The measure of a man is what he does when he is chastened and rebuked by an ideal, or the ideal, be it God or kindlier Nature. The petty tyrant will take offense and mount a self-righteous crusade. The coward will retreat into the shadows of shame and futility. The wicked will double down on …
Good morning! It is a great day to be alive. I recognize what a privilege it is to be here, on earth, in this day and age, and I am delighted to acknowledge and fully discharge the responsibility that comes with the gift of life I have been given. No matter what comes my way …
"The heavens themselves, the planets and this centreObserve degree, priority and place,Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,Office and custom, in all line of order."(Shakespeare, Ulysses, Act 1 Scene 3) Appearances can be deceiving. In fact, most of what we observe in our daily affairs in the world as it now is, is illusory. This is not …
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”—John 15:13 To lay down your life is to serve selflessly: to protect the weak, to uplift the poor in spirit, and to demonstrate decency and draw forth dignity, regardless of the circumstance. This is not sacrifice; this, my …
Every situation you face, every conversation you engage in, and every feeling you choose to back with the weight of your thoughts, words and deeds gives you the opportunity to either refine or coarsen on the physical, mental, and 'spiritual expression' planes of being. Choose refinement and you will move closer to an experience of …
Nations grown corruptLove bondage more than liberty;Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.~ John Milton If history tells us anything, it is that the greater part of men prefer security to liberty. Most it seems are not even aware that they are making a choice. They go about their lives, entranced by the world around them, …
Truth—objective, eternal abstract truth—comes to point in relation to the particular configuration of circumstances of the present moment. If you know the pattern of truth in the present moment, you are released from blinders of ignorance. Knowing truth in this sense sets you free.
You are not here to struggle, suffer, and cope with the world as it is become. Neither are you here to “get by” until your time is up. You are here to create, to reveal the greatness that comes to focus in the true you.
Repentance is essentially the creation of a safe and sacred space in and through which divine intelligence can flow. Divine intelligence is always at hand. Repentance, forgiveness, thanksgiving all create space in us, vital space which frees us from the unnatural limitations and restrictions of unrighteousness.
Now God did not make the soul after the body, although we are speaking of them in this order; for having brought them together he would never have allowed that the elder should be ruled by the younger; but this is a random manner of speaking which we have, because somehow we ourselves too are very much under the …
Gregory Hake 