Life is a process. Peace, a "state" is Death & Illusion

A rock has peace. Is that what we want?

'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' Jesus[Jesus] came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. [Jesus] came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others." Teresa of Calcutta

"Our Father ... Deliver us [ALL to PeaceMAKING]

I think this may be it!

Our Father...
Lead us not to "ME,"
But Deliver us [ALL to Militant PeaceMAKING]

Semantics? Wordsmithing?

We've got to get this right.
Global Salviation is at stake.

Massive Western Fetish for Health / Pulse is Sin

"Nothing is so tempting as evil in the guise of virtue," Dr. Martin Luther King.

Life, our greats throughout history are the opposite! We in our finest moments are the opposite! Not pulse!!! Not flesh!!! "WE!" From my Soul in Solidarity Serving!

Only Militant PeaceMAKING can eliminate Hate

Hmm. Dr. King was incorrect in saying, "Only love [can eliminate hate.]" It is not that easy. Maybe Dr. King meant Militant Loving, but we need to be specific. I'm trying to learn the words that are less likely to enable the HYPOCRISY that we are so tenacious in pursuing.

Only Militant PeaceMAKING can eliminate hate.

Only PeaceMAKING is Peace

'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' Jesus

[Jesus] came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. [Jesus] came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others." Teresa of Calcutta

Heaven is PeaceMAKING

'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' Jesus

[Jesus] came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other. [Jesus] came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others." Teresa of Calcutta

"Right to Life" is usually a sin against Our Father - Spirit

Was Jesus focus "Pulse?"

Jesus focus was "Life," "Spirit!"

PEACEMAKERS MUST MAKE PEACEMAKERS

PeaceMakers make Peace, right? WRONG!!!!!!!!

PeaceMAKERS make PEACEMAKERS!!!! Think of:

• Gandhi
• King
• Jesus
• Teresa....

Note: Moneymakers do not make money! They build organizations or take other ACTION and money is the RESULT.

MONEY IS A RESULT. MoneyMAKING is the ACTION!

PEACE IS A RESULT. PeaceMAKING is the ACTION!

HYPOCRISY. Almost ALL OF US, all the time?

HYPOCRISY. This word has has little use for me in the last 30 years. It just has not registered, relative to myself, or relative to the being of others.

HYPOCRISY meant very much to me in my late teens! What happened??!?!

I lost my Vision.

Now, as I try to recapture that vision that I had as a youngster, I begin again to see that virtually all of us are consummate HYPOCRITES!

"Our Father... Deliver us [ALL to Heaven]..."

USCCB - NAB - John 14 "12 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these..."

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us to evil." I don't think this captures what Jesus was getting at.

"Lead us not into temptation..." is OK, however "Deliver us from evil..." SAYS THE SAME THING!

We need to know where Our Father wants us to lead ourselves and others. I think this is close:

"Our Father... Deliver us [ALL to Heaven]..."

YOUR FUTURE: FOR "THE LEAST OF THESE" WHAT WOULD IT BE?

USCCB - NAB - Matthew 25 "45 He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for ONE of these least ones, you did not do for me. 46 And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." This is the whole deal of Jesus teachings. "[Everything] depends on each man's efforts and striving to make people see that life is given, not for oneself personally, but for the fulfillment of the Father's will, which alone saves from death and gives life." The Gospel in Brief.

Punishment? NO! Jesus is not about that. Sin [error] / Divorce from Our Father / Divorce from Love-Life-Truth? YES!!! Jesus died to tell us about this; about NATURAL CONSEQUENCES!

Unless you work for Doctors Without Borders or the like then probably 99.9% of the people you've ever met or heard about... we all RELIGIOUSLY VIOLATE THIS (Jesus' exhortations above.)

