Category: Culture
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American Politics and the Spice of Independence
To be politically independent means being true to our integrity, and we cannot be true to our integrity without also being spiritually independent. To be more than the product of our impulses, we must live with a heart surrendered, that we might access the wisdom within our soul as conveyed to us through the…
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Honoring the Essence of the Earth: What is Peace?
Peace is the substance of collective maturity. It is the inevitable outcome of sufficient ripened souls. Hundreds of years may be required before humanity attains the cultural capacity for pervasive peace, because of all the entrenched bureaucracies and theologies which trend toward something different. Governments all claim that they desire peace, but their actions…
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Honoring the Essence of the Earth: What is Freedom?
If we are to believe in a soul, and that this soul survives our mortal existence, then it follows that this soul very possibly preceded us as well. Many of us confuse heart and soul, but it’s clear that there must be a distinction. Clearly, the heart can be traced to conception, or at…