“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something—and it is only …
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Nobody leaves this planet alive, but everyone does.
PLEASE NOTE: This “Spirituality for Thinkers” post is for advanced souls. Today we’re discussing something that most humans fear and no soul ever experiences: Death.
Let’s exonerate Pope Benedict XVI
Methinks the Pope hath forgiven too much; he has actually perpetuated the un-Christlike myth that the Jewish people killed Jesus. By dismissing the facts, the Pope’s grandiose forgiveness of the Jews is as much an attack on an innocent people as America’s violent invasion of Iraq.
Yoism is for Thinkers
This is NOT for those who can’t laugh at themselves.
God and Man in Tucson
We are accountable for our double standard. We can’t say that it’s unacceptable for humans to solve problems by killing people, while simultaneously proselytizing that God sinks to such a low, human, and sometimes demonic standard of behavior.
Only human? What if you’re not?
What’s the most important resolution you’d make if you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you were going to outlive your physical body?
What happened to Jesus’s dash?
It’s really not the circumstances surrounding Jesus’s birth or death that matter, it’s his dash. Most Christians disagree, some more vehemently than others.
If God cares…
If God cares, is it about the same things you care about?
The Beginning of the End of Levitical Ignorance?
Consider the possibility that the soul we recognize here as Bishop Eddie Long has come here to jettison human consciousness above the level of Levitical ignorance.
The deceiving power of perception
Does a father accused of dropping his kids off in an unknown part of town without telling them how to get home any different from accusations that God has created only path home but only told his Christian or Jewish or Muslim or Buddhist, etc. kids how to find it? Is that what we believe about God, or is it just another reflection of humans’ propensity for discriminating against or one-upping each other?