, at least not...