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meaning and purpose

June 9, 2013

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“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” ― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation “Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to […]

Journaling the Journey

February 21, 2013

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I do not write because I understand. I write in order to understand. Writing for me has become a deeply transformational spiritual discipline. For me, it is mapping a journey . . . When I started writing, little did I know what the future had in store . . . a deep and excruciating depression, […]

The Essence of Life: Who? Why? What?

April 21, 2012

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“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.” (Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak) What is life all about? What are the essentials? What are the non-essentials? When I drill down to the core of my existence here on earth, what is […]

what is meaning?

August 17, 2011

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“Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who spent the years 1942-45 in four different Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz.  By the end of the war his pregnant wife, his parents and his brother had been murdered; among his immediate family, only he and his sister survived.  After the war he published Man’s Search for Meaning, […]

ground of being

November 19, 2008

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What is the direction of our striving? What do we spend ourselves on? We arise in the morning and toil until we are weary to the bone. Then we fall in bed, hoping for sleep, so we can do it again the next day. If we are lucky, our endless striving brings us upward, advancing […]

OPEN HANDS are an expression of an open mind, open heart, and open will

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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…
I AM interested in these three things:
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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