Love and Compassion

Audacious Freedom and Peace Dreamers

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela. These past few days, my misfit mystic musing has been on:  In days to come, the mountain of God’s house shall be established on the highest mountains… […]

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The promise of inner peace is a key component of all major spiritual traditions. Achieved, through spiritual practice, and thus a direct relationship with the living God, who is peace and love personified. Inner peace is perfect calm and balance, irrespective of external circumstances.

Listen to the inner light

Divinized, immortalized, changed into citizens of peace I’ve been too far-flung places, went sailing on a ship of fools. All firmly in the grip of the delusion that makes fine young hearts grow cold, that all would be fine and dandy, if I could just get hold of more power, prestige, and gold.  Not a drop

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There is nothing in this beautiful but broken world that does not have the breath of God in it, absolutely nothing! God is without and within and gives love and life to everything. If I’m separated from my sisters and brothers or indeed the birds and the bees, I’m separated from God. If I want to get fully connected to God, I must seek that connection through the other, every other.     

Belonging: Get Connected! 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa. High or low, black or white, gay or straight, we are all creations of God and thus connected. I don’t mean just with our besties, or nearest and dearest. The interconnection runs much deeper to

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