Peace Pilgrim: "This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love." ....Peace Pilgrim
“To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.”
“We are all cells in the same body of humanity.”
“Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.”
“Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.”
“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.”
“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.”
"I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.”
“Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.”
"people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole."
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1.23.2007
1. "Our Father in Heaven" [And Our Mother Earth; and/or, Our Master Jesus....!]
99% of the value of this Sacred, all sufficient prayer is in these 4 words. Everything else can come with these four. In fact, 98% of the value is in the first TWO words.
The degree to which we Imagine, and Live in every respect out of the Idea / Truth / Wisdom / Humanity / Totality that there is One Father of us All - Heaven will happen.
Often, usually, when I say this prayer, I don't make it past these first two words. I can get stuck in Imagining the implications for me of One Father of us all, making us all one family - for many, many productive minutes. And, for those times I make it no further than these first two words I'm ok.
These first two words put me close to, or in His Will. And that's all there is. The entire reason that Jesus lived and died for us was to knit us together as One Family with One Father. Heaven for the individual and the collective is inescapable in exact proportion to the degree to which this exists at any moment - for the individual, for the collective.
Father, what do you want me to do? Where in your family are you looking? What do you want me, with my strenghts, weaknesses and other particular circumstances to DO? NOW? This is the whole deal.
However, words 3 & 4 are enormously productive as well. "in Heaven" takes me to the world of spirit, and to the fact that in Truth, as I experience it in my moments of Wisdom, I/we are spirit beings - not Flesh beings. Who cannot imagine themselves transplanted into a robot entity and still being themself? Who can imagine their brain being removed, their Flesh kept alive, and still being themself?
Jesus invites us to NOT make this "world" our home, but to travel with Him, to follow Him to our Father's Kingdom in Heaven - NOW.
The degree to which we Imagine, and Live in every respect out of the Idea / Truth / Wisdom / Humanity / Totality that there is One Father of us All - Heaven will happen.
Often, usually, when I say this prayer, I don't make it past these first two words. I can get stuck in Imagining the implications for me of One Father of us all, making us all one family - for many, many productive minutes. And, for those times I make it no further than these first two words I'm ok.
These first two words put me close to, or in His Will. And that's all there is. The entire reason that Jesus lived and died for us was to knit us together as One Family with One Father. Heaven for the individual and the collective is inescapable in exact proportion to the degree to which this exists at any moment - for the individual, for the collective.
Father, what do you want me to do? Where in your family are you looking? What do you want me, with my strenghts, weaknesses and other particular circumstances to DO? NOW? This is the whole deal.
However, words 3 & 4 are enormously productive as well. "in Heaven" takes me to the world of spirit, and to the fact that in Truth, as I experience it in my moments of Wisdom, I/we are spirit beings - not Flesh beings. Who cannot imagine themselves transplanted into a robot entity and still being themself? Who can imagine their brain being removed, their Flesh kept alive, and still being themself?
Jesus invites us to NOT make this "world" our home, but to travel with Him, to follow Him to our Father's Kingdom in Heaven - NOW.
2. "Hallowed be your name"
Hmmm. This has been the least important of the phrases for me. Up until recently. Recently this phrase has helped me reflect on why His name is hallowed. This phrase helps me connect with my experience thus far of our Father:
* In my biological father's total, otherish commitment to the wellbeing of others.
* To the unconditional kindness shown by KC, a foodwagon-for-the-homeless worker I met the the other day; a young man that showers unconditional kindness/love/friendliness on everyone.
* Gandhi.
* Thomas.
* Bev.
* Etc.
* Etc.
* Etc.
* Etc.
This Goodness is God, the Father. There is nothing else. We need nothing else.
NOW I find this component of the prayer enormously fruitful in the growth of my capability to be displaced by all but, and filled completely with His Spirit / Will (my consicience / still small voice / empathy / compassion / humanity.)
* In my biological father's total, otherish commitment to the wellbeing of others.
* To the unconditional kindness shown by KC, a foodwagon-for-the-homeless worker I met the the other day; a young man that showers unconditional kindness/love/friendliness on everyone.
* Gandhi.
* Thomas.
* Bev.
* Etc.
* Etc.
* Etc.
* Etc.
This Goodness is God, the Father. There is nothing else. We need nothing else.
NOW I find this component of the prayer enormously fruitful in the growth of my capability to be displaced by all but, and filled completely with His Spirit / Will (my consicience / still small voice / empathy / compassion / humanity.)
3. "Your Kingdom come[s]"
How does this strike you? It always strikes me as deliberately meaning not one, but TWO things:
A. Your Kingdom come ... for me to get there, for me to come there!
B. Your Kingdom come HERE... for Your Kingdom to come materially to this earth NOW!
The value and richness of this Life giving phrase is two fold:
1. This phrase lets us see that the answer to A & B above IS THE SAME: Your Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven!
2. This phrase challenges us to every time imagine what His Kingdom is like. This will be a lifelong pursuite for me. But I think I have the all important essence of it: It is Spirit, not Flesh; It is Free of Fleshly/Lust concerns; It is entirely, 100% about His concern for The Least of These - everyone in Heaven is 100% focussed and committed to the Least of These; it is absent personal concern because attention is totally elsewhere; it is Heaven....