There are three issues in considering our return to Love / Life / Truth - Our Father:

1. Type of Occupation: Tanning Salon, Gated Community Development, Video Games are examples of occupations that are extremely unlikely to be LARGELY for the "least of these."
2. Clientele: We are the rich man that neglected Lazarus (Luke 16 19-31). Can you face what I could not? We are a society of Prostitutes, Pimps and Narcotic Pushers. We cannot Save ourselves or others by selling "Narcotics" (addictions to stuff, superiority, and institutions) to materially rich folks. Can we.
3. How much Love: "It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving." Teresa of Calcutta. What we are dying for is Models of Life / Loving / Militant Brotherliness / being Christian.

QUALITY or QUANTITY of LIFE. You WILL choose.

"A [person] is not equipped to live until s/he knows what s/he would die for." ML King

"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, 20 take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 21 26 What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?" USCCB - NAB - Matthew 16

“He who is committed to. the poor must share the. same fate as the poor” ... Oscar Romero

Abe Lincoln on ETHICS and CHURCH

Abraham Lincoln On Ethics
An article on Lincoln's personal code of ethics and his view of business ethics, based on an excerpt from the one-man play “Lincoln Live”
by Gene Griessman

“What does it mean to be ethical?

As far as I’m concerned, it means treating others the way you’d want to be treated.

I never joined a church because the churches of my day required you to subscribe to a particular doctrine or creed. I told a minister who was trying to recruit me that if I ever found a church that would inscribe over its altar only two requirements, I would join that church with all my heart: The first requirement would be, ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.’ The second requirement would be, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’

I reckon that anyone who keeps those two commandments will never have a problem with any legitimate code of ethics. The second great commandment is really the basis of the Golden Rule—loving your neighbor as yourself.

Being ethical means being honest. Perhaps the greatest asset was being known as Honest Abe. It was a good name, and I believe that a good name is more to be desired than great riches.

I made it a practice to be so clear that no honest man could misunderstand me and no dishonest one could successfully misrepresent me

As you know, I’m a lawyer; and, yes, there were lawyer jokes back in the 1800s. I remember a story about a preacher back in Indiana who was conducting a funeral service for a prominent lawyer. At one point in his eulogy, the minister said, “Here lies a successful lawyer and an honest man.” A woman in the audience whispered to her friend: “We need to take a peek to see if there are two bodies in the casket?”

I happen to believe that a lawyer can be honest. In fact I found that clients often had more trouble telling the truth than lawyers did.

Here’s some advice I gave young lawyers: “Resolve to be honest at all events. If, in your own judgment, you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.”

If you’re ethical, you’ll strive to be knowledgeable. In the 1800s it was common for people to talk about “living up to the light” that one had. It was an excellent way of admitting in advance that one could be mistaken because of lack of knowledge. I like that concept, and used it in my Second Inaugural Address: “With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right” is the way I said it in my second inaugural address.

But there's something more important than knowing the truth, and that’s knowing what to do with the truth. A village idiot might stumble upon the truth, tell everybody in sight, and do irreparable damage. Being wise involves knowing when to tell the truth, knowing how to tell the truth, knowing who to tell it to, and even deciding if you should tell it at all. Some truth should never be told--like when my wife Mary asked me what I thought of one of her ridiculous-looking new hats.

Being ethical doesn’t mean that you be suicidal. .

If you’re ethical, you’ll strive to use good judgment. The true rule in determining to accept or reject any thing is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost every thing…is an inseparable compound of the two so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."

Archbishop Oscar Romero Quotes

Archbishop Oscar Romero

"We have never preached violence, except the violence of love,which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we musteach do to ourselves, to overcome our selfishness and such cruelinequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violenceof the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love,of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons intosickles for work.

"Those committed to the poor must share the same fate as the poor.

"A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true church of Jesus Christ. A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good, so that they are secured in their sinful state, betrays the gospel's call. (1/22/78).

"When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises (8/6/78).

"The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the nights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history (8/6/79).

“I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.”

"Aspire not to have more but to be more.

"Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

"Defence of human rights, equality, and freedom… is a matter of policy… rooted in the gospel.

"The poor have shown the church the true way to go. A church that does not speak out from the side of the poor is not the true church of Jesus.

"The gospel is the great defender and proclaimer of all the great fundamental rights of the person. The fundamental right to…… Food & Water, Shelter; Protection; Medicine; Education; Work; Rest; Freedom; Respect; Dignity; Fullness of Life.

"The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword; ... it is the violence of love.

"Let my blood be a seed of freedom.

"I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective
end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root
of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion
of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All
this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest
flows naturally. September 23, 1979.

"I'm deeply impressed by that moment when Christ stands alone
before the world figured in Pilate. The truth is left alone, his
own followers have been afraid. Truth is fearfully daring, and
only heroes can follow the truth. So much so that Peter, who has
said he will die if need be, flees like a coward and Christ
stands alone.

"Let's not be afraid to be left alone if it's for the sake of the
truth. Let's be afraid to be demagogs, coveting the people's sham
flattery. If we don't tell them the truth, we commit the worst
sin: betraying the truth and betraying the people. Christ would
rather be left alone, but able to say before the world figured in
Pilate: Everyone who hears my voice belongs to the truth. Feast
of Christ the King, 1979.

"Would that the many bloodstained hands in our land were lifted
up to the Lord with horror of their stain to pray that he might
cleanse them. But let those who, thanks to God, have clean
hands -- the children, the sick, the suffering -- lift up their
innocent and suffering hands to the Lord like the people of
Israel in Egypt. The Lord will have pity and will say, as he did
to Moses in Egypt, "I have heard my people's cry of wailing. It
is the prayer that God cannot fail to hear. September 18, 1977

"The church is calling to sanity, to understanding, to love. It
does not believe in violent solutions. The church believes in
only one violence, that of Christ, who was nailed to the cross.
That is how today's gospel reading shows him, taking upon himself
all the violence of hatred and misunderstanding, so that we
humans might forgive one another, love one another, feel
ourselves brothers and sisters. November 20, 1977.

"We have never preached violence, except the violence of love,
which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must
each do to ourselves, to overcome our selfishness and such cruel
inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence
of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love,
of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons into
sickles for work. November 27, 1977

"Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father
Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who
have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are
listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps
already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness. December
18, 1977

"A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of
the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good so that they
become entrenched in their sinful state, betrays the gospel's
call. A preaching that does not discomfit sinners but lulls them
in their sin leaves Zebulun and Naphtali in the shadow of death.

"A preaching that awakens, a preaching that enlightens -- as when
a light turned on awakens and of course annoys a sleeper -- that
is the preaching of Christ, calling, "wake up! Be converted!"
this is the church's authentic preaching. Naturally, such
preaching must meet conflict, must spoil what is miscalled
prestige, must disturb, must be persecuted. It cannot get along
with the powers of darkness and sin. January 22, 1978

"And so, brothers and sisters, I repeat again what I have said
here so often, addressing by radio those who perhaps have caused
so many injustices and acts of violence, those who have brought
tears to so many homes, those who have stained themselves with
the blood of so many murders, those who have hands soiled with
tortures, those who have calloused their consciences, who are
unmoved to see under their boots a person abased, suffering,
perhaps ready to die. To all of them I say: no matter your
crimes. They are ugly and horrible, and you have abased the
highest dignity of a human person, but God calls you and forgives
you. And here perhaps arises the aversion of those who feel they
are laborers from the first hour. How can I be in heaven with
those criminals? Brothers and sisters, in heaven there are no
criminals. The greatest criminal, once he has repented of his
sins, is now a child of God. September 24, 1978

"PEACE" IS SIN. "PEACE" MEANS GENOCIDE.

Please forgive my poor articulation as follows. This post holds that "PEACE" IS A SIN. It holds that "NONVIOLENCE" IS A SIN. It speaks only of "Peace." The argument against "Nonviolence" is exactly the same. I believe this is a matter of gravest consequence, life and death, not semantics.

