Sharing the Ascension Experience
Bob Kalk Dear Folks, Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. — Thomas Merton (1915-1968) Monk, Author We think of a person who is Urbane as subdued, even aloof. We all have a wide range of energetic moods. We can be calm and we … Read more
Dear Folks, Overcome . . . Evil with Good. Falsehood with Truth. Hatred with Love. Ugliness with Beauty. Selfishness with Thoughtfulness. Need with Service. . . . It may seem a stretch to categorize Delicious as a personal positive quality, but anything that is pleasing to the senses can also be agreeable to the mind … Read more
Dear Folks, The Golden Rule (The Ethic of Reciprocity) You should love your neighbor as yourself. — Judaism, Leviticus 19.18 You should love your neighbor as yourself. — Christianity, Jesus, Matthew 22:39 Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. — Christianity, Matthew 7:12 Ethical Self-respect and principled other-respect are reciprocal. In … Read more
Dear Folks, Human efforts [are] cumulative, something in every effort [is] preserved and added to the whole. — Fifty Degrees Below Zero, Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-) To see oneself in a humorous light often times means a Flexible attitude is required. Have a Daffy week! Peace, Jim DAFFY Definition: crazy; silly; zany Too Far: … Read more
Dear Folks, Like attracts like: Wherever you’re putting your focus is what you’re going to get more of. What you focus on expands. — Lisa M. Gillespie, Mind & Body Therapist Even if a person is only concerned with enlightened self interest they need to think of someone other than themself. The highest form of … Read more
Bradford Hansen-Smith believes the simple activity of folding circles provides a rich learning experience, observations that occur within the greatest context, and discoveries that have profound meaning. Consider the Source
Anthony Atala asks, “Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?” His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that — engineering over 30 tissues and whole organs.
Dear Seekers, You could be better than you are You could be riding on a star. — Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990) Composer It is often about degree. We humans are famous for overdoing it. Once we do, it is often an impulse to control our appetites. A little bit of a Rascally attitude will go … Read more
The teachings of Jesus, even though greatly modified, survived the mystery cults of their birthtime, the ignorance and superstition of the dark ages, and are even now slowly triumphing over the materialism, mechanism, and secularism of the twentieth century. And such times of great testing and threatened defeat are always times of great revelation. Religion … Read more
Quite often, men of the world refer to believers as troublemakers; as Ahab called Elijah a “troubler of Israel” (1 Kings 18:16-18). Interestingly, Jesus might appear more of a troublemaker than a peacemaker, as people could not agree about him. Jesus explains, “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did … Read more