A. Your Kingdom come ... for me to get there, for me to come there!
B. Your Kingdom come HERE... for Your Kingdom to come materially to this earth NOW!
The value and richness of this Life giving phrase is two fold:
1. This phrase lets us see that the answer to A & B above IS THE SAME: Your Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven!
2. This phrase challenges us to every time imagine what His Kingdom is like. This will be a lifelong pursuite for me. But I think I have the all important essence of it: It is Spirit, not Flesh; It is Free of Fleshly/Lust concerns; It is entirely, 100% about His concern for The Least of These - everyone in Heaven is 100% focussed and committed to the Least of These; it is absent personal concern because attention is totally elsewhere; it is Heaven....
4. "[As] Your will [is] done on earth as it is in Heaven."
For years now this is just about my only prayer, The Lord's Prayer, and I just don't envision ever needing any other. This astonishes me, but that is how I experience the prayer. I don't prefer it this way, it is just how it is. Having said that, I only in these last 5 years have begun to understand the prayer. Before the understanding I am trying to share here, at best it was a series of meaningless words (mumbo jumbo); and at worst it served to lead me very much astray.
THE BOTTOM LINE - this phrase above is the bottom line. Obviously in Heaven we are Perfect - Spirit! Therefore, how is His will done in Heaven? WITHOUT any, ANY of the pull of the Flesh/Lust. ZERO. Well, Jesus with this prayer calls us to follow Him in displacing everything within ourselves now, today, all the time that does NOT consist of Our Father's Spirit/Will. Based on my practice at discipleship so far I can only describe this as eminently feasible. To the 100% level? Who cares. 98% level? Certainly. Not interested? Not Christian. This is the whole thing.
How was Jesus perfect? Only in this regard, and that is everything. Jesus discerned what WAS and WAS NOT Our Father's will; he displaced what was not, and empowered and encouraged that which was.
WHY? What is the benefit? Well, for Jesus and for us what He promised is what I find - more Joy, Life, Love, Peace and Persecution than one could ever hope for - Heaven, a Heaven of personal experience - EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY - no matter what Persecution may be suffered. For me so far it hasn't yet been that tough - just homelessness, subzero temperatures, incarceration, disrespect, the discomforts of sleeping upright every night, extreme isolation.... But still, as mild as these Persecutions are they suggest that Jesus was absolutely correct - We can be in Heaven with our Father IN THIS LIFE REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS OUR CHOICE.
ALSO, from the perspective of a lifetime (35 years) as an adult trying to improve the world using every material means imaginable, what is called for in the above phrase IS THE ONLY HOPE OF BRINGING A MATERIAL HEAVEN TO EARTH. Of course it can be done. And Heaven ON EARTH MATERIALLY WILL HAPPEN exactly in proportion to how many of us, how much of the time are purely hosts of His will. Currently Greed/mammon, NOT His Will reigns. We see the results (among the mountains of evidence in the 3rd world: Mining for Bling in the Congo; Congo's Tin Soldiers; Life & Debt, etc, etc, etc. Among the mountains of evidence around you - how much Joy is in your life and that of those around you? Of the seconds in your day how many are Heavenly/Good? How about for your biological children present or future?) Until this is reversed we may move Hell around a bit, but Heaven will be no closer. NOT ONE INCH CLOSER.
LET'S GET ON WITH IT: For ourselves, for our immediate family, for our children, for our neighbors, for the plant, for the future, for God's sake!
THE BOTTOM LINE - this phrase above is the bottom line. Obviously in Heaven we are Perfect - Spirit! Therefore, how is His will done in Heaven? WITHOUT any, ANY of the pull of the Flesh/Lust. ZERO. Well, Jesus with this prayer calls us to follow Him in displacing everything within ourselves now, today, all the time that does NOT consist of Our Father's Spirit/Will. Based on my practice at discipleship so far I can only describe this as eminently feasible. To the 100% level? Who cares. 98% level? Certainly. Not interested? Not Christian. This is the whole thing.
How was Jesus perfect? Only in this regard, and that is everything. Jesus discerned what WAS and WAS NOT Our Father's will; he displaced what was not, and empowered and encouraged that which was.
WHY? What is the benefit? Well, for Jesus and for us what He promised is what I find - more Joy, Life, Love, Peace and Persecution than one could ever hope for - Heaven, a Heaven of personal experience - EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY - no matter what Persecution may be suffered. For me so far it hasn't yet been that tough - just homelessness, subzero temperatures, incarceration, disrespect, the discomforts of sleeping upright every night, extreme isolation.... But still, as mild as these Persecutions are they suggest that Jesus was absolutely correct - We can be in Heaven with our Father IN THIS LIFE REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES. IT IS OUR CHOICE.
