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Love your enemy – Part Trois
Yes, I know that the Boston Marathon bomber caused terrible death, injury, mayhem, and a huge cost for all that was done to find him… But I find in myself a concern for his well-being. I hope he recovers and … Continue reading
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Love your enemy – Part Deux
Is it easier to forgive someone if they’re nuts? I suspect it is. I think the (self-identified) Joker, who killed 12 and wounded 58 is nuts. Insane. Just like Brevik who killed many in Norway. Indeed one wonders if the … Continue reading
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If they don’t come, we also welcome them.
genkakukigen, who describes himself as “an old, fat and lazy Zen Buddhist,” told this brief story about his Zen teacher: I once asked my Zen teacher why he didn’t make greater efforts to attract newcomers to the center he ran … Continue reading
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Islamic Heart Work
Like a poem. A gift from the heart of Omid Safi. Whose written word set fire to my own heart: In a cool mountain night, I put on a few pieces of wood on the fire, and stood there watching … Continue reading
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Whenever Two or Three…
More and more I am impressed with how Jewish was Jesus, how Jewish was the thinking of the early assembly of disciples: Wrestling with their memories of the living Jesus and their experiences of the Risen Christ – in the … Continue reading
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Oh, that Today you would hear His Voice!
Awe and wonder strike an open heart : In England there had been nothing like Taos Mountain. The field offered an unobstructed view of the mountain. I’d never seen anything like it, an awesome massif, a clump of peaks, an … Continue reading
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Better than Hating…
… better than hating the unjust is to weep for their insensitivity, because even if they are worthy of hatred, the Word does not want the God-friendly soul to be disquieted by hatred, because knowledge does not work in a … Continue reading
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Love Your Enemy
Breivik is insane. As soon as I read he’d lifted entire passages from Ted Kazinski, I thought: No sane person would swallow that! (Also, it was clear from the start that while he had the brilliance to meticulously plan and … Continue reading
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Heart Work
As the Rabbis put it (Berakot 29b): Prayer which has become so set that it no longer permits of creative newness, has ceased to be devotional. Isaiah 43.19 records these words of Yahweh: I am about to do a new … Continue reading
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Heart Advice from a Hasidic Rabbi
Seek the Sacred Within the Ordinary Seek the Remarkable Within the Commonplace Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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Heart Streams in Dry Land 