14 Jul Ways Of Way 395
The self constructs a reality that feels safe and secure. Yet, reality is outside the reality of the self....
12 Jul E Pluribus Unum
In the Bible, a defining feature of God is that there is solely one God. Yet, the Bible begins with God speaking in plural form: “Let us make man in our image…” (Genesis 1:26) and “The man has become like one of us…” (Genesis 3:22) The name Elohim, referring to God, used throughout Genesis 1–3, is also plural. As well, the first of the Ten Commandments decrees: “You shall have no other gods before me.” God appears as both one and many. God is one, as God is the now; the sole manifestation of the Soul. God is many, as God is every thing in the now When our identity is the Soul, God is one. When our identity is the self — an independent sentient being among infinite other things — every thing in the now is God. Loving God is loving all things; turning all things, including ourselves, into one: a manifestation of love....
08 Jul Ways Of Way 392
Wisdom lights the path for the self to its destination: love. Love connects us to the Soul....
05 Jul Ways Of Way 387
Religions are identity groups, a community that creates a sense of oneness among its members. Yet, unlike identity groups generally, religions often have a mystical stream branching from its flow and moving in the opposite direction. The mystical aims to realize oneness with everything....
05 Jul Ways Of Way 390
In the short-run, it's survival of the fittest and the fattest. In the long-run, it's survival of those who can change with changes....
05 Jul Ways Of Way 391
Poetry turns words into sounds. Prose turns words into thoughts. Poetry keeps us in the now. Prose takes us somewhere else....
05 Jul Ways Of Ways 389
As the future extends from the present, it is difficult to see the future when we see the present as an extension of the past. When we see the past as passed, we are free to see the present as it is and the future as how it may be....
03 Jul Ways Of Way 386
There is the consciousness of the Soul and the consciousness of the self. The Soul's consciousness is aware of everything. The self's consciousness is aware of every thing upon which it focuses. The Soul's vision is peripheral. The self's vision is foveal. Those who know they know nothing experience life as the Soul, as they are one with everything. Those who think they know some thing are selfish, apart from every thing....
02 Jul Ways Of Way 384
In the play of life, the actors speak the audience is silent; but for moments of laughter. The silence reveals the truth: life is a play. The laughter begins when the actors forget they are acting....
01 Jul Ways Of Ways 383
Identity groups are generalizations. Identity groups are boxes, presumably full of people. However, every person is present in many boxes. That adds up to more people in boxes than people who exist. As no one is just in one box; when you open any box, there is nothing there. As descriptions are generalizations and identifiers, they are illusions. When we look through these illusions, there is no thing there. No thing can only be described as it is what it is whatever it is....