ALSO, from the perspective of a lifetime (35 years) as an adult trying to improve the world using every material means imaginable, what is called for in the above phrase IS THE ONLY HOPE OF BRINGING A MATERIAL HEAVEN TO EARTH. Of course it can be done. And Heaven ON EARTH MATERIALLY WILL HAPPEN exactly in proportion to how many of us, how much of the time are purely hosts of His will. Currently Greed/mammon, NOT His Will reigns. We see the results (among the mountains of evidence in the 3rd world: Mining for Bling in the Congo; Congo's Tin Soldiers; Life & Debt, etc, etc, etc. Among the mountains of evidence around you - how much Joy is in your life and that of those around you? Of the seconds in your day how many are Heavenly/Good? How about for your biological children present or future?) Until this is reversed we may move Hell around a bit, but Heaven will be no closer. NOT ONE INCH CLOSER.
LET'S GET ON WITH IT: For ourselves, for our immediate family, for our children, for our neighbors, for the plant, for the future, for God's sake!
5. "Give us [all] this day our daily bread."
Hugely important.
"Bread!" What bread?!?!?!? Oh this is so crucial - a dreadful slippery slope! Improperly understood it leads to enormous error and suffering.
WORST CASE understanding it leads us to pray - "give me stuff!"
BAD CASE it leads us to pray - "feed ME."
Bad Case it leads us to think Jesus / God / Good / Father is all about giving us stuff to eat, or material stuff. (If this were the case I guess Jesus wouldn't have been crucified. Or, maybe He forgot to pray that day. :-) )
CORRECT CASE - Please give us the food for our soul, and that "food" is the Understanding of What you want us to do today - YOUR WILL for us today, this day, right this moment.
[all] - The whole brilliance of Jesus teaching is to "save" us from the lie that we are separate from one another. We are all one body. I find it necessary (a correction of the translation?) to insert [all] in my prayer as an aid in seeing this. My need is for all of us, my entire "body," to find our daily "bread," our vision of what our Father needs from each of us today. Remembering this aids me in imagining more precisely what our Father wants me to do today, right now.
"Bread" is such an appropriate choice of words. Just as the hungry body cannot get enough of "bread," the healthy, engaged Soul cannot get enough of doing its Father's will! Imagine, your dearest loved one is in extreme pain and you can help them. Can you get enough of helping them? Of course not. As one becomes "Christian" one's nervous system re-merges with that of all people - their pain is yours, their joy yours. You can't get enough of eliminating the pain. The urge to do so displaces, preempts everything else, including the desire for the "bread" that the body eats - except as necessary to serve the will of the Father. Heaven! We thereby merge with the Father - Spirit, and are freed from the concerns of the body - concerns such as physical "bread."
"Bread!" What bread?!?!?!? Oh this is so crucial - a dreadful slippery slope! Improperly understood it leads to enormous error and suffering.
WORST CASE understanding it leads us to pray - "give me stuff!"
BAD CASE it leads us to pray - "feed ME."
Bad Case it leads us to think Jesus / God / Good / Father is all about giving us stuff to eat, or material stuff. (If this were the case I guess Jesus wouldn't have been crucified. Or, maybe He forgot to pray that day. :-) )
CORRECT CASE - Please give us the food for our soul, and that "food" is the Understanding of What you want us to do today - YOUR WILL for us today, this day, right this moment.
[all] - The whole brilliance of Jesus teaching is to "save" us from the lie that we are separate from one another. We are all one body. I find it necessary (a correction of the translation?) to insert [all] in my prayer as an aid in seeing this. My need is for all of us, my entire "body," to find our daily "bread," our vision of what our Father needs from each of us today. Remembering this aids me in imagining more precisely what our Father wants me to do today, right now.
"Bread" is such an appropriate choice of words. Just as the hungry body cannot get enough of "bread," the healthy, engaged Soul cannot get enough of doing its Father's will! Imagine, your dearest loved one is in extreme pain and you can help them. Can you get enough of helping them? Of course not. As one becomes "Christian" one's nervous system re-merges with that of all people - their pain is yours, their joy yours. You can't get enough of eliminating the pain. The urge to do so displaces, preempts everything else, including the desire for the "bread" that the body eats - except as necessary to serve the will of the Father. Heaven! We thereby merge with the Father - Spirit, and are freed from the concerns of the body - concerns such as physical "bread."
6. "Forgive us our [errors]," 7. "As we forgive the [errors of others]"
This pair is of huge value and importance. It can bring us to the nature of the problem - "error" ("Sin" being the original Greek word for "error.")
"Forgive us our trespasses" must cause us to reflect on what errors I personally made. The importance is not so much in the errors themselves. The importance is that they must show us that we/I fail.
AND IF I FAIL, OF COURSE I CAN EMPATHIZE WITH ANOTHER PERSON FAILING. We must learn to have this happen in our hearts, this domino effect of - 'if I failed, oh yes of course, the other fails.' Almost invariably I find myself smiling at myself as I go through this sequence.
This empathy, this Understanding, is utterly crucial if we are to join Jesus in his quest - to be his Disciple. Why? Because otherwise we will not see and be able to treat the "disease" that He is all about treating - Error - missing the Path, the Narrow way. After all, who would "choose" to miss the Path that is Heaven? IT IS SO EASY TO MISS IT!
