Tag Archives: freedom

Daily Teaching for Monday, July 30th

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

When we move beyond the things we imagine will make us happy – usually because we have discovered the happiness we get from things is limited and fleeting – it often surprises us that true and lasting happiness resides not … Continue reading →

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Daily Teaching for Wednesday, May 23rd

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

Everything and everyone is inseparably interconnected. It is a fact of life. My decisions, beliefs, and practices are not isolated events that impact only myself. Because of this truth, none of us are free until all of us are free. … Continue reading →

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Daily Teaching for Monday, May 14th

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Make no mistake: Until we all are free, none of us are free.

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Feeling Trapped

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

The question I hear my daughter’s friends ask one another most often may well be, “Do You Know What She Said?” No, I don’t know what she said, and quite honestly I couldn’t be less interested – and it doesn’t much … Continue reading →

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Daily Teaching for Tuesday, February 14th

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

It’s funny how most people really only like freedom of expression when they are the one’s being free to express themselves.  Furor over Nikki Minaj’s performance at the Grammy Awards wherein she parodied the Rite of Exorcism would be hysterical … Continue reading →

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Daily Teaching for Monday, January 9th

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Imagine a world in which people worried only about their own spiritual practice and whether or not it was appropriate for themselves. That would be a world in which nobody felt compelled to label any other practice a cult or … Continue reading →

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Christmas Message

Posted on December 12, 2009 by

“What matters is not spirituality, not religion, not perfection, not success or failure at this or that, but simply God and freedom in God’s Spirit. All the rest it pure stupidity” – Thomas Merton This quote is part of the … Continue reading →

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