Let’s Help Construct a New Philosophy of Living—and Grow How would you express your current philosophy of living? Would you like to develop it further? Here’s an opportunity to do so based on the idea that thinking aspires to truth, feeling responds to beauty, and doing can be governed by …
Urgent concerns and the long path of learning to live the truth
How do you feel when you are living at your best? Here are some words recently gathered from a group: happy, relaxed, unshackled, free, empathetic. We want all persons to live at their best more often, for longer periods of time, and for that best to become even better. We know the alternative: the …
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The golden rule’s six levels of meaning
Amid happy laughter among friends, equals in the family, the rule of living--Do to others as you want others to do to you--unfolds in three levels, then six levels. A path to ascend to the way Jesus lived the golden rule is full of lessons, including lessons about how not to get overwhelmed by a …
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The inclusive brotherhood of man?
A soldier who had seen enemy soldiers kill her friends could not accept the idea that all humankind are the children of God. Are the teachings of Jesus really applicable in this world? Intellectually I agree with the golden rule that if I were part of an army bent on conquest, raping, killing, and …
Immigrants, Muslims, neighbors
What should we do if it becomes intolerable to stay in our homeland? In recent decades, the increasingly common answer is to emigrate. People have learned that despite the risks and miseries of immigration, support from various sources frequently arrives to enable people to survive and eventually to …
Kay Lindahl’s The Sacred Art of Listening
This blog post is one of quotes and comments. With fascinating bits of scientific research results, combined with illustrations by Amy Schnapper that gently lead the mind beyond the verbal realm, Kay Lindahl, founder of The Listening Center, distills the wisdom of long experience of study, practice, …
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