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Humility: Personal Work
True humility is always personal work. As interconnected as I believe that we human and other beings are with one another, when it comes to this thing we call humility, the working of it, the owning it, the practicing of … Continue reading
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Humility: Good Questions
In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? ~ Jack Kornfield We might differ on what matters the most in the end, but these three … Continue reading
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Humility: Leveling the Field
Compassion is not condescension, but a leveling of the playing field, a recognition of yourself in others and an acceptance that their stress is your stress, that their happiness is your own. The gulf between us all is imaginary, born … Continue reading
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Humility: Strong, Like the Earth
Humility. Humble. Humiliate. Humus. That last word is not the good, golden stuff made from chick peas! (that’s hummus). Humus is the starting place for a discussion on humility. We have talked about this in our services recently at the … Continue reading
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Love: Destroying Enemies?
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?” Abraham Lincoln. I have in my notes that this was quoted at the morning service at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett five years ago today. It raised … Continue reading
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Love: Habits
I am paying a little more attention these days to the habits that leave their mark on my life. Recently, what was our last family pet, a beloved dog, passed away. I say “last family pet” because, at 18, she … Continue reading
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Justice: Mirror or Glass?
We told this story as part of our service yesterday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett. In Hasidic tradition there is a beautiful story that illustrates the moral danger implicit in mirrors. A very rich young man went to … Continue reading
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Justice: Digging In
Justice shows up, finally, where we decide to dig in. I rather think this last kind is a product of the first two. 1) I know because I am human. 2) I understand, eventually, because I struggle. And then, with … Continue reading
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Justice: Hidden in Reaction
Justice shows up–sort of hiding at times–in what we resist and in what confuses us. Because I have not experienced everything, because I don’t have all knowledge, because being human also means living with limitations, there are things that you … Continue reading
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Justice: Naturally
Justice shows up naturally. In everything that I want and need for myself, I know in some respect what you want and need for yourself. I can even make the assumption that the things that I need and want for … Continue reading
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