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 …
I can’t help but notice the parallels between our era and the ancient one described by Plato: a time of unprecedented wealth that breeds masses of unhappy, disconnected people who live lives of gilded desperation. I see it everywhere I turn in the airport this morning. It seems to be the increasingly dominant spirit of the time, our Zeitgeist.
We're taught that pain is the great teacher, that suffering is unavoidable and human nature is immutable. We're told that fear is a naturalism powerful, and primitive emotion that helped and continues to help human beings navigate the dangers and pitfalls of the natural world and human society. We're persuaded to huddle in masses, for …
There is an old proverb which says: "Where there its no vision, the people perish..." The corollary is equally true: where there is vision, the people flourish. There cannot be real growth, true development without vision. This is as true for the individual as it is for any grouping of individuals. It is true for …
What do you know? What do you really, truly know about yourself, humanity, and the cosmic context in which our stunningly beautiful planet is set? Why are you here? Why are we here? Where are we going? Is our presence haphazard and our purpose socially constructed? Or are our lives set in a larger, purposeful, …
To search the world for pleasure, joy, or thrill is to miss the point of living. What is life? Look at the natural world and look to the heavens. All evidence points to the reality of life. Life’s nature is radiant, selfless, flowing. Every sunrise, every phase of the moon, every tree and flower gives …
Gregory Hake 