NOW, the above has nothing to do with being lenient, permissive, avoiding or such. IT HAS TO DO WITH DIAGNOSIS! It may or may not lead to very tough treatment of the "other!" But in any case it must be the treatment of the MD. Is a good MD angry, pissed off, vengeful... when she/he sees disease in another? She/he will be fully mobilized, but not in any way hostile; rather mobilized to serve, even if that serving requires personal sacrifice or unavoidable pain for the "patient." OR, the diagnosis my be such that the "MD" rightly responds - "I cannot help this patient at this time," I'm not equipped to do so. In which case the responsible action is to move on and find a "patient" that they maybe able to help.
"Forgive us our trespasses" must cause us to reflect on what errors I personally made. The importance is not so much in the errors themselves. The importance is that they must show us that we/I fail.
AND IF I FAIL, OF COURSE I CAN EMPATHIZE WITH ANOTHER PERSON FAILING. We must learn to have this happen in our hearts, this domino effect of - 'if I failed, oh yes of course, the other fails.' Almost invariably I find myself smiling at myself as I go through this sequence.
This empathy, this Understanding, is utterly crucial if we are to join Jesus in his quest - to be his Disciple. Why? Because otherwise we will not see and be able to treat the "disease" that He is all about treating - Error - missing the Path, the Narrow way. After all, who would "choose" to miss the Path that is Heaven? IT IS SO EASY TO MISS IT!
NOW, the above has nothing to do with being lenient, permissive, avoiding or such. IT HAS TO DO WITH DIAGNOSIS! It may or may not lead to very tough treatment of the "other!" But in any case it must be the treatment of the MD. Is a good MD angry, pissed off, vengeful... when she/he sees disease in another? She/he will be fully mobilized, but not in any way hostile; rather mobilized to serve, even if that serving requires personal sacrifice or unavoidable pain for the "patient." OR, the diagnosis my be such that the "MD" rightly responds - "I cannot help this patient at this time," I'm not equipped to do so. In which case the responsible action is to move on and find a "patient" that they maybe able to help.
8. "Lead us [all] not into temptation," 9. "But deliver us [all] from evil."
Clearly we don't really expect our Father to do our work for us, so who is supposed to? You, and Me. These are tremendous exhortations to us for leadership and care:
* Care to not be or create temptation (guys don't flash the cash, girls be profoundly modest at all time even with your husbands, don't indulge in or carelessly promote suff - superiority - or systems / institutions like we all do now all of the time!)
* Leadership away from evil by becoming Apostles, Saints, 100% experts at Loving / Brotherhood / Otherishness.
These are an urgent warning about environment. We can no more survive healthy in the current cultural environment of the world than we can survive healthy in a toxic waste dump.
I've seen glimpses of just a few relatively non-toxic environments in my life, the clearest being some of the Catholic Worker houses. Otherwise, spiritually and psychologically the US culture is the most toxic, unhealthy, sinful, sin-inducing, disease producing, death producing culture devised by man. It leaves Sodom and Gomorah and the Roman Empire in the dust.
God save the child that are brought into this cesspool. God forgive the parents that do so. God dedicate us to CREATING AN ALTERNATIVE CULTURE/ENVIRONMENT/COMMUNITY/SYSTEM, becoming the fire that illuminates, cleans the putrification, displaces it, and provides an alternative - a lifeboat, and ark.
* Care to not be or create temptation (guys don't flash the cash, girls be profoundly modest at all time even with your husbands, don't indulge in or carelessly promote suff - superiority - or systems / institutions like we all do now all of the time!)
* Leadership away from evil by becoming Apostles, Saints, 100% experts at Loving / Brotherhood / Otherishness.
These are an urgent warning about environment. We can no more survive healthy in the current cultural environment of the world than we can survive healthy in a toxic waste dump.
I've seen glimpses of just a few relatively non-toxic environments in my life, the clearest being some of the Catholic Worker houses. Otherwise, spiritually and psychologically the US culture is the most toxic, unhealthy, sinful, sin-inducing, disease producing, death producing culture devised by man. It leaves Sodom and Gomorah and the Roman Empire in the dust.
God save the child that are brought into this cesspool. God forgive the parents that do so. God dedicate us to CREATING AN ALTERNATIVE CULTURE/ENVIRONMENT/COMMUNITY/SYSTEM, becoming the fire that illuminates, cleans the putrification, displaces it, and provides an alternative - a lifeboat, and ark.
1.22.2007
How does "Saved" happen
Jesus showed us, and my life's study and experiments bear him out:
* Sacrifice (sacrifice the "Good Life" for the "Great Life," Self Service for Other Service of the Least of These.)
* Be the Light/Good - Be ENTIRELY of the Service of our Father's Will (as best, honestly and completely as we can imagine it.)
Yup. That is it. Be the "light" that others can ignite from. One candle can ignite the world. Two candles makes it twice as likely, etc.
Repeat.
Yes, there is no certainty, except as to the way. See above.
* Sacrifice (sacrifice the "Good Life" for the "Great Life," Self Service for Other Service of the Least of These.)
