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Divine Intervention: Blessing or Curse
For a while, it is comforting to think everything happens for a reason. But honestly, MOST people who lay that on as a platitude mean that it applies when bad things happen to YOU. Just like so many go around … Continue reading
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Tagged blessing, divine intervention, evil, good, religion, spirituality
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Water seeks its own level
Water seeks its own level, on a quest to find the sea; The answers we seek taste of metal, our understanding like liquid drawn from a well that finds the hard edges of knowing, the galvanized pail holding the essence … Continue reading
U.G.
In English, it sounds just the same: a senseless string of words embued with some sense of mystique used to convince and tame you; to teach you follow and not lead; that first impulse is evil. If what you seek … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged gurus, idols, lies, mumbo-jumbo, mysticism, spirituality, UG Krishnamurti
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But It Ain’t
If this were a Christian country by Jehovah’s rules, there’d be much more compassion and glad suffering of fools, less hands out full of gimme with mouths full of much obliged, no clear advantage to the rich, less chance of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged compassion, denominations, ecumenics, hypocrisy, religion, spirituality, tolerance
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A Sense of Place
Six years, the longest I have ever been in one spot without moving out and on, and still this place does not possess my bones the way it would if I had come of age, or taken my first steps, … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, grounding, locations, personal history, places, sacred, spirituality, vacations
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