Tag Archives: Becoming Human

To Be Moved or Not to Be Moved

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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious person's attitude toward history and nature. ~ Abraham Heschel My original passion for the writings (not to mention the life) of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on whose works I wrote Read more [...]

When Religion Goes off the Rails ~ A Life-Line

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Today's Life-Line is: Religion becomes sinful when it begins to advocate the segregation of God, to forget that the true sanctuary has no walls. Religion has always suffered from the tendency to become an end in itself, to seclude the holy, to become Read more [...]

Rugged Individualists or Mutually Enhancing Participants?

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Not for ourselves alone are we born. ~ Cicero No one becomes human, no one becomes oneself by oneself. None of us become who we have been created by God to be without others. Becoming human, let alone becoming oneself, involves and requires human connection, Read more [...]

The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

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Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Asks Brother Po a Question

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The human face . . . is a synonym for the incarnation of uniqueness. ~ Abraham Heschel To see a face is already to hear ‘You shall not kill.’  Emmanuel Levinas Any human face is a claim on you, because you can’t help but understand the Read more [...]

Being Alive to the Aliveness of God

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If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. . . Let us embrace reality. ~ Thomas Merton Nineteenth century American poet Emily Dickinson famously wrote "Tell the truth/ but tell it slant." These days, from where I'm sitting, Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Life as Preparation for the Great Giveaway

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The text was the Gospel of John, chapter 12, verse 24. The words were those of Jesus. A foreshadowing of his fate. His fate not being some final, static state, feeble as nothing and dead as a cross nail, but transformed, alive, vivacious, and bearing Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (2)

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AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 2. . . continued from December 3, 2019 MYSELF: I’d like to pick up where we left off. Read more [...]