An old sober booze hound, friend of mine, likes to tell the story about his first day off the drink. Apparently, some nondescript, former drunk, crusty old timer, sidled up to him after at his first 12 step meeting and said, “Don’t worry son the only thing you’ll have to change here, is everything!” Metanoia […]
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If, like me, you regularly howl at the moon, you might just be suffering from a severe case of what the Hebrews called hard-heartedness. In my last post I identified the emphasis that Aristotle, the father of western philosophy, placed on the heart, as the “seat of the soul and the source of reason”. When
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Amongst the oft quoted utterances of the Sufi mystic Rumi is the following little gem. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” As stressed in my last post, I have become convinced after many years on the trek that the heart above all is the center of spiritual action. The quest par excellence
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It is entirely appropriate that the Christians who adopt an active pacifist life, model their commitment on the life of the God with skin on man from Galilee, Jesus. He is for Christians the quintessential pacifist par excellence. Difficulty arises, however, when one enters the vast and varied terrain of Hebrew scripture. It is there