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Jenni Potts, singer songwriter in Bellingham, Washington from a profile in November 2007 What's Up magazine.
"...find your unchanging center being and never define yourself by an emotion, an action or any box just waiting to consume you." -
Art and LIfe
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Fairytales
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The Zohar, an esoteric Hebrew text, talks about male and female being one before they come into the world. As they enter creation, they are separated into individual beings. If a man has pleased God, at the time of marriage, he is reunited with his female counterpart from before his birth. In marriage, they become one once again. -
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A Sufi saying, "You are the mirror in which God recognizes himself." They are the mystical branch of Islam like you are the mystical branch of Christianity. From the Quran, "I (Allah) was a hidden jewel and I wanted to be known." Allah's rationale for the creation. Huston Smith talks about how it is in God's nature to be generous. Although ( Read more... ) -
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Huston Smith, the historian of the world's great religions, went through a grueling training at a Zen monastery. The Roshi summed up the experience as leading one to:
--Infinite gratitude for all things past
--Infinite service to all things present
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The Human Condition
Find one’s soul
Bear one’s soul
Seek other souls
Disparage soul bearers
Disparage soul seekers
Be yourself
Be someone else
Berate yourself
Berate everyone else
Find the divine within you
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Writing ( Read more... )