Big-heartednes S Is The Most Essential Virtue

A Civilization Built On Dualism And War Within And Between Persons, One That Puts Its Most Creative Minds And Its Best Engineers To Sadistic Work Building More And More Destructive Weapons, Is No Civilization At All. It Needs A Radical Transformation From The Heart Outwards. It Needs To Outgrow And Outlaw War Just As In The Last Century It Outlawed Slavery. The Human Race Has Outgrown War, But It Hardly Knows It Yet.

I Think That There's A Hidden Darkness In All Of Us!

Faith Takes Us To Deep Places, To The Ruptures In Our Self-confidence And Our Lives. Do Not Settle For Spiritual Comfort All The Time...darkness Is Divine Also. Faith Is Not About Positive Thinking So Much As About What Kicks In When We Are Weak, Sick, And Short Of Self-confidence. The Via Positiva Never Stands Alone. The Via Negativa Is Always With Us On Our Faith Journey As Well.

If You Look Closely At A Tree You'll Notice It's Knots And Dead Branches, Just Like Our Bodies. What We Learn Is That Beauty And Imperfection Go Together Wonderfully.

Political Movements For Justice Are Part Of The Fuller Development Of The Cosmos, And Nature Is The Matrix In Which Humans Come To Their Self-awareness Of Their Power To Transform. Liberation Movements Are A Fuller Development Of The Cosmos's Sense Of Harmony, Balance, Justice, And Celebration. This Is Why True Spiritual Liberation Demands Rituals Of Cosmic Celebrating And Healing, Which Will In Turn Culminate In Personal Transformation And Liberation.