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Serialization of Sacred Vow: Tea Ceremony (continued)
C.G.
The most significant event of your life calls to you, from barely beyond your perception...both imminent and impossible... a call of the heart, of the spirit, and of yourself to which you have not yet... More »
Serialization of Sacred Vow: Tea Ceremony
C.G.
The most significant event of your life calls to you, from barely beyond your perception...both imminent and impossible... a call of the heart, of the spirit, and of yourself to which you have not... More »
Serialization of Sacred Vow—Searching
C.G.
The most significant event of your life calls to you, from barely beyond your perception...both imminent and impossible... a call of the heart, of the spirit, and of yourself to which you have not... More »
Whose life would you like to be living?
C.G.
I would choose no one else's life over mine. Better a known devil..... Sure, I-like most people, I suppose-have things about my life that I would like to change. I cannot say that all my... More »
The Words We Use Maintain Our Confinement
C.G.
Words are symbolic carriers of our intention or our nature. They are tools to share ourselves with others, personally, culturally, and spiritually. Quite often they communicate other or more than we than we specifically intend.... More »
Laughing IS Praying
C.G.
I don't remember the specific focus of the conversation that my wife, Kathy, and I were having, but I know it included something about prayer/communication with the Absolute, and something about laughter. We were playing... More »
What were you taught about religion?
C.G.
"Nobody has a right to say that! That's sick!" It was my internal response--loud and clear!--to a statement the Presbyterian preacher made in his sermon, "If you have not brought your child to church by... More »
How do spiritual and environmental awareness relate?
C.G.
How does training to increase my awareness of my left hand also increase my awareness in the rest of my body? Our spirit is the environment, and vice versa. It is the illusion that implies... More »
If a child asked you about God, how would you answer?
C.G.
I would answer based on the child's reason for asking and the child's need, based on my relationship with the child, and with consideration of the (home/cultural/experiential) environment that the child must live in once receiving... More »
If you had to become a monk or nun, what religion would you choos
C.G.
Definitely Taoism. Speaking of his tour of Taoist hermitages in China before the communist takeover, John Blofeld said that they were places where one was as likely to hear the sound of raucous laughter as the sound... More »
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August 2008 