The White Parasol

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11 Aug, 2008

Visualization for the Self

Posted by: edb In: Mrs. Overall's Things

Imagine a pearl, deep inside you, of pure, white light, smooth and shining, brilliant and clear, a thing of beauty – it is your beauty within, it is you

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11 Aug, 2008

Knowledge is…

Posted by: edb In: Mrs. Overall's Things

Knowledge has to be within as well as without.
You could learn, for example, all about astronomy, assimilating the information like a parrot, to repeat from memory, but you may not necessarily understand it.

True knowledge is an understanding of your knowledge, a deep inner knowing that is brought out with learning experiences and teachings.

True knowledge never [...]

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Quotes from Trevor’s thoughts received in June 2007.
A vision for David (his son on heroin, at present in rehab).

“Dear David,
Within God, the cord becomes stronger and whiter, for all to see that it shall not be broken until the time of God’s own choosing, then with a gentle sleep you pass from mortality to [...]

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about the brolly thing

The White Parasol is our (see "about little me and mrs. overall) umbrella where reflections on the confluence of religious,spiritual and modern, everyday life - with all its conflicting issues - can be looked at without and with prejudices. A practical emphasis to provide another way of looking at the bigger picture, in the midst of the ordinary material life, but without theological restriction (which doesn't mean that it is to be disregarded either). The parasol is to protect us from the heat that the issues generate theologically and politically. To propose and discuss,listen to and open up to, other perspectives without fear of getting burnt, in the hope of moving onwards. A belief is not necessarily a reality or a truth, but a programming. The overriding approach: "Faith is about searching for the truth without fear, so it doesn't matter if we lose all of our beliefs.." (from a compilation of ancient wisdoms spanning all religions in Anthony De Mello's "Song of the Bird). But can we question,without fear,issues which shape families, towns, nations and what wars are made of? Well if all the political diplomacy we have had since time immemorial can deliver only a war-torn earth, even in contemporary and "more enlightened" times two thousand years after Christ came to bring peace, perhaps we should dare to.