• Many and One

    It’s not many beings each living

    their own lives.

    It’s one being

    living many lives.

    It’s not many eyes

    seeing the One.

    It’s the One

    seeing through many eyes.

    It’s not many voices

    joined in a single chorus.

    It’s one voice

    sung through many mouths.

    When One becomes many

    And the many no longer

    share a single life,

    when they no longer

    see themselves as one,

    or sing with a common voice,

    it […]

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  • Masks

    You were kings and jesters, explorers and whores, but mostly, you were poor, common, ignorant, faithful and faithless.  You believed in the reality of your Maker, and in odds alone.  You sought nothing but pleasure in a world without tomorrows and yet looked only to heaven.  So many masks you wore.  And yet, priest or […]

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  • The Stakes Are Nothing

    If the part is a representation of the whole, and each life form is, in a sense, a holon of God, then the orders of magnitude and classifications of life schemes are, in essence, meaningless.  One effect of this is that it doesn’t matter whether someone has squashed a jumping spider or committed crimes against […]

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  • Disappointment = Expectations minus Reality

    I’m a disappointed idealist, and those are the worst kind.  The consequence of my faded optimism is disillusionment, coupled with an inevitable bitterness.  I hold myself to high standards.  I try not to lie or cheat or steal.  I try to hold open the door for somebody else, and let the other guy go first […]

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  • No Such Monster as Evil

     

    I really don’t believe in evil.  If anyone or anything is evil, then the rest of us have to decide what that is.  To believe in the concept of evil presupposes that we can detect it in our world, and that we can separate good from evil. The concept of evil thus conditions us to […]

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  • Overcoming Karma

    The idea of karma as cold, inescapable fate is tempered by the idea of forgiveness.  As soon as I can forgive – myself, everyone else, what I see the world as – I’m released and I release myself from the karmic hold of past deeds, thoughts and words.  I’m reminded of the words of Francis […]

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  • Parts and Wholes

    Walking through the woods one autumn afternoon, through air cleansed by rain.  Everything silent.  The year old, yet everything new.  A parade of squirrels — one black, one gray, one red— played crack-the-whip through the leaf litter, winding up a tree, then back down again like a snake coiling.  Down at the river, sun echoed […]

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  • Science is the Knowledge of God

    Science has already synthesized with its ostensible opposites, religion and mystic knowing.  Rather than rolling back the mystery of creation and allowing miracles to recede as the unexplained becomes scientifically known, perhaps the deity works through science as it once communed with us through revelation and met us in mystery.  The mind of Atman is […]

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  • Squandering the Moment in Sleep

    We are, each of us, a unique, one-time expression, the whorls on the tip of a finger.  What a glorious, untried experiment a person is, each time one is born.  And there you are, trying to be like everybody else.

    You are a mayfly.  You live just one day.  And that day shall never be repeated.

    Most moments […]

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  • Believing is Seeing

    Let’s face it – to believe in God, to believe in anything beyond what our senses tell us, in something that exists beyond the body, that survives death – is a choice.  There is ultimately, no proof of it.  I can make inferences based on hypotheses like intelligent design, which infers statistically the existence of […]

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