Reality Gap Excerpt
Speak truth. Do compassion. But resign yourself to the fact it will all be interpreted and misinterpreted through each individual's lens of experience. Read the rest: Reality Gap
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Conveniently Rational Munitions excerpt
Excuses abound for our sins. Reasons aplenty explain our self-absorption. The endless cycle, a parent and necessity and social norms driving our individual role in the great churning engine, the malevolent engine, the malignant engine of personal and societal cause and effect excusing, always excusing, our actions and inactions. Read more of Conveniently Rational Munitions Threads of Smoke
Copyright 2021 Don Ray. Feel free to print and share. Life. Death. Defining time. Moments gone before recognized, cherished only in their departure. There is no holding them. There is no conveying them. We see them only as fading images, each already past, leaving its dimming imprint, dissolving to wipe the sand clean, making room for the next experience, a curious assemblage of rapidly fading images sewn together with wisps of smoke to create what we call our life. Pre-dawn Ragged Blanket excerpt
Perhaps it is necessary to reel in the discernment, to temper the intensity of life. Perhaps there is no peace to be found in that doomed intensity. Turn from it, dampen the senses, pull a ragged blanket over awareness, like the homeless do on the cold nights in the park. Read the rest: Pre-dawn Ragged Blanket Freedom From Opportunities excerpt
It is in the absence of opportunities, then we see what we will do with the life we are given, then we see who we are, when not tempted, not led, when left to our own devices. Read more of Freedom From Opportunities The Bass Voice of God
Why would God need masks or altars or guilt or amplifiers to reach us? What is it we feel in those invocations of fear, ecstasy, guilt, awe, and vibrating chest cavity? Why do we want to be manipulated? If the manipulation opens our heart and mind to Creator and Holy Spirit and Love, is it necessarily bad? Have you heard The Bass Voice of God?!...read on. Stream of Consciousness
There is of course only consciousness. Our individual consciousness, this ensemble of experiences and choices, seamlessly flows through the temporal reality that provides the opportunities for contact and interaction with other individual elements of consciousness. For an alternative take on Reality, read on...Stream of Consciousness In Need of Meadow
Tangled and obscuring are the forests of our societies, interactions the grabbing branches, conversations the ensnaring vines. Seek a meadow, seek perspective, find a spot of sunlight un-shadowed by demands and expectations. Read all of In Need of Meadow Following the Unseeable
....the greatest faith is forged not by following unambiguous instructions written in flaming letters pointing down a well-lit path. The greatest faith is forged and polished in the dark and noise and ambiguity and uncertainty that is real life, life demanding we participate in ongoing Creation not by following specific instructions to accomplish a dictated design, but by making the free choices incumbent on the children of God in playing their role in creating that design..... Read more of Following the Unseeable |
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