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Tag Archives: midlife
“The Young Messiah”
I think I’m here just to be alive. To see it. Hear it. Feel it. All of it. Even when it hurts.
Dark Night of the Soul (8) – Richard Rohr
In crisis, shoulds and oughts don’t help. Love wins out over guilt any day.
Thundering velvet hand
…a thundering velvet hand His gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand
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)”
Dark Night of the Soul (3) – Michael Mirdad
[3 minute read] If you’d like shallower but wider presentation than the earlier selected excerpts, before diving into their full sources, here’s a decent soup-to-nuts application, all on one (long) page. Nicely synthesized and broadened for a comtemporary, if somewhat New-Age commercial consumer market, I’m comfortable endorsing it as orthodox enough to the original: “…notContinue reading “Dark Night of the Soul (3) – Michael Mirdad”
Feel with Neil 