Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to us. "
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
There are a couple of things that are, in the present, floating in front of my face, and once one of them gets enough energy to become a voice that I cannot not hear, then I will become a steamroller. When you've made your film, you stop hearing the voice.
You should shower," I said. "Right now. " "I smell that bad?" (Patch) Actually, he smelled that good.
I set myself a rule before I actually write a tune to the lyrics, and the rule is that I've got to take the lyrics on to a level of understanding before I can actually write music to them. What I'm doing is interpretation. If I don't write the lyrics, therefore I must interpret them to the best of my ability. So my rule is that I must understand it, but I don't necessarily have to accept.
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.