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You Think You’re Real
The new is already here. The old is just making a lot of noise dying.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear- stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and imagine real grounds for hope.
We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
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… When we receive and empathize with the face of the other (especially the suffering face), it leads to transformation of our whole being. It creates a moral demand on our heart that is far more compelling than the Ten Commandments.
Just giving people commandments on tablets of stone doesn’t change the heart. It may steel the will, but it doesn’t soften the heart like a personal encounter can.
… We are mirrored not by concepts, but by faces delighting in us, giving us the face we can’t give to ourselves.
~ Richard Rohr
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…along the way I forgot I was a soul who had taken birth…For 30 years I forgot who I was. I was busy being who I thought I was…I became somebody special, just like…
