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Soul Is Our Appetite, Driving Us To Eat From The Banquet Of Life. People Filled With The Hunger Of Soul Take Food From Every Dish Before Them, Whether It Be Sweet Or Bitter.

I Am A Westerner. We're Not Going To Change The West By Going East. The East Has A Lot To Teach Us, But Essentially It's Like A Mirror, Saying, Hey, Can't You See What's Here In Your Own Religion, What Are You, Stupid?

Compassion Is Not Pity ... Compassion Never Considers An Object As Weak Or Inferior. Compassion, One Might Say, Works From A Strength Born Of Awareness Of Shared Weakness, And Not From Someone Else's Weakness. And From The Awareness Of The Mutuality Of Us All. Thus To Put Down Another As In Pity Is To Put Down Oneself.

Healthy Mysticism Praises Acts Of Letting Go, Of Being Emptied, Of Getting In Touch With The Space Inside And Expanding This Until It Merges With The Space Outside. Space Meeting Space; Empty Pouring Into Empty. Births Happen From That Encounter With Emptiness, Nothingness. . . . Let Us Not Fight Emptiness And Nothingness, But Allow It To Penetrate Us Even As We Penetrate It.

I'm Really Enjoying The Process Of Learning To Fly. How It Will Fit Into My Life Down The Road - I'm Looking Forward To Discovering That.