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Or as Elsa Joy Bailey wrote:
We are breathed by God

As the New Testament teacher put it, we cannot serve two masters. Once we have begun this spiritual unfolding, this quest for Truth, nothing less will suffice nor really feel right than a determination to see it through to the end, whatever the cost - and in a this-world sense, the cost is high, in...

I would replace Mr Russell's choice of words stupid/clever to ignorant/enlightened.

I completely agree with this thought and I would apply this to some of the most absurd beliefs and actions that have been acredited to God, Jesus and the Bible.

Paul writes, “When I was a child, I thought like a child … when I became a man, I gave up childish ways”. Notice, he does not suggest there is anything wrong with childish ways, just that they are appropriate for children and inappropriate for adults. In other words, as long as our definition of Go...

"God is not in us in the sense that a raisin is in a bun; He is in us as the ocean is in a wave." Art, this is exactly where I'm at and the transition that I'm struggling with. Maybe the raisin in the bun is simply coming from trying to understand the Great Spirit in a more concrete way, o...

I have also read all of this article. I think I need to read again, because I didn't come away with a clear understanding, too much is still mushing around in my head. Oh, please also note, Stefan, that nowhere above did I say that, "I wanted to thank you...," I simply did so. Gad, how it ...

My question tonight, that is keeping me awake is this. The 'riddle' of Jesus is fully human and fully God. Is this very answerable from a different 'sight'? Jesus=fully human Jesus = fully God So, fully God = fully human? Is this what Jesus was telling us? I'm not well enough versed in the Bible to ...

The reason I was so drawn to this essay is the triadic foundation of it. This is what I first learned and how I started on my more deeper spiritual path. The idea that we are more than our thoughts and emotions, which make up our ego, and that we have a heart or third part of us that enables us to u...

The idea of a Zen koan and what Zoofence wrote is good stuff. I've been mulling it around most of the day and then happened onto this from http://www.spiritualsisters.com. The Three Levels of Existence Now it is a paradox of human life, often observed even by the most concrete and unimaginative of p...

I will check out Wind in the Willows from the library. I'm not sure if I've read this or not, but looking forward to it. I would very much like to hear what others think of Pan's Labrynith. It has violence in it, which I usually will never watch, but I couldn't stop watching this one. Thanks for ano...

Here's Muggeridge on groups: Those who set out for it alone will reach it together and those who seek it in company will perish by themselves. That's a cool quote. It addresses the brain twist I used to get when I first started learning about shedding the ego. The need to step away from the crowd a...

Gulliver, I agree with your observation of the need to stand apart from the crowd. Simone Weil wrote a lot about the 'collective' ---I particularly like this passage from Simone Weil Reader: "Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only posible between two or three. As soon as ther...

When you get to an understanding of God as the ultimate ground of all Being, infinte, eternal, unchangeable, then endless debates about what He may or may not do with any particular individual become moot. They are shown to be mere intellectual exercises, ego-motivated. Art, I think you have said i...

ZooFence wrote: The more I think about it, the more I subscribe to Nisargadatta’s suggestion that it is all about sensory experience. The Infinite One, being all there is, cannot experience sight, touch, taste, and so on, cannot enjoy relationship, cannot feel joy, fear, dread, love, and so on. And ...

I have attempted, but I just can't succeed in seeing the world around us as something I've created with my thoughts or something that is not real. I also cannot really find a benefit in this view. It feels like a forced view that I'm questioning something that doesn't lend itself to needing to be qu...