• Maybe Teresa said it best: "[Jesus said,] 'My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you.' He came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't bother each other[!!!!!!!] [Jesus] came to give the Peace of heart which comes from loving - from doing good to others. "
• Jesus Teaching was simply and entirely Love / Brotherliness / PeaceMAKING.
• Peace is NOT Love / Brotherliness / PeaceMAKING; but rather its fruit; but the fruit is not the source!!!
• Only Loving / Brotherliness is Loving / Brotherliness / PeaceMAKING.
• If we embrace "Peace" we displace and defeat Loving / Brotherliness / PeaceMAKING.

Clearly this is a sin; a mortal error.

"The opposite of love [PeaceMAKING] is not hate; the opposite of love [PeaceMAKING] is indifference or apathy ["Peace"]." Rollo May

"Peace" is too deathly close to "indifference" or "apathy." Start Loving

Archbishop Oscar Romero: "We have never preached violence, except the violence of love,which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves, to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work."

Militant PeaceMAKING, Militant Loving, Militant Brotherliness, the "Violence of Love" is our sole "Weapon." "Peace" is to displace this and to unilaterally disarm ourselves; to remove ourselves from opposition to War / Hatred / Destruction. God save us from continuing this.

JUSTICE WORK IS A SIN

Jesus taught Loving / Brotherliness / PeaceMAKING - NOT JUSTICE.

We do one or the other.

JUSTICE WILL ALWAYS BE CULTIVATED WITH LOVING!!!!!!!!!!

Loving will rarely if ever result from Justice. Why? Loving is of the Heart / the Almighty. Justice is of the Head.

CHARITY WORK IS A SIN

Jesus taught Loving / Brotherliness / PeaceMAKING - NOT CHARITY.

We do one or the other.

CHARITY WILL ALWAYS COME WITH LOVING!!!!!!!!!!

Loving will rarely if ever come with Charity. Why? Loving is of the Heart / the Almighty. Charity is of the Head / Flesh with just a twinge of Heart.

"I AM PROFOUNDLY REDUNDANT." START

There is a profound redundancy to much of my writing, because there is a profound redundancy to much of my experience. De ja vu all over again.

Why partake in, why indulge this redundancy? It has to do with this fact: "The greatest distance," our rabbis teach, "is from the head to the heart." We have been so deformed, so perverted by the culture we have been crippled by that we must revisit, revisit... and experience "for the first time" Truth, over, and over.... To reshape our bodies requires enormous repetition of the same exercise, each time attacking as though every repetition was Truly our first time! And for the greatest athletes, they probably experience the 1 millionth repetition Truly as "their first time!"

And the Truth is so entirely "foreign" to us as a result of our enculturation that it takes many, many, many, many encounters before we can really see the Truth "face to face," and even then....

So it is with me.

"I STRIVE TO BE A DIRE THREAT," START LOVING

I strive to be a dire threat. There is some evidence I am beginning to succeed. The evidence is very bitter sweet.

I've lost one of the few long term friends that ever I have had. Usually, by definition you can't lose a friend. Love never ends. And deep, deep down this person still has a spark of Love for me I am sure. But, he finally sees what I've always tried to be clear on: I am striving to become a dire threat to everything "normal" in our society. As a highly trained "Dr." of Humanity / Psychology I am convinced that we are crippling ourselves beyond all recognition of health, at the price of Life and Joy. Consequently I am dedicated to becoming a "Cure," "Mass Therapy," "Chemo (painful)."

"Be the change you wish to see." Gandhi

“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." Mohandas Gandhi

I see no other way to change than what they propose.

Among the evidence that "Cure" is underway in Chemo is when the Dr. makes the patients feel "Sick." This deeply pains the good Dr. But they go on making their beloved, sick, as best they can, for the Promise of the ordeal.

