Love and wholeness
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by Karl Duffy
4h ago
In our yearning to be perfect, we have mistaken perfection for wholeness. We think we cannot love ourselves until we and others meet some external standard. Depression, anxiety – in fact, most neuroses and compulsions – are ultimately a defense against loving ourselves without condition. We are afraid to look at the damp, dark, ugly yet exquisite roots of being that stretch deep into our survival chakra. We are fearful of finding that the spirit is not there, that our Home is empty, even as our outer home is empty. Yet it is in that place of survival, where the dark mother has been abandoned ..read more
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Called to let go
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by Karl Duffy
1d ago
Where is this peace to be found? The answer is clear. In weakness. First of all, in our own weakness, in those places of our hearts where we feel most broken, most insecure, most in agony, most afraid. Why there? Because there, our familiar ways of controlling our world are being stripped away; there we are called to let go from doing much, thinking much, and relying on our self-sufficiency. Right there where we are weakest the peace which is not of this world is hidden. Henri Nouwen ..read more
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Where wisdom arises
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by Karl Duffy
2d ago
When a person remains focused on the inconstancy of everything that comes together, ignorance is abandoned, and clear knowing [wisdom] arises. The Buddha, Itivuttaka: The Group of Threes, Iti 3.36;  ..read more
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Blessed
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by Karl Duffy
3d ago
Even with all our technological accomplishments and urban sophistication, we consider ourselves blessed, healed in some manner, forgiven, and for a moment transported into some other world, when we catch a passing glimpse of an animal in the wild: a deer in some woodland, a fox crossing a field, a butterfly in its dancing flight southward to its wintering region, a hawk soaring in the distant sky. Thomas Berry : Sunbeams, January 2021 ..read more
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A larger purpose
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by Karl Duffy
4d ago
March 25th, The Feastday of the Annunciation In her poem “Annunciation,” Denise Levertov suggests that the message the angel Gabriel brings to Mary is one that comes to each of us. We receive an intimation of some purpose larger and more challenging than anything we have imagined for ourselves, but all too often those strange and risky times…. “More often those moments when roads of light and storm open from darkness in a man or woman, are turned away from in dread, in a wave of weakness, in despair and with relief. Ordinary lives continue. God does not smite them. But the gates close, the pa ..read more
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Sunday Quote: live by love
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by Karl Duffy
5d ago
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) e.e.cummings ..read more
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Abundance
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by Karl Duffy
6d ago
In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants ..read more
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Manipulating the world
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by Karl Duffy
1w ago
Your mind has very little control over this world. It is neither omniscient nor omnipotent. It cannot control the weather and other natural forces. Nor can it control all people, places, and things around you. You have given your mind an impossible task by asking it to manipulate the world in order to fix your personal inner problems. If you want to achieve a healthy state of being, stop asking your mind to do this. Just relieve your mind of the job of making sure that everyone and everything will be the way you need them to be so that you can feel better inside.  Michael A. Singer, The ..read more
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Know your own song
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by Karl Duffy
1w ago
A bird gets up every morning and sings its song. It does not wait to hear what other birds are singing, nor does it look to see if another bird is getting more notice. It knows its song innately and sings. This is nature: knowing your own song Michele Oka Doner, 1945 – American artist and author ..read more
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The light
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by Karl Duffy
1w ago
The “light” is the capacity to reconcile your experience, your sorrow, with every day that dawns. It is that understanding, which is beyond significance, that allows you to live a life and embrace the disasters and sorrows and joys that are our common lot. But it’s only with the recognition that there is a crack in everything. I think all other visions are doomed to irretrievable gloom. And whenever anyone asks us to accept a perfect solution, that should immediately alert us to the flaws in that presentation. Leonard Cohen, in a commentary on his song Anthem ..read more
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