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Tag: doing (4 entries)

The One Thing that Never Changes

· 25 August 2007 | 439 words

Reality is flowing. This does not mean that everything moves, changes, becomes. Science and common experience tell us that. It means that movement, change, becoming is everything that there is. There is nothing else; everything is movement, is change....

I love, therefore I am

· 18 July 2007 | 271 words

When I was younger, late high school and especially in college, I identified with Descartes' "I think, therefore I am." It was the motto for the Age of Rationalism. It is still often used in today's postmodernism. After finding faith,...

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

· 28 May 2007 | 122 words

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one...

Useless

· 13 February 2007 | 196 words

From James Finley's Merton's Palace of Nowhere: In prayer we are "useless." We do not "do" anything, but rather open ourselves to be the person God calls us to be. The Moslems say, "God does nothing and therefore there is...