* Be the Light/Good - Be ENTIRELY of the Service of our Father's Will (as best, honestly and completely as we can imagine it.)
Yup. That is it. Be the "light" that others can ignite from. One candle can ignite the world. Two candles makes it twice as likely, etc.
Repeat.
Yes, there is no certainty, except as to the way. See above.
Just can't get enough...!!!!
Have you ever had that feeling? Of course you have!
Just can't get enough of:
* My friend.
* That music group.
* This delicious meal.
* Alcohol.
* Safety.
* Acceptance.
* Power.
* Etc.
* Etc.
* Etc.
Well, Jesus found, and died to show us that there is something that trumps ALL of this.
Doing our Father's will - serving his family from our hearts, because they have become our family, trumps all of this. That, and that alone is where comes from Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Franics of Asisi, ML King. Period. For such people and those exactly like them, the ONLY CLINICALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE, their "Food" is to do the will of that imaginary "Father."
Just can't get enough of:
* My friend.
* That music group.
* This delicious meal.
* Alcohol.
* Safety.
* Acceptance.
* Power.
* Etc.
* Etc.
* Etc.
Well, Jesus found, and died to show us that there is something that trumps ALL of this.
Doing our Father's will - serving his family from our hearts, because they have become our family, trumps all of this. That, and that alone is where comes from Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Franics of Asisi, ML King. Period. For such people and those exactly like them, the ONLY CLINICALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE, their "Food" is to do the will of that imaginary "Father."
Our "Father"
The "Father" of us all - an imaginary figure that we can choose to imagine. An INDESPENSIBLE imaginary construct to Save Us from "The Fall."
The "Our Father" seems a Perfect Prayer to recover from the fall, properly understood. Tolstoy's "Gospel in Brief" showed me, Gandhi and maybe King what this prayer means. At some time soon I hope to share with you what I've learned.
99% of the value, the Saving Grace of that prayer is in simply imagining "Our Father" at the first two words. Everything else is possible from there:
* Imagining that we all have one Father,
* Certainly He has no ego problem,
* He wants total Joy for us,
* FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE, WHAT DOES HE WANT ME TO DO FOR HIS / MY FAMILY RIGHT NOW! Bingo! Salvation!!!!!
The "Our Father" seems a Perfect Prayer to recover from the fall, properly understood. Tolstoy's "Gospel in Brief" showed me, Gandhi and maybe King what this prayer means. At some time soon I hope to share with you what I've learned.
99% of the value, the Saving Grace of that prayer is in simply imagining "Our Father" at the first two words. Everything else is possible from there:
* Imagining that we all have one Father,
* Certainly He has no ego problem,
* He wants total Joy for us,
* FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE, WHAT DOES HE WANT ME TO DO FOR HIS / MY FAMILY RIGHT NOW! Bingo! Salvation!!!!!
"The Fall"
Whose heart lives for itself? A dead persons heart.
What skin cell lives for itself? A cancerous skin cell.
What cat lives for itself? A cat with no or dead children.
And so it goes.
"The Fall?" When man imagined the lie that our life is for our own personal use, for our own personal enjoyment.
What skin cell lives for itself? A cancerous skin cell.
What cat lives for itself? A cat with no or dead children.
And so it goes.
"The Fall?" When man imagined the lie that our life is for our own personal use, for our own personal enjoyment.
Who is "Saved?"
Precisely and only that person that is converted from the mistaken view of "The Fall;" that our life is given for ourselves.
9.13.2001
12.31.1991
"Provoking a Paradigm Shift: The Function of Peace Making (to Starting Loving)." SL (CLICK for more...)
[part of a FB dialog with my sister BA]
How old is this woman? [take a moment, look closely,
formulate your answer, before you scroll down further]
How old is this woman? [take a moment, look closely,
formulate your answer, before you scroll down further]
.
.
.
:-) So, the picture is used to show our capacity to
see a bunch of information and have our mind then
make sense of it, and our mind tends to do that all
in a bunch! So, objectively the picture is just a
bunch of black and white ink! But quickly the mind
works to make sense of it, seeing either a mature
woman or an immature girl, but rarely both. BUT
AFTER A LOT OF WORK, most people can coax their
mind to shift and see the figure that previously they
didn't see. So, our minds seek a paradigm by which
to make sense of things, but often, usually in this
sickest of all societies, we arrive at the incorrect,
wrong, paradigm. My point in all this is that what I've
been Given, by Our Father, is the gift of a massive
paradigm shift, from the massively deadly, wrong,
incorrect, sinful paradigm that prevails in our society,
to the one that Jesus died to show us, as did King,
Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt...Shifting from the Adam
see a bunch of information and have our mind then
make sense of it, and our mind tends to do that all
in a bunch! So, objectively the picture is just a
bunch of black and white ink! But quickly the mind
works to make sense of it, seeing either a mature
woman or an immature girl, but rarely both. BUT
AFTER A LOT OF WORK, most people can coax their
mind to shift and see the figure that previously they
didn't see. So, our minds seek a paradigm by which
to make sense of things, but often, usually in this
sickest of all societies, we arrive at the incorrect,
wrong, paradigm. My point in all this is that what I've
been Given, by Our Father, is the gift of a massive
paradigm shift, from the massively deadly, wrong,
incorrect, sinful paradigm that prevails in our society,
to the one that Jesus died to show us, as did King,
Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt...Shifting from the Adam
Smithian Paradigm of 'The World is here for me,' to
the Eleanor Rooseveltian 'I am here for Thee;' from
Fascist-GOP Authoritarian to Lincoln-Obama
Authoritative. And the other part of
my point is that, although someone on the outside,
like me, can try to offer, to coax, another to spend
the time and work to "see" the other paradigm, but
they can't actually do that work for the other. It HAS
to happen within the other, or it doesn't happen.
