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Lead With Love

Lead With Love

Maybe - the truth about ... "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.".. Einstein... and the deep philosophical knowing of ... 'we can't think our way out of this'... is actually revealing to us that our minds need to step back...

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God, Or “God,” Or The Things On My List?

God, Or “God,” Or The Things On My List?

I don’t believe in God, because that word is too attached to religious myths, especially within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (The religions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism are far less attached to their myths, which are more like illustrative stories.) Lots of...

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Purpose in the Living System

Purpose in the Living System

Yet, it’s hard to feel that in isolation, when we are separated from all that we can offer, when we are separated from our truth of who we are, we feel we have nothing to offer.  Nothing to give.  That there is little point or purpose to our existence …. And yet when...

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What is Natural (or Secular) Spirituality?

What is Natural (or Secular) Spirituality?

What is Natural (or Secular) Spirituality? J.X. Mason July 29, 2024 From the free online book at www.ContinuingCreation.orgNatural-Spirituality, or Secular–Spirituality, emphasizes the inner peace of the individual, rather than a relationship with the “divine.”...

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In Nature, There Are No Straight Lines

In Nature, There Are No Straight Lines

In Nature, There Are No Straight Lines When I fly into a city, what strikes me most are all the straight lines: long grids of streets and highways bisected at neat 90 degree angles, set with rectangular buildings, miles of telephone wires and railroad tracks.   This...

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A Summons

A Summons

A Summons  by Bob Ambrose   Who will mourn the ‘Age of Man’      when the epoch of Adam is done?  His dream of dominion has cursed the Earth,      our sweat has stained the ground.    Now we swagger into the Anthropocene      where sickness shatters the...

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Mother Nature’s Prayer

Mother Nature’s Prayer

The Mother Nature’s Prayer   Our Mother, who art within us, Hallowed be thy name. Thy ways evolve,  Thy will calls forth This earth that is now our heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, And fill us with tenderness As we repair our trespasses. And lead us...

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