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Magi And Epiphanies
Today is the Feast of the Epiphany. Traditionally, this is the Christmas celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In many countries in the West, this is the Feast of the Three Kings, when children, specially in Spain, get to receive … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Gratitude, Learning, Search
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Questions And Answers
Man yearns and searches for certainty and answers. A lot of questions usually crop up in his searching. Easy answers answers are usually the wrong answers. And so are obvious answers often. Can a helpless baby born under simple, humble … Continue reading
The Lord Of The Gaps
“What are you looking for?” Jesus asked the two disciples of John. What I am looking has many and different names: happiness, success, eternal life, salvation, meaning, significance, contribution, fulfillment. I realize is there are a lot of gaps in … Continue reading
Beginnings And Bridges
The New Year is a new beginning. Like every new day, it brings with it the promise and hope for better things. It is already a blessing to be celebrating the new year. In the beginning, there was nothing – … Continue reading
To Be Is To Love
“I think therefore I am.” With one simple statement, Descartes has spawned a new school of Philosophy and the rationalistic and scientific culture we see dominant in the West today. It also explains the intense individualism (“I am.”) we see … Continue reading
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Tagged Learning, Search
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Thorny Flowers
It has been a weekend of pain and suffering, brought about by anger, violence and hatred. Las Vegas. Edmonton. Marseille. Before those, Charlottesville. London. Barcelona. How can we keep on inflicting pain and suffering on one another? We humans are … Continue reading
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Tagged Prayer, Sadness, Search
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The Presence In My Life
There is in every human being an abiding sense of awe and wonder. We are always asking questions, specially why, and forever seeking answers. From my earliest recollections, I have been trying to find out what my life is supposed … Continue reading
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Tagged Home, Poetry, Search, Signs and Wonders
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Change Begins With Me And In Me
Then one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, “Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us too.” And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to … Continue reading
Plates, Branches and I
I have this image right now in my mind of a juggler spinning a plate at the end of a stick he holds. And then he spins another one simultaneously, and then another and another until I cannot imagine anymore … Continue reading
“What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed.”
I have always loved quotations and sayings that inspire, that strike a chord of something deep within me. Alexander Pope once wrote: “What oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed.” In my younger years, such quotations were often hard … Continue reading
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