"START, YOU ARE SO UNUSUALLY SANE"

Someone that has come to know me quite well made this comment out of the blue yesterday, although it has apparantly been on this friend's mind for quite some time. Quite a curious statement about someone whose behavior shouts, every day, that the way we are living in this society is clinically crazy, CRAZY. The way I lived, the way 99.9999% of us in the U.S. "live" is clinically CRAZY I think, and "stout" at the top of my proverbial "lungs" every day.

*** YOU GET WHAT YOU "PAY FOR" ***

Usually these Posts are a pure, if painful Joy for me. This one is different.

This Post is extremely sobering. It is also among the most important. It also is Joyful

"You get what you pay for." What a mundane every-day expression. What a profound revelation of the Truth.

What do we adults pay for with our lives? For our Dearest? For "the least of these my family?"

• Heaven on Earth? NO
• Global Brotherhood / Family? NO
• The Kingdom? NO
• "Salvation" for ourselves? NO
• "Salvation" for "the least of these..? NO
• "Salvation" for our Dearest? NO

This is great news! Imagine if we changed the answer to "YES!"

Imagine.

IMAGINE!

Mother Teresa responds, “No, God doesn’t call me to be successful; God calls me to be faithful.”

The point? We are individually rewarded with Joy / Life / Love for the attempt, INFINITELY, AND we "fund" the construction of Heaven, GUARANTEED.

"REASONABLENESS" IS THE DEVIL.

"There is nothing so tempting as evil in the garb of virtue." Dr. Martin Luther King

"Reasonableness / Mind" [OF THE FLESH / SELFISHNESS / NOT-HEART / NOT-SPIRIT] is the source of Evil?

"Reasonableness / Mind" [OF THE FLESH / SELFISHNESS / NOT-HEART, NOT-SPIRIT] is the source of Genocide?

"Reasonableness / Mind" CAUSES the Genocide of our Western "Neglect" that results in 18,000 children needlessly starving per day, for example?!??!?!? Yes of course. IT IS ENTIRELY REASONABLE TO NEGLECT "THE LEAST OF THESE" SO THAT "I CAN TAKE CARE OF "MY OWN." "

YES!

Unfortunately, such "reasonableness" is a total and entire rejection of The Almighty, of God.

Paul had much to warn us about this:

Romans 1 28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 8 5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6The mind of sinful man[e] is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the sinful mind[f] is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

As Jesus told us we WILL have one of two Fathers

1. Heart (the Almighty) or
2. Flesh (Mammon, Devil).

"We must demand that we pay higher prices..."

"And I have to say, you know, if we want to live in a safe world, we need to be -- we must be willing, and, in fact, we must demand that we pay higher prices for things like laptop computers and cell phones and that a good share of that money go back to the people who are mining the coltan. And that’s true of oil. It’s true of so many resources that we are not paying the true cost, and there’s millions of people around the world suffering from that. Roughly 50,000 people die every single day from hunger or hunger-related diseases and curable diseases that they don’t get the medicines for, simply because they’re part of a system that demands that they put in long hours, and they get very, very low pay, so we can have things cheaper in this country. And the Congo is an incredibly potent example of that. "

From John Perkins on "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption"

"And then, one day I was on vacation, sailing in the Virgin Islands, and I anchored my little boat off the St. John Island, and I took the dinghy in, and I climbed this mountain on St. John Island in the Virgin Islands up to this old sugar cane plantation in ruins. And it was beautiful. Bougainville. The sun was setting. I sat there and felt very peaceful. And then suddenly, I realized that this plantation had been built on the bones of thousands of slaves. And then I realized that the whole hemisphere had been built on the bones of millions of the slaves. And I got very angry and sad. And then, it suddenly struck me that I was continuing that same process and that I was a slaver, that I was making the same thing happen in a slightly -- in a different way, more subtle way, but just as bad in terms of its outcome. And at that point, I made the decision I would never do it again. And I went back to Boston a couple of days later and quit."

