A Forested Piece of Mike’s Mind…By request, my column this month is portions of the TREES sermon from August 1st.Elif Shafak, the brilliant Turkish/British author, in a perspective-taking experiment wrote: Humans do not see trees. They walk by us every day. They sit and sleep, smoke and picnic and secretly kiss in our shade. They pluck […]
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A Maladjusted Piece of Mike’s Mind…My column this month is the conclusion of the sermon from June 18th.Krishnamurti famously said, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Which is another way of saying that being maladjusted is about the sanest, most spiritually mature thing we could do.I […]
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MercyOur Whole Souul Living Theme for July is Mercy, surely a precious and scarce commodity in 2021. For years, maybe since the beginning, politics and the news is dominated by quick judgement, false certainty, and the drumbeat of fearing strangers. Still, wisdom from the ages is clear; “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be […]
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LiberationLiberation is our Whole Souul Living Theme for June. Broadly speaking, Liberation can be political, physical, emotional, spiritual, or all of the above. Typically, liberation assumes a current or previous condition of being bounded or restricted, and things get interesting when we consider that it is possible to be unaware of our own bondage. Consider […]
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