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Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

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I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what i want to learn is how to live i...more

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So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of unin...more

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Culturally, though not theologically, I’m a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great tea...more

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I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything thi...more

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But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with thick, dark hair, He would have made me t...more

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[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils....more

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Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

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But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pi...more

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The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees. For hours a day, the sa...more

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But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the ...more

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Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic p...more

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I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunl...more

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I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own t...more

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In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going...more