Remember, we do not think ourselves into new ways of living, but we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
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Author: Frank
Mobile enthusiast and author
What Are The Big Things?
What are the big things? I would list love, freedom, evil, God, eternity, nonviolence, forgiveness, grace and mercy. These the dualistic mind cannot comprehend, and in fact, it usually gets them utterly wrong because they each have a paradoxical character that demands some degree of non-dual thinking.
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The Narrow Path
The narrow path is not following all the rules, it is trusting Yahweh more than trusting yourself. Equating Christianity to living the harder life of following all Gods laws (morality) is actually trusting one’s interpretation rather than Jesus’s actual teaching.
Amen
We are told that, in response to this promise, Abraham “believed the LORD” (Genesis 15: 6)—which is the first place in the Bible where believing comes up. Believe in the original Hebrew of this story is ‘aman (ah-MAHN), which has made its way into English, and we all know it as amen—only, it’s not a social cue that we’re done praying, and it’s okay to open our eyes and dig in. Amen as the final word of a prayer is a declaration of trust: “We’re done talking now, Lord. We’ve said our peace and put this matter into your hands. Now we trust you with it.”
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Thy Kingdom Come, My Kingdom Go
When people say piously, “Thy kingdom come” out of one side of their mouth, they need also to say, “My kingdom go!” out of the other side. The kingdom of God supersedes and far surpasses all kingdoms of self and society or personal reward.
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Asking For History To Be Born
The celebration of Christmas is not a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born, but much more an asking for history to be born! (see Romans 8: 20–23).
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Stuck In The First Half Of Life
In his book Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know —and Doesn’t (HarperCollins, 2007), Stephen Prothero (chair of the religion department of Boston University) wrote that religious faith in America “is almost entirely devoid of content.”
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Argue
Having to argue with each other is the price we pay for freedom.
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True Morality Is Expression Of Compassion
However, I’ve seen and experienced enough to appreciate that the only true morality is morality that is an expression of compassion and humanity. Merely following a list of external rules is a cheap approximation of morality. It’s what one falls back on when compassion and humanity are lacking.
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We Give Ourselves A Permission Slip
People are seduced into evil because they don’t recognize evil as evil. They mistake it for justice, or righteousness, or even God’s Will. And the seduction begins with the thought that “I’m a good person,” and “his hatred of me is evil, but my hatred of him is justified.” As soon as we identify ourselves as “good” and the Other, whoever they are, as “evil,” we’ve well on the way to giving ourselves a cosmic permission slip to do whatever we want to be rid of them.
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Learning From Others, Seeking The Way 