13-- What is a gift you've always wished to receive but haven't yet? This can be as literal or figurative as fits ( Read more... )

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I have loved the Bhagavad Gita (in the English translations i have read) but rankled at the advice Krishna (Brahman) gives to Prince Arjuna( This probably will be long and likely obtuse. Read more... )

"The new Civil War death toll numbers (up to 850,000 deaths) have stirred the pot afresh. In reporting the new statistics, the Times, for example, took an unexpected pot shot at veteran historian James M. McPherson, one among countless scholars who have long accepted the earlier 620,000 number. The article called out the dean of the field for using ( Read more... )

At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines ( Read more... )

"....To help reader grasp what a Christian way of life entails, (Martin) Luther laid out two principles upon which ethics may be based ( Read more... )

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Perhaps one day... we can .. possess the essential wonder of universal love. When that happens, we will no longer see people we despise - only people who represent certain aspects of the greater oneness that is also us.

Derek Lin - Commenting of Chapter 37 of the Tao Te Ching
Das Tao Te King von Derek Lin