Neil Durso

Pride is tricky. Best a mystery of love

With soul, the ego can; without ego, the soul won’t.

Thundering velvet hand

…a thundering velvet hand His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand

Hours earlier, these droplets formed out of the morning mist. Settled here, they endow even greater beauty to an already beautiful image of God’s presence in nature’s cathedral. On this altar, these droplets are separate, yet from, and of, the same substance. The same essence. They will, hours from now, be transformed, imperceptibly, still theContinue reading “Angels In the Mist”

Protected: The Sometimes of Individual Freedom: Treatise on Soul

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A response to religious bribery (corruption)

It’s deeply interesting to me that the religious corruption cited here is largely, to me, indeed a corruption of religious traditions themselves, and by the most visible/vocal religious adherents themselves. This is what gave rise to Nietzsche’s announcement that, “God is dead.” And it is the corrupt God-following zealots who killed God—who corrupted the wisdomContinue reading “A response to religious bribery (corruption)”

The glass-half-full metaphor

No one is transformed by thinking. It is our nature to *relate*, not contain.