More books

Aug 08, 2004 22:47

So, I am still reading necessary illusions, but all of these books are starting to get me down. I bought another book today at half-price called "A Force More Powerful." It is about the successful non-violent conflicts of the last century. Obviously, one of these conflicts is the story of Ghandi. In my mind this type of activism is the only ( Read more... )

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the things that keep us up at night silentscavenger August 10 2004, 14:10:51 UTC
When we walk with the Lamb, it is important to note that it becomes a bit of a test sometimes to understand what sort of conflicts are in our lives. Everyday, people ignorantly walk, or crawl, through their existance doing things that may negatively effect thier environment, including it's people and organisms. Sometimes people recognize these transgressions (of thier own, and of others) and thats the sort of thing that perhaps keeps them up at night. Sometimes they pay no attention whatsoever and sleep like babies. My point is, and going back to the lamb, is that when a deep seeded personal goal is to somehow leave this world one day a better place than which you found it, it's easy to focus on negative issues and have them leave you awake at night. Unfortunatly so, it also opens the door to more fears as you are sub-consciously willing to accept them as challenges to meet sometime along your path, again so you can leave the world a better place by having banished them. This is in my opinion, why they who struggle are blessed. Life ( ... )

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