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Preface to William James’ “Varieties of Religious Experience”

"[William James] believed, with many another religious thinker, that the sinner is closer to God than the conventionally good man, because life is given us as a passion; it is, as Keats said, a vale of soul-making.  What is characteristic of life is the thing that antedates and denies convention. Convention trims, distorts, and suppresses, [...]

“You better start kissing me” (by Hafiz)

 
Throw away Your begging bowls at God’s door
For I have heard the Beloved Prefers sweet threatening shouts,
Something on the order of:
Hey, Beloved, My heart is a raging volcano of love for you!
You better start kissing me – Or else!"

My Manifesto (by Marc)

I create opportunities for creative people to meet and engage
I research, review and publish resources that help people live richer, fuller, more loving lives
More than anything in the world, I love to write
I show people how to grow their web business and traffic
I know that the choice to be happy is available to me in [...]

The Importance Of Investing (by Rebekah)

I’ve been contemplating lately on the importance of investing, not in a 401K account, but in our pleasurable lives.  Vic Baranco, founder of Lafayette Morehouse, used to say  “you can only coast in one direction, down.”  Having a good and pleasurable life doesn’t just happen.  You have to reach up, all the time.   Recently, our [...]

Don’t worry, you are going to be alright (by Marc)

Two days ago I wrote major post to the polyphasic sleep blog (which is where I put my thoughts-in-formation), excerpted below:
“What is gradually emerging is that the leading edge of my own development is deepening and clarifying my relationship with my wife, Rebekah.  This is an awesome yet shocking realization – awesome in terms of [...]

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"Enlightenment is when you realize that what was planned is a party"

-- Victor Baranco


"I would say it in this sentence: “We were made for ecstasy.” We were made for ecstasy. Every human being is made for ecstasy. And not just an occasional ecstasy, but to live on a level of everyday that life is full of thanksgiving, full of wonder, full of awe, full of good sexual loving, and full of good everything. We are made for that. We have the capacity to be joyful, happy, loving, creative people. We have the capacity to do that. That’s it. We have that possibility. Everybody wants to feel good and not just human beings but a worm wants to feel good. Everything wants to feel good. And feeling good is a transcendent state. It is not the flatland. When you are in it, in a real high mood on a Shalom Retreat, you are in an altered state of consciousness. Shalom is an altered state. My commitment in my own life is that I can live that way. Everyday. Now I don’t do it everyday, but I intend it everyday. So to learn to love is to learn to alter flatland consciousness."

-- Jerry Jud in Love is an Intention


"Describe the steps you would take, the gifts you would buy, the generosity you would bestow, the kindness you would offer, the enthusiasm you would have, the attention you would give, and anything else that appeals to you, if you were able to give yourself the things you want someone else to give to you.

NONE OF US WANTS TO GROW UP"

-- Cheri Huber


"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

--Howard Thurman


"The true test of your spiritual success is the happiness of the people around you."

-- Rudi


"When Love beckons follow him, though his ways are hard and steep...if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires...to know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love...to wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

-- Kahlil Gibran


Throw away
Your begging bowls at God’s door

For I have heard the Beloved
Prefers sweet threatening shouts,

Something on the order of:

Hey, Beloved,
My heart is a raging volcano
of love for you!

You better start kissing me –
Or else!"

-- Hafiz


"You don't need to get what you want if you can express what you want"

-- Strephon Kaplan-Williams


"The heart has its reasons that Reason knows not of."

-- Blaise Pascal