Monthly Archives: October 2021

When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found. – Sufi proverb Brother, when God gets ready, you’ve got to move – Reverend Gary Davis “Bobo malay, shu-shu maya!” (Lord, make this … Continue reading →

How old is the habit of denial? We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know…For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within … Continue reading →

God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion! ― D.T. Suzuki Believe nothing. Entertain possibilities. – Caroline Casey To the extent that it demonizes much of the … Continue reading →

There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the … Continue reading →

To read a myth as prose (denotation) rather than as poetry (connotation) is a grave mistake and destroys the meaning of the story. All too often we humans do this with our religious texts. – Joseph Campbell Cut loose from … Continue reading →

My point…is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. ― John Dominic Crossan … Continue reading →