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- December 11th, 2008, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Nancy's Blog
- Topic: Living Life Rightly (08/17/08)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 24051
Re: Living Life Rightly (08/17/08)
Anna, all that you say speaks to me. I remember your telling me once that we don't experience the highs or lows of life as we surrender to what IS, to all of what IS. I don't know what That IS anymore and I don't care. What strikes me is that I still have the feelings that engender sorrow, joy, pain...
- June 2nd, 2007, 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Recognizing the familiar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8552
Stefan, you asked the following question in recognizing the familiar: Suppose we had only very short term memory, and every event, every thought, everyone and everything in every encounter, was brand new? I help to care for a woman who has dementia, and each day is brand new to her. Although she som...
- November 14th, 2005, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Disasters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25140
- November 12th, 2005, 4:56 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Disasters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25140
In addition to universal love, I'd also add acceptance of disasters, suffering, and death as a part of all life on earth. For me, it's difficult to pull a carrot or beet from the soil. It gives its life so that Bhakti may live on until her death, but it's hard to accept that this is the physical lif...
- November 12th, 2005, 4:49 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Disasters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25140
Disasters
I'll be heading down to New Orleans soon to help family, friends, and others get settled into their old or new homes, whichever the case. I think that seeing the devastation there will be as close as I'll come to a war zone or to poverty stricken areas like Pakistan or Somalia. In this country, desp...
- August 28th, 2005, 4:44 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: What can I say?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 22612
- August 23rd, 2005, 11:30 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Looking past the Person
- Replies: 23
- Views: 85452
- August 9th, 2005, 5:30 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Looking past the Person
- Replies: 23
- Views: 85452
- August 2nd, 2005, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Looking past the Person
- Replies: 23
- Views: 85452
In the course of this forum on Looking Past the Person, Michael asked at one point “Am I getting up on a soapbox?” I don’t know whether he is or not, and it doesn’t matter one way or the other. Sometimes I find our discussions philosophically and theologically heady and not practical. Waxing philoso...
- July 24th, 2005, 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Is there any point to disease?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 21911
- July 24th, 2005, 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: Who said this?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 20810
Anna has said: To stand in the presence of an individual who is willing to put it straight to you, must be both refreshing and terrifying at the same time. But to contrast his blunt and often painful discourse, the Sufi insists that whatever one does or says, one must not hurt the feelings of anothe...
- July 24th, 2005, 2:48 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Jesus: Rebel with a Cause
- Replies: 9
- Views: 46280
- July 14th, 2005, 3:35 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Jesus: Rebel with a Cause
- Replies: 9
- Views: 46280
- June 21st, 2005, 7:38 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Jesus: Rebel with a Cause
- Replies: 9
- Views: 46280
Jesus: Rebel with a Cause
I recently read a series of articles in Utne entitled "The Future of God." In one artcle called "Heaven Can't Wait," David Schimke says: The Jesus they [my family] taught me about lived and died in the name of justice, in the spriit of peace. He was an anti-establishment activist...
- June 10th, 2005, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Green Fields
- Topic: Whatever happened to graciousness?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21859
Anna, we recently had some friends visiting from Australia. They were amazed and bewildered by how polite and friendly Maine people are. With construction or a line of building traffic, people would wave them to pass, for example. Our friends had problems with their rental car, and the company gave ...