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100 Things I Know #3 – Sacrifice (Somehow) Is At The Heart of Love
Love is the pursuit of the highest good of and for the other. (It was Thomas Merton’s work that first gave me these words.) This must necessarily come into conflict with our own desires and pursuits....
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Disappearing Lines
“Since sensationalism, power, and wealth dominate our cultural imaginations, we may not be willing to journey to the ephemeral, as the Japanese poets of old have, to see beauty in the disappearing...
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100 Things I Know #5 – Meaning Will Not Be Found. It Must Be Made.
Though we stumble upon moments when our lives cohere and suddenly all the our experiences make sense, and these moments often feel as if we’ve discovered an empirical reality that was there all along,...
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100 Things I Know #9 – Time Doesn’t Come Back
Much about time is mysterious, and there are clues that time perhaps does not work as we think it does. Perhaps past, present, and future are all ever present in some fashion quantum physics hints...
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100 Things I Know #15 – Negative Energy Does Me No Good
Granted, some people argue that negative thought can smoke out the problems, prevent illusionary thinking, and generally give a more realistic view of the world. However, negative energy and negative...
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100 Things I Know #1- Some Things Are Real
Reality, some say, is constructed. Others claim things are there regardless of our perceptions. It’s both. Consider the recent Jupiter-Venus conjunction. Our perception on recent nights is that...
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100 Things I Know #8 – Something Is Wrong
This is not rocket science. Murder, rape, theft, betrayal, lying, abuse, racism, injustice, war…make your own list. These actions and institutions feel wrong to us. They seem so “not right.”...
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100 Things I Know #11 – We Are Not Gods.
Death will prove this to us. A broken tooth will prove it. We control very little. Our own minds muster up armies of thought against us. We are multiple inside, one part taskmaster, one part...
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100 Things I Know #17 – I Know I Don’t Know What It Means To Be Black In America
Let me say it again, just to be clear. I know that I don’t know what it means to be black in America. That’s an awkward way to say it. Here’s what I mean. § I am white, and I am privileged. And...
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100 Things I Know #18 – There Is A Call in Beauty
Beauty is real. We argue over its subjectivity and objectivity, but in both concept and experience, the presence of something we call Beauty is undeniable. The experience of Beauty stirs us, speaks...
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100 Things I Know #13 – Grace is Necessary, Present, and Uncontrollable
Grace is necessary. We can achieve by ourselves, thank you very much. If we’re in need of repair (which we are, given that Something Is Wrong), we can also fix ourselves. We have capacities to...
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“Insulated By Thick Layers of Insensibility”
“Where men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be greater sharing and a more genuine communion. But this is not communion, only immersion in the general meaninglessness of...
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100 Things I Know #2 – There Must Be Something Larger Than Us
My reading in the Bible’s Psalms this morning contained passages in which the writer described our lives as smoke, and, whether rich or poor, our years as a breath. Believer and atheist alike can...
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Music: A New Venture
It’s a real thing: I’ve recorded an EP (thanks to Nickels Hawkeye!), and it’s almost out there. It’s called GOTTA GO ON, and there are five tracks available. Nickels was great to work with and did...
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I’m Not Lazy…Am I?
“Lazy” is a sticky label. The word is annoyingly accurate, an on-target description of those moments when we possess the energy and capacity to do something worthwhile, and though there’s nothing...
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How To Be Inspired, Even When You’re Depressed
Photo by Calum MacAulay via Unsplash I was born in May, but the spiritual weather that day must have been bone cold. Depression’s an old buddy of mine, and many mornings I wake to find myself in a...
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