" I came up to New York to Ground Zero, and as I stood there looking down into that terrible pit, that smoldering -- and it still smelled of burning flesh -- I realized that I had to write the book, I could no longer defer, that the American people had no understanding of why so many people around the world are angry and frustrated and terrified, and that I had to take responsibility for what happened at 9/11. In fact, we all have to take a certain responsibility, which is not in any way to condone mass murder by anybody ever -- I’m not condoning that in any way -- but I did realize that the American people needed to understand why there’s so much anger around the world. I had to write the book. "

"this empire that we’ve created really has an emperor, and it’s not the president of this country. The President serves, you know, for a short period of time. But it doesn't really matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republican in the White House or running Congress; the empire goes on, because it’s really run by what I call the corporatocracy, which is a group of men who run our biggest corporations. This isn’t a conspiracy theory. They don’t need to conspire. They all know what serves their best interest. But they really are the equivalent of the emperor, because they do not serve at the wish of the people, they’re not democratically elected, they don’t serve any limited term. They essentially answer to no one, except their own boards, and most corporate CEOs actually run their boards, rather than the other way around. And they are the power behind this.

And so, if we want to turn this around, we have to impact them very strongly, which means that we have to change the corporations, which is their power base. And what I feel very strongly is that today corporations exists for the primary purpose of making large profits, making a few very rich people a lot richer on a quarterly basis, on a daily basis, on a very short-term basis. That shouldn't be. There is no reason for that to be.

Corporations have been defined as individuals. Individuals have to be good citizens. Corporations need to be good citizens. They need to take -- their primary goal must be to take care of their employees, their customers and all the people around the world who provide the resources that go into making this world run, and to take care of the environments and the communities where those people live.

We must get the corporations to redefine themselves, and I think it’s very realistic that we can do so. Every corporate executive out there is smart enough to realize that he’s running a very failed system. As an economist, as a rational person, nobody can conclude anything otherwise. If you look at the fact that less than 5% of the world's population live in the United States and we consume more than 25% of the world's resources and create over 30% of its major pollution, you can only conclude that we’ve created a very flawed and failed system. This is not a model that can be sold to the Chinese or the Indians or the Africans or the Middle Easterners or the Latin Americans. We can’t even continue with it ourselves. It has to change. And corporate executives know that. They’re smart individuals. I believe that they want to see change.

And when we have really pushed them to change, we’ve been extremely successful. For example, we’ve got them to clean up rivers that were terribly polluted in the 1970s in this country. We got them to get rid of the aerosol cans that were destroying the ozone layer. We got them to change their policies toward hiring and promoting minorities and women. We’ve gotten them to put seatbelts in cars and airbags, against their initial resistance. We’ve got them to change tremendously in any specific area where we’ve set out to do that.

Now, it behooves us, we must convince them that their corporations need to be institutions to make this a better world, rather than institutions that serve a few very rich people and their goal is to make those people even richer. We need to turn this around. We must. "

HERO: AMY GOODMAN

Published on Monday, March 10, 2003 by the Washington Post
Peace Correspondent
'Democracy Now!' Host Amy Goodman Is Making Her Voice Heard on Iraq
by Michael Powell

NEW YORK -- And now for the news:

"President Bush last night claimed a war in Iraq would set the stage for peace in the Middle East, but he did not set any deadline or detail any specific steps." . . .

[While everyone else was passing lies, Amy was trying desperately to help us see the Truth. She continues.]

WARNING: "As you do unto the least of these..."

I've written of this before, BROTHERS AND SISTERS I HAVE NONE, but due to its insideousness this issue will not leave me and a Revelation has just hit me!


The opposite of love is not hate; the opposite of love is indifference or appathy. Rollo May

Jesus was pissed off, and giving us JESUS GREATEST WARNING, when He said, "As you do unto the least of these my family you do unto me."

