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Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:24:34 -0500

"To live is the rarest thing in the world…. most people exist, that is all."

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:44:23 -0400

““To live is the rarest thing in the world…. most people exist, that is all.””

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." -Mahatma Gandhi

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:14:50 -0400

Loving this!

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:17:05 -0400

Loving this!

mcole: Peter Rollins tells a parable to challenge our need for...

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:18:16 -0400

mcole:

Peter Rollins tells a parable to challenge our need for answers when it comes to Christian faith…

"All men should try to learn, before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:46:20 -0400

““All men should try to learn, before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.””

- Fortune Cookie

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go…"

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:45:22 -0400

““Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go…””

- T.S. Eliott

"The chaos of the world has an underlying order…"

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:44:07 -0400

““The chaos of the world has an underlying order…””

Cool Toronto Pic (Interactive)

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:47:41 -0500

Cool Toronto Pic (Interactive):

Drag your mouse across the photo (from left of screen to right). Cool concept. Creative - I like it.

“The Fun Theory”

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:41:00 -0500

“The Fun Theory”

"I’ve been fighting this all my life. I’ve looked at the patterns of my life and when I surrender to..."

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:23:16 -0500

“I’ve been fighting this all my life. I’ve looked at the patterns of my life and when I surrender to that simplistic, either-or, all or nothing thinking, it’s made me make my worse mistakes. It’s allowed me to hurt people unnecessarily without even knowing I was hurting them. It has allowed me to not be compassionate, to not be patient, to not be merciful, to not understand situations, to read them wrong. The dualistic mind (there is only right and wrong and nothing else in between) operates by reading everything by what I like and by what I prefer. It reads everything egocentric. You don’t even realize you are egocentric, you just think you are defending some great truth. You’re usually not. You are defending what you are comfortable with and you call that objective truth.”

- Richard Rohr (via mcole)

The Weepies-Take It From Me

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:06:40 -0500

The Weepies-Take It From Me

Mike Gary Cole: My (I-promise-I'm-not) cynical rant.

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:16:37 -0500

Mike Gary Cole: My (I-promise-I'm-not) cynical rant.:

mcole:

I have a confession to make:

I am incredibly tired of church. I’m tired of singing songs and playing my guitar and the so-called worship curve. I’m tired of offering talks and the rich young ruler and something about a camel and a needle.

I’m tired of announcements. My God, I’m tired of…

I’m on the same page… been reading the book “Pagan Christianity?” by Frank Viola and George Barna, amongst other books… and finally figuring out why “church” has felt so boring, dead and frustrating for most of my life. God isn’t boring… but some people trapped in religion sure are… Thanks for sharing your point of view, it’s refreshing.

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed...."

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:36:09 -0400

““All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.””

- Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th century philosopher

The Calf Path by Sam Walter Foss

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:54:00 -0400

“One day, through the primeval wood,

A calf walked home, as good calves should;

But made a trail all bent askew,

A crooked trail as all calves do.

“Since then three hundred years have fled,

And, I infer, the calf is dead.

But still he left behind his trail,

And thereby hangs my moral tale.

“The trail was taken up next day

By a lone dog that passed that way;

And then a wise bell-wether sheep

Pursued the trail o’er vale and steep,

And drew the flock behind him, too,

As good bell-wethers always do.

And from that day, o’er hill and glade,

Through those old woods a path was made.

“And many men wound in and out,

And dodged, and turned, and bent about

And uttered words of righteous wrath

Because ‘twas such a crooked path.

But still they followed -do not laugh-

The first migrations of that calf,

And through this winding wood-way stalked,

Because he wobbled when he walked.

“This forest path became a lane,

That bent, and turned, and turned again;

This crooked lane became a road,

Where many poor horse with his load

Toiled on beneath the burning sun,

And traveled some three miles in one.

And thus a century and a half

They trod the footsteps of that calf.

“The years passed on in swiftness fleet,

The road became a village street;

And this, before men were aware,

A city’s crowded thoroughfare;

And soon the central street was this

Of a renowned metropolis;

And men two centuries and a half

Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

“Each day a hundred thousand rout

Followed the zigzag calf about;

And o’er his crooked journey went

The traffic of a continent.

A hundred thousand men were led

By one calf near three centuries dead.

They followed still his crooked way,

And lost one hundred years a day;

For thus such reverence is lent

To well-established precedent.

“A moral lesson this might teach,

Were I ordained and called to preach;

For men are prone to go it blind

Along the calf-paths of the mind,

“And work away from sun to sun

To do what other men have done.

They follow in the beaten track,

And out and in, and forth and back,

“And still their devious course pursue,

To keep the path that others do.

They keep the path a sacred groove,

Along which all their lives they move.

But how the wise old wood-gods laugh,

Who saw the first primeval calf!

Ah! Many things this tale might teach-

But I am not ordained to preach.

-Sam Walter Foss

The power of tradition can be a huge waste of time…

Jonathan David Helser singing “Abba” A song filled...

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:08:00 -0400

Jonathan David Helser singing “Abba”

A song filled with so much peace… couldn’t not share it.

RED- Pieces “I come to you in pieces… so you can...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:00:36 -0400

RED- Pieces

“I come to you in pieces… so you can make me whole”

“I will give you beauty for ashes.”

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:55:00 -0400

“I will give you beauty for ashes.”