And words can help, but the real work is in the mind,
the Soul; of one that REALLY, REALLY wants to "See."
And so it was with Jesus, too - "No one comes to
me except that the Father brings them." Jesus
tried to coax the Rich Young Man, but the Father
didn't bring him. And Jesus wept. Me too.
So, your wonderful set of questions about 2 posts ago
sparked all this in me to share with you. Occasionally
I can help another by answering a few of their questions,
but mostly I can help them by really, really, really...
encouraging them to look deeply, deeply, deeply...
at the sites I've created -
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/ ,
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4#grid/user/481CE6996462B273 ,
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4?feature=mhum ,
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4#grid/user/871B56D121255436 .
to try and grasp the paradigm that has grasped me.
IT IS DIFFERENT! But it is exactly the paradigm that
grasped Jesus, King, Gandhi..., tho my words and
understandings may be a bit different.
The way I think about these sites sometimes is, 'Start,
if a lightening strike totally erased everything you know,
and everything you've become, far and away the fastest
way to 're-boot' yourself would be if someone locked
you in a room with only these sites, above.
xx sl
like me, can try to offer, to coax, another to spend
the time and work to "see" the other paradigm, but
they can't actually do that work for the other. It HAS
to happen within the other, or it doesn't happen.
And words can help, but the real work is in the mind,
the Soul; of one that REALLY, REALLY wants to "See."
And so it was with Jesus, too - "No one comes to
me except that the Father brings them." Jesus
tried to coax the Rich Young Man, but the Father
didn't bring him. And Jesus wept. Me too.
So, your wonderful set of questions about 2 posts ago
sparked all this in me to share with you. Occasionally
I can help another by answering a few of their questions,
but mostly I can help them by really, really, really...
encouraging them to look deeply, deeply, deeply...
at the sites I've created -
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/ ,
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4#grid/user/481CE6996462B273 ,
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4?feature=mhum ,
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4#grid/user/871B56D121255436 .
to try and grasp the paradigm that has grasped me.
IT IS DIFFERENT! But it is exactly the paradigm that
grasped Jesus, King, Gandhi..., tho my words and
understandings may be a bit different.
The way I think about these sites sometimes is, 'Start,
if a lightening strike totally erased everything you know,
and everything you've become, far and away the fastest
way to 're-boot' yourself would be if someone locked
you in a room with only these sites, above.
xx sl
jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com
12.25.1991
Start Loving - Wage Love or Die (no 3rd option any longer exists)
Thanks to Charles Rushton http://jpgmag.com/photos/1683331
Christians above, Muslims below - GOD OBVIOUS IN THE FACES OF BOTH. GET OVER IT.
STARTS MOST ACTIVE SITES
Video Interviews of Start Loving
STARTS EARLIER CAMPAGNS and ESSENTAIL READS
- START'S LIFESAVING KIT
- The DNA of Joy, Life, Peace-of-Heart - Heaven. Clinically.
- TOLSTOY, WHAT I BELIEVE - What "Loving" understands
- PEACEMAKERS FOR US FORCES, IRANIANS, IRAQIS
- DARFUR HEROES. Too few "Loving" today
- BRIGADE OF PEACEMAKERS FOR DARFUR. "Loving" opportunity
- HOLOCAUST RESCUERS. What "Loving" looks like
- PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE. What "Loving" talks like
- DAVE DELLINGER. What "Loving" Lives like
- HUNGER STRIKE: Stand with Darfur: Sudan Embassy
- Actions 6/06 - 1/07: Stand With Darfur White House II
- Actions 5/06 - 6/06: Stand With Darfur White House
- Actions 7/05 - 5/06: Rescue Restore Darfur
- WE'RE EVIDENCE NO GENOCIDE: Darfur Genocide a Fraud
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Christians above, Muslims below - GOD OBVIOUS IN THE FACES OF BOTH. GET OVER IT.