Jesus was encountering what I am encountering. Everyone refuses to get it. Many people see my "witness," see my "sacrifice" and feel warmly toward it. BUT THEY WILL NOT LET THEMSELVES GO BEYOND THIS AND LOVE MY CHILDREN!!!

Matthew Chapter 25 41 17 Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.' 44 Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?' 45 He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.' 46 And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

Matthew Chapter 7 21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, 10 but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?' 23 Then I will declare to them solemnly, 'I never knew you. 11 Depart from me, you evildoers.'

Teresa of Calcutta: "To help us be worthy of heaven, Christ put as a condition that at our hour of death, you and I, regardless of whom we were (Christians or non-Christians, each human being has been created by the loving hand of God in his own likeness), will stand before God and be judged according to how we have acted toward the poor (Matthew 25:40)."

"Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love. Judged according to the love we have shown the poor, with whom God identifies: "You did it to me"(Matthew 25:40)." Teresa of Calcutta

SITE DEDICATION: GREED FOR JOY, MILITANT GLOBAL BROTHERLINESS

This site is dedicated to:

• GREED for Joy (instead of Pleasure)
• Militant Global Brotherliness
• Heaven on Earth
• Service of the Almighty - Love, Truth, Joy
• Salvation of the Individual - from Joyless Selfishness and Divorce from Humanity
• Salvation of all Humanity

"I LIVE BY FAITH ALONE," START LOVING

"I LIVE BY FAITH ALONE," START LOVING. This is an amazing realization for me this week. "I don't know who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish." -- Marshall McLuhan. For all of my life the word "Faith" was meaningless and uninteresting to me due to its profound perversion (even if unintended) by the "church."

But as I have freed myself, "Saved" myself by surrendering to Jesus and the Almighty I find that Faith is the result, that I have for many months now Lived by Faith Alone! And for my entire adult life I've navigated ALMOST totally by Faith alone, thank God.

Better than I could ever hope to Dietrich Bonhoeffer captured what this Journey of total Faith, what this wonderful, exciting, amazing, Joyful voyage I am on feels like, and what Faith IS:

“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God – the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God.”

All these are used to the fullest - Reason, Principles, Conscience, Freedom, Head / Mind, Knowledge.... But in Faith they are subordinated to the Almighty - Love / Life / Truth - HEART... for Joy.

"Follow Jesus' word."

Teresa of Calcutta

Teresa of Calcutta Quotes

IN MY OWN WORDS

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From the introduction:

All she did, in her own words, was

"follow Jesus' word."

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This is the first I've read her book in several years. The way she describes her journey is just like mine feels.

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The Almighty, the Kingdom

is in your Heart.

Stop looking outside, in buildings, in preachers.

The Kingdom of God is within you.

Be like a child and find it.

Start Loving

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LOVE

• "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

HOLINESS

• Saint Thomas Aquinas assures us that holiness "is nothing else but a resolution made, the heroic act of a soul that surrenders to God." And he adds: "Spontaneously we love God, we run towards him, we run towards him, we get close to him, we possess him."
• Our willingness is important because it changes us into the image of God and likens us to him! The decision to be holy is a very dear one.
• Renunciation, temptations, struggles, persecutions, and all kind of sacrifices are what surround the soul that has opted for holiness.
• If we do the work for God and for his glory, we may be sanctified.
• We should go out to meet people. Meet the people who live afar and those who live very close by. Meet the materially poor or the spiritually poor.
• The fact of death should not sadden us. The only thing that should sadden us is to know that we are not saints.
• To sometimes experience disgust is something quite natural. The virtue, which at times is of heroic proportions, consists in being able to overcome disgust, for love of Jesus.
• This is the secret we discover in the lives of some saints: the ability to go beyond what is merely natural.
• This is what happened to Saint Francis of Assisi. Once, when he ran into a leper who was completely disfigured, he instinctively backed up. Right away he overcame the disgust he felt and kissed the face that was completely disfigured. What was the outcome of this? Francis felt himself filled with tremendous joy. He felt totally in control of himself. And the leper went on his way praising God.
• The saints are all the people who live according to the law God has given us.

