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Showing posts with label Principle 4 Seeking Truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Principle 4 Seeking Truth. Show all posts
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Who can you accept as an authority figure?

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Jeff, you wrote >>   In general, how is one supposed to distinguish an acceptable authority figure form those we are are to reject? ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Lenten Reflections, topic ten, Embarking on the path to peace and bliss."

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Topic ten, "Embarking on the path to peace and bliss," is available on Fipgrid. You can access it by clicking here. This topi...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Daily reflections, Day eighteen, The Road Less Traveled

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Day eighteen The road less traveled “Miracles bear witness to truth. They are convincing because they arise from conviction. With...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Where do Unitarian Universalists stand on truth telling in the age of Trumpism?

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What do Unitarian Universalists teach about truth telling and bearing false witness? Is Donald Trump's lying and dissembling and hi...
Friday, July 26, 2019

A Course In Miracles and Unitarian Universalism - where should I search for truth and meaning?

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It is written in A Course In Miracles: T-29.VII.5. Idols must fall because they have no life, and what is lifeless is a sign of death. ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

A Course In Miracles and Unitarian Universalism - What am I denying?

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Do I really want to see what I denied? If you say “yes”, it means giving up the ego and many people find this hard to do wholehe...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Osho and the UU fourth principle

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The fourth principle of Unitarian Universalism is to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Having ado...
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Monday, March 18, 2019

UUs are fourth principle people

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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon Unitarian ...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Today's lesson - There has to be a better way.

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Today's lesson is lesson 55 in A Course In Miracles and is a review lesson of lessons 21 - 25 which are: "I am determined to see...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Today's lesson - God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.

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Today's lesson, number 49 in A Course In Miracles, is "God's Voice speaks to me all through the day." I remember seei...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Today's lesson - God is the Mind with which I think.

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Today's lesson, number 45, from A Course In Miracles is "God is the Mind with which I think." Decartes famously said, ...
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Thursday, February 7, 2019

Do you have the integrity and courage to take the road less taken?

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Had a discussion Monday with a 30 year old client who has been struggling to discern his calling in life. He told me how he had started down...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Is the garden of your mind one of beautiful flowers or prickers, weeds, and thorns?

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To what extent is the "garden of your mind" the land of illusions?  In A Course Of Miracles it describes "right minded...

If all the world's a stage where am I to search for truth and meaning?

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A Course In Miracles tells us that the world we see on the path of the ego is made up of illusions. It is not real. The only thing that is r...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Today's lesson, 32, "I have invented the world I see."

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Psychologists call it a "self fulfilling prophecy," meaning that we see what we expect. The placebo effect is another example o...
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Saturday, January 26, 2019

On The Shortness of Life - "Life is long enough" if it is well lived.

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At church two weeks ago an acquaintance shared with me that he is a student of stoic philosophy. I was delighted to learn this, because ...
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Book - Why Religion by Elaine Pagels

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Elaine Pagels, a scholor of religion at Princeton University, became famous with her first book, Gnostic Gospels in 1979. Since that book sh...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Today's lesson - I want to see things differently.

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Lesson 28 in A Course In Miracles states, "Above all else I want to see things differently." What the lesson seems to want to t...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Is your life in balance?

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Osho tells us, "The truth of life is found through balance and harmony. Those who go to the extreme in any direction wander away fro...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

If you don't find what you are looking for, choose again.

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Osho says, "Truth is one, but the doors to find it can be many. And if you become attached to the door itself, you will stop at the ...
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