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Consciousness
Sunbeams
April 1995Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
The Trouble With Religion
An Interview With Matthew Fox
If you teach people that the number-one problem is their sin and that when they came into the world they made a blotch on existence, they’ll never get over it. We talk about sexual abuse of children, but this is religious abuse.
April 1995Labels
Joshua used humor to keep people at arm’s length — which was funny in itself, because his arms were stunted from polio at an early age and now lay close to his body, twisted and next to useless.
April 1995Higher Learning
Kenneth And Gloria Wapnick On A Course In Miracles
Fundamentally, the Course says that only spirit is real, and there’s nothing else. It also says that God is not involved in the world of matter. It says the proper role of Jesus, or the Holy Spirit, is not to solve problems for you, but to be a loving presence in your mind that reminds you not to accept the world of time and matter as real.
March 1995Cosmic Airdrome (revisited)
One way to know something is true is that you cannot back off from knowing it. You cannot go slumming in ignorance. You cannot pretend not to know what you have experienced. It is a sin to doubt it.
January 1995December 1994
Table Manners
The full-page ads by big corporations proclaim peace on earth, when all they really want is another piece of the earth.
December 1994The Little Bit
When you’re a child, you have the little bit and it has you. You throw it up and clap your hands. Your father momentarily catches it, but it is yours in your little animal eyes, your tender knees, the way a banana unwraps in your small hands, unzips as you slowly pull down the peel and reveal the soft, pale fruit.
December 1994
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