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letting go of non-essentials

March 27, 2008

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“Several years ago in one of our leadership workshops, a Jamaican man from the World Bank named Fred told a story that moved people very deeply. A few years earlier he had been diagnosed with a terminal disease. After consulting a number of doctors, who all confirmed the diagnosis, he went through what everyone does […]

thinking about easter

March 20, 2008

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On cultural assumptions, and the life of Christ The religious thinking of the day, prior to Jesus’ coming was that the Messiah, King of the Jews, would come and immediately reign on earth over an earthly kingdom. People were looking for pomp and circumstance, a display of power, and victory over enemies. Isn’t that the […]

finding my place

March 7, 2008

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I just volunteered at our church for the Interfaith Hospitality Network, a local organization that coordinates churches to house homeless families for a week at a time. That’s the sort of thing that puts me in my place. If is weren’t for friends and family, I could be there. But what spirits. One guy did […]

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I have NO interest in convincing others to think in any certain way. Anything I post is simply something to think about. Everything I post is continually progressing and evolving so expect nothing to be static and all to dynamic. So don’t hold me to it. Just take it or leave it. But…
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1) That we all think and do what we know down deep is the right thing
2) That we all honor and respect that in others
3) That we all seek to understand more than to be understood.

HISTORY OF THE HEART

“Even the longest, most detailed, and most expressive obituaries always omit the essence of a life: the history of a person’s heart. How many of us wish we had asked more questions of someone we loved, not about what happened and when but about the inner experience of being that person? About hopes and fulfillments, failures and regrets? About moments of despair and moments of meaning?” (Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy)

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(2.0) version is my inner work of systematic deconstruction, deconversion, uprooting, and dredging up a lifetime of deep-seated conditioning, ingrained beliefs, and dogma; discerning trash from treasures and thoughtfully reconstructing a world and life view that reflects the shape of my heart. As I go deeper and beyond, answers fade into questions, certainty into uncertainty, knowing into unknowing.

Discover the truth wherever it may be found.

Refine the truth within through the fire of discernment.

Follow the truth wherever it may take you.

Remember what you already know.

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” (Rumi)

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” (Rumi) 

“I asked myself, ‘What is the myth you are living?’ and found that I did not know. So… I took it upon myself to get to know my myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks… I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me.” (Carl Jung)

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life,
and you will call it fate.”
(Carl Jung)

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