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A rich man died and went to a place nothing like his idea of heaven. He looked up and saw all the creatures he had killed for sport resting on Abraham’s bosom. “Send one of those quails to bring me a cool drink,” he cried, but the chasm between them could not be crossed.
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John Main, a Benedictine monk, revived the ancient practice of Christian meditation, d Dec 30 1982. Through imageless prayer and the repetition of a mantra, he taught that one might move from the surface of consciousness to the silent place where Jesus lives and prays within us.
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“To meditate,” he wrote, “means to live out of the center of our being.” His approach to prayer fostered dialogue with people of other faiths. Describing his meditation with the Dalai Lama he said: “We meditated together in absolute openness to love and to the Lord of love.”
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“Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.” @OrbisBooks
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Made the mistake of watching a @nytimes video on the making of “Dance Monkey,” and now, damn! 🤪🕺🏻
Danilo Dolci, the “Gandhi of Sicily,” d, Dec 30 1997. He spent 4 decades among the poor in Sicily, fighting government neglect and corruption, the Mafia, and the people’s ingrained habits of passivity and hopelessness.
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Maybe he would just never leave. The master knew many hiding places in the manor. He could haunt the place forever, popping up like Banquos’s ghost. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Very powerful.
What is the disease of the Catholic Church asks Lisa Fullam. "Clericalism, sure, but other denominations have clericalism but don't seem to have the problem of recurrent and widespread abuses of power." ncr.media/3mWqVLN
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What an interesting premise for a reality TV show! Or a political version of Jurassic Park. What could go wrong?
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He wrote, “A people’s dream died there... It was a beautiful dream...the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.” Later he became a Catholic catechist, now candidate for canonization.
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This is an excellent summary\review of “The Doomsday Machine.” @DanielEllsberg (Won’t it be a relief when we can go back to worrying about things like nuclear holocaust?)
Doomsday ex Machina: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Gang - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2020/12/28/…
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Doomsday ex Machina: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Gang - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2020/12/28/…
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The master had long known that dynamite was a fisherman’s friend, but it had so many other applications, from chopping wood to removing snow, negotiating a deal or settling a bill. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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