START LOVING Blogger Profile - ALL OTHER BLOGS
- Start Loving
- Washington, D.C., United States
- MY RELIGION (same as Jesus, King, Gandhi, Teresa, Romero, Eleanor, Obamas...): Universal Love. PEACE: is the presence of Universal Love. WAR: HOSTILITY is the presence of Conditional Love. MY FAMILY (same as Jesus, King, Gandhi, Teresa, Romero, Eleanor...): All people born and unborn. "The greatest madness of all is to see things as they are, and not as they should be." Cervates, Man of La Mancha. BELIEF: "He does not believe who does not live according to his belief." Thomas Fuller GOLDEN RULE: "If you WOULD do it to or for your son or daughter, do it now TO "THE LEAST OF THESE," STRANGERS AND ENEMIES. If you WOULDN'T do it, DON'T, TO ANYONE, EVER." SL "It is NOT WHAT you do. It is THAT you do with TOTAL COMMITMENT, HUGE SACRIFICE and UNIVERSAL Love. NOW." SL Computer Industry Executive, Psychological Counselor, Retail Executive turned would-be Brother / Disciple of Jesus;late in life Humanitarian activist / human being. "The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep." "Love as I have loved." "WHOEVER CLAIMS TO ABIDE IN [JESUS] OUGHT TO LIVE JUST LIKE [JESUS] LIVED," 1 John Ch 2. Start Loving - WAGE LOVE or DIE (no 3rd option exists).
10.31.1991
SEARCH ME
Dear Family (yes you),
Using the search window in the
BLOGGER BAR
at the top left of this screen search me on: Humanity, War, War and Humanity, Psychology, Physics, Superstition, Peace, Love, Jesus, Sisterhood, Love, Loving, God, Heaven, Hell, Empire, Heart, Flesh, Mind, Life, Joy, Tactics, Strategy, Peace, War, Christianity, Religion, Faith, Readings, Quotations, Tolstoy, Eleanor R., Teresa, Gandhi, King, Dellinger, Zinn, Bible, Weapons, War, Violence, Nonviolence, Etc, Etc, Etc.... Your Loving brother, Start (Glossary may help as well).
Using the search window in the
BLOGGER BAR
at the top left of this screen search me on: Humanity, War, War and Humanity, Psychology, Physics, Superstition, Peace, Love, Jesus, Sisterhood, Love, Loving, God, Heaven, Hell, Empire, Heart, Flesh, Mind, Life, Joy, Tactics, Strategy, Peace, War, Christianity, Religion, Faith, Readings, Quotations, Tolstoy, Eleanor R., Teresa, Gandhi, King, Dellinger, Zinn, Bible, Weapons, War, Violence, Nonviolence, Etc, Etc, Etc.... Your Loving brother, Start (Glossary may help as well).
10.18.1991
Where Start "grew up"
8.03.1991
Kindness
"I suspect that beyond kindness,
there is naught that I, you
or the world need know."
Start Loving
“When I was young,
I admired clever people.
Now that I am old,
I admire kind people.”
Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
MONDAY, 23 JULY, 2007Listen (RealAudio) How to listen
Poem: "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye, from The Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. © Eighth Mountain Press, 1995. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
7.31.1991
SUBJECT INDEX
THIS IS NOT "A CHRISTIAN" SITE BY ANY PREVAILING DEFINITIONS OR STANDARDS, tragically, YET. LOOK TO THE GLOSSARY, NEW TESTAMENT OR GANDHI / TOLSTOY, BEFORE YOU LOOK TO THE "CHURCH" FOR INDICATIONS OF THE BELIEFS AND MEANINGS EXPRESSED ON THIS SITE. [JESUS WOULD CONSIDER IT VERY "CHRISTIAN."]
6/17/07 NOTE: ACCESS ALL POSTS ON THIS SITE BY THE FOLLOWING MAJOR SUBJECT GROUPINGS. (Most recent 100 p0sts yet to be added to these categories 6/17/07):
1. ENVISIONING HOW TO WIN.
How to bring about Heaven on Earth - NOW!
2. PHYSICS OF THE BATTLE OF BROTHERHOOD VS SELFISHNESS...
3. THE MODEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL / SPIRITUAL HEALTH
4. SEEING THE EVILS THAT THEY MIGHT BE CURED
5. THE JOY OF IT
6. THE COST OF SAVING THE WORLD
7. LEARNING FROM JESUS THE MASTER WARRIOR (Gandhi's Master)
8. MANY MASTERS: LEARN, FOLLOW, SURPASS
9. THE WARRIOR: TRAINING, DISCIPLINE, PRACTICES, BELI...
10. MISCELLANEOUS
I BELIEVE THAT TO CREATE THIS BLOG IS WHY I WAS BORN. I TAKE NO CREDIT, I WAS JUST THE TYPIST. Start Loving
This blog is a series of largely unbidden insights and revelations regarding how to finally accomplish what Gandhi, Jesus, Dr. King and their like have tried for millennia to do - Eliminate Hell on Earth and replace it with Heaven on Earth. These folks saw that it absolutely could be accomplished. After making this my lifelong study, so do I. However unlikely that I would be the author, this site is the missing "DNA," the "Missing Code" for bringing peace to the planet. Ignore it at our peril. You better read it and decide for yourself. Given the time much refining and rewriting will occur - but no time now.
Immediately below the following Intro post you can see all the posts from most recent to least recent.
Most useful for evaluation and study of this material can be the groupings provided on this page. All current and future posts will be added to these or an evolving set of Index Headings. God's Speed. Start Loving
NOTE: ALL CAPS Titles within the pages linked to these titles are considered the most important, the most crucial. Any posts not considered important have been removed.
