"Man as we encounter him is an automaton. His thoughts, feelings, and deeds are little more than mechanical reactions to external and internal stimuli. He...
The hardest thing was to say all the well-known lines-The Lord's Prayer, the Sermon on the Mount-as if they had never been said before. Max von Sydow...
Hi Bob, I think you have nailed where Ken and Dano are coming from. Dano feels the thrill of the righteous/authoritative ego, similar to a bible-thumping...
When you understand that the depths exist for you to see so that you can understand the depths of God's life in you, you're not resisting the lessons of life...
Unhelpful advice builds up the self, but does tremendous harm to the ignorant . Remorse,guilt , and painful strategies of repressing and forgiveness, are tools...
.....once again at an AA speaker's meeting just two doors up the street this evening. And thick skulls like mine still needs reminders from time to time. ...
Bob and Peter: In the past few minutes I have been listening to a talk by Guy Finley where a Catholic priest secretly writes him asking for advice. The priest...
Hi Bob, been reading your posts at the K site and you wrote about "climbing a mountain," which made me think of a recent letter I wrote to friend/site...
Hello all, Here is an approach to inquiry into our daily living, which - in case of interest - I would share: Text/teaching: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/ As...
"Do you know what eternal life is? You think it's everlasting life. But your own theologians will tell you that that is crazy, because everlasting is still...
1. Willingness to give up all forms of having, in order to fully be. 2. Security, sense of identity, and confidence based on faith in what one is, on one's...
Some thoughts from Erich Fromm: "The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity." ...
Bob and Peter, I thought you might be interested in some of the exchanges I've been having with a poster at another site. I haven't discussed this here, but we...
"Love is the most dangerous and uncertain element in life; and because we do not want to be uncertain, because we do not want to be in danger, we live in the...
"Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from...
Bob, after reading your posts at the K-site about where to live in safety after a worldwide nuclear war, I think you have to consider a few things. Science can...
I wonder if anyone on the list has read The Denial of Death, that excellent book by Ernest Becker? It is quite some time now since I first read it but it is a...
Some thoughts from Meister Eckhart: We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all...
YouTube spÒÓk house TOR's latest YouTube presentation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-VdgMvhOo If you dig that, be sure to view TOR's other YouTube films....
Time Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town ...
How many Zen masters does it take to change a lightbulb? Four. One to change it, one to not change it , one to both change it and not change it, one to neither...
"To use a finite lifetime to worry and grieve over the chaos of the world is like weeping into a river to increase its water in fear of its drying up. Those...
Eight Steps Towards A New Life.....by Vernon Howard 1. A deep, personal confusion and anguish. 2. A wish and a search for something different. 3. False trails,...
Twelve Steps To A New Life (to a "New and Wonderful World")...Bill W. 1. We admitted we were powerless over our problems and behaviors — that our lives had...
"What is wanted to-day is action. A sword must be put into us. This is the truest compassion. Compassion must hurt if it is to rouse the Divinity within. You...
"The manner in which our brain moves depends on the thoughts we think. That is just the opposite of what the materialists believe. If you wish to know how...