PRAYER

• "Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself."
• I believe that politicians spent too little time on their knees. I am convinced that they would be better politicians if they were to do so.
• There are some people who, in order not to pray, use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents them from praying.
  This cannot be.
• Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
• It is not necessary to always be meditating, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, No matter how nice this would be. What matters is being with him, living with him, in his will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to love the poor, is a twenty-four-hours prayer.
• Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
• The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.
• My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.
• The apostles did not know how to pray, and they asked Jesus to teach them. He, then, taught them the Our Father.
• I think that every time we say the Our Father, God looks at his hands, where we are etched. "See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands..."(Isaiah 49:16).
• What a beautiful description and also expressive of the personal love God feels for each one of us!
• Make us, Lord, worthy to serve our brothers and sisters who are scattered all over the world, who live and die alone and poor. Give them today, using our hands, their daily bread. And using our love, give them peace and happiness. Amen.
• Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depth of our hearts
• There is a player that the Missionaries of Charity pray every day.
  Cardinal Newman wrote it:
  Jesus, help me to spread your fragrance wherever I am.
  Fill my heart with your spirit and your life.
  Penetrate my being and take such hold of me that my life becomes a radiation of your own life.
  Give your light through me and remain in me such a way that every soul I come in contact with can feel your presence in me.
  Remain in me, so that I shine with your light, and may others be illuminated by my light.
  All light will come from you, Oh Jesus.
  Not even smallest ray of light will be mine. You will illuminate others through me. Place on my lips your greatest praise, illuminating others around me.
  May I preach you with actions more than with words, with example of my actions, with the visible light of the love that comes from you to my heart. Amen.
• I am asked what is one to do be sure that one is following the way of salvation. I answer: "Love God. And, above all, pray."
• Every day at communion time, I communicate two of my feelings to Jesus. One is gratefulness, because he has helped me to persevere until today. The other is a request: teach me to pray.
• Praying the Our Father and living it will lead us toward saintliness. The Our Father contains everything: God, ourselves, our neighbors...
  Silence will teach us a lot. It will teach us to speak with Christ and speak joyfully to our brothers and sisters.

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AMMA: HER RELIGION IS "LOVE"

Mata Amritanandamayi's followers call her Amma or Ammachi. The diminutive 'saint' says she does not belong to any particular religion; 'the universal mother,' as her devotees have christened her, says her religion is love. She expresses that love through her hugs. Her followers say that, in the past 30 years, Amma has physically embraced more than 21 million people.

Quotations:

• The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.
• The Divine is present in everyone, in all beings, in everything. Like space it is everywhere, all pervading, all powerful, all knowing. The Divine is the principle of Life, the inner light of consciousness, and pure bliss-----. It is our very own Self.
• Serving the world with love and cooperation, you will find your own true Self. As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away, and without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.
• In this universe it is love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life.
• A revolution is required now. Not a worldly revolution, today the need is of a spiritual revolution.
• Only if each individual imbibes spirituality and adheres to his dharma (duties), will this spiritual revolution come about.
• When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.
• To know the Self, one should starve the ego.
• Abundance of wealth, abundance of machinery, changes in the mode of governance - none of these will solve our problems.
• There is no point in blaming God for evil and the problems in the world. God has shown us the right path to follow and is not responsible for the miseries we create by not following it.
• "Knowledge devoid of devotion is like chewing stones."
• Mother does not say you should believe in Mother or in a God in heaven. It is enough to believe in yourself. Everything is there in you.
• Because our minds are full of preconceived notions and expectations, we are unable to enjoy life.
• Meditation is one of the ways to remove the preconceived notions from our minds and to bring about proper awareness.