6/17/07 NOTE: ACCESS ALL POSTS ON THIS SITE BY THE FOLLOWING MAJOR SUBJECT GROUPINGS. (Most recent 100 p0sts yet to be added to these categories 6/17/07):
1. ENVISIONING HOW TO WIN.
How to bring about Heaven on Earth - NOW!
2. PHYSICS OF THE BATTLE OF BROTHERHOOD VS SELFISHNESS...
3. THE MODEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL / SPIRITUAL HEALTH
4. SEEING THE EVILS THAT THEY MIGHT BE CURED
5. THE JOY OF IT
6. THE COST OF SAVING THE WORLD
7. LEARNING FROM JESUS THE MASTER WARRIOR (Gandhi's Master)
8. MANY MASTERS: LEARN, FOLLOW, SURPASS
9. THE WARRIOR: TRAINING, DISCIPLINE, PRACTICES, BELI...
10. MISCELLANEOUS
I BELIEVE THAT TO CREATE THIS BLOG IS WHY I WAS BORN. I TAKE NO CREDIT, I WAS JUST THE TYPIST. Start Loving
This blog is a series of largely unbidden insights and revelations regarding how to finally accomplish what Gandhi, Jesus, Dr. King and their like have tried for millennia to do - Eliminate Hell on Earth and replace it with Heaven on Earth. These folks saw that it absolutely could be accomplished. After making this my lifelong study, so do I. However unlikely that I would be the author, this site is the missing "DNA," the "Missing Code" for bringing peace to the planet. Ignore it at our peril. You better read it and decide for yourself. Given the time much refining and rewriting will occur - but no time now.
Immediately below the following Intro post you can see all the posts from most recent to least recent.
Most useful for evaluation and study of this material can be the groupings provided on this page. All current and future posts will be added to these or an evolving set of Index Headings. God's Speed. Start Loving
NOTE: ALL CAPS Titles within the pages linked to these titles are considered the most important, the most crucial. Any posts not considered important have been removed.
SITE INTRO: Remember the Startrek Movie with the Whale?
The one where they had to find 2 whales from the long (pre-extinct) past to communicate with an advanced whale species that otherwise would destroy future earth? Well there is a scene where Scotty needs transparent aluminum. It hasn't been invented in the past, but of course Scotty knows how. He finds a metallurgist and says, here's the deal - you give me the transparent aluminum free, and I'll give you the formula! The metallurgist thinks, and hesitates. "It will take me years to figure out these formulas," he said. "Ah," Scotty replied. "But then you will have all the money of avarice." They did the deal.
The only way I can figure all this is that I'm some kinda Profit directly victimized by God, or something. I can't explain all the Revelations, Sensations, etc I am having. This Blog created in the last 2 months, and the one created working through the night last night - Peace and Nonviolence (Quotations from) , for every week you deeply study and ponder it you can shave years off of how long it took for me to arrive at it (45 at least. Seriously.)
Between these two sites I believe they are from God like the 10 Commandments. You better get on with it. Hey, if I'm wrong you will know it in hours of study. If I'm right you can now save the world, and your selves in the process; or it will be Hell to pay if you blow this off prematurely. No kidding. I am deadly serious.
"God's Speed" (I'm pretty sure that means DROP EVERYTHING. Seriously.)
Oh do I love you, Start Loving
The only way I can figure all this is that I'm some kinda Profit directly victimized by God, or something. I can't explain all the Revelations, Sensations, etc I am having. This Blog created in the last 2 months, and the one created working through the night last night - Peace and Nonviolence (Quotations from) , for every week you deeply study and ponder it you can shave years off of how long it took for me to arrive at it (45 at least. Seriously.)
Between these two sites I believe they are from God like the 10 Commandments. You better get on with it. Hey, if I'm wrong you will know it in hours of study. If I'm right you can now save the world, and your selves in the process; or it will be Hell to pay if you blow this off prematurely. No kidding. I am deadly serious.
"God's Speed" (I'm pretty sure that means DROP EVERYTHING. Seriously.)
Oh do I love you, Start Loving
1.19.1991
INDEX: MANY MASTERS: LEARN, FOLLOW, SURPASS
- AMMA: HER RELIGION IS "LOVE"
- Ballou, Adin: Christian Nonresisstance
- Berrigan, Dan: A Meditation from Catonsville
- Berrigan, Phil: An Open Letter to a Bishop
- Phil Berrigan Quotes
- Bhave, Vinoba: Christ's Teachings
- Bill Moyers: "Addicted to [our] own place and privilege."
- BONHOEFFER ESSAY - ACTING WHEN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
- Camara, Dom Helder: Fetters of Injustice
- Chavez, Cesar
- Coffin, William Sloane: Militant Non-Violence
- Cornell, Tom: Not the Smallest Grain of Incense
- Day, Dorothy
- Dellinger, David: Quotations
- Dolci, Danilo: Nonviolence VS the Mafia
- Erasmus, Desiderius Our Father
- ESSENTIAL READINGS
- Fox, George: The Time of My Commitment
- FRANKL