There is the greatest of difficulties for me to understand myself.
I am full of contradictions.
My Mother said once that I was “…so contrary” when I was a small child.
I never forgot this even though I did not then understand.
Now I know that she is right and it has taken me most of my life to figure this one out.
I am a person of extremes.
All or nothing.
Nothing in between.
No indifference to passionate witness even if I can now be indifferent to where my path leads.
I believe in heady beauty, caring, soulfulness, journeying, seeking and casting out the blockages on the way. Read the rest of this entry »
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Can we ever really understand The Lord’s Prayer? The truth is that we do not know what truth is so how can we know what foregiveness is? The Way forward is what then?
Perhaps the Power of the Not Quite There Yet (towards Eckhart Toll’s “The Power of Now” that is) will do - for now?
Sometimes we feel and know that we are behaving in a way that is not true. Then we feel guilty so perhaps our conscience is telling us this and that is at least a power in itself. Not perfect and not in “the now”, but a start maybe. Read the rest of this entry »
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Let not prejudice blind us to truth and universal law.
Might we come back and be that which we have hated? So that then we will understand (literally stand under) that hate and that prejudice.
Can we let it all go? Give it up? Can we bid it farewell and give it to the light of Christ or the universe or whichever spiritual guidance you follow? Can it be taken away from us?
Then it could be finished couldn’t it?
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Sounds a bit odd for a bit of spiritual development doesn’t it?
Violence as a word means: “physical force used to inflict injury or damage,” from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. violence, from L. violentia “vehemence, impetuosity,” from violentus “vehement, forcible,” probably related to violare. Weakened sense of “improper treatment” is attested from 1596. (© 2001 Douglas Harper, www.etymonline.com.)
What about a violin? It is interesting to find that there is a relationship between the term ‘violin’ and the Roman Goddess of Exaltation or Victory. Does this mean that there is a link between violin and violence? It is equally amazing to discover that there is an etymological relationship between the stringed instruments and the device used to torture slaves. If exaltation or victory can be good in a peaceful sense, could the world ‘violence’ also have a positive outcome? Could it be a good violence or a bad violence depending on our actions? What about the violence in a storm? Is that good or bad or is it just a result, an effect of underlying causes? After a storm, all is calm and clean and, sometimes, after an outburst of personal anger there is calm because we have let go of the irritant. Why do we relate anger and violence so closely and often only negatively? Read the rest of this entry »
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Politics is about anything other than the truth.
It can’t ever be about the truth because where ever you have two people pursuing political aims, you have the beginning of the deceit; where you have three, you have the beginning of siding with the one most able to press your own buttons. The truth gets lost in the interests of self-interest.
If there is a politician who is capable of standing up impartially for the truth, then their party will get rid of them as they are of no use to party-interests and narrow national interests. Read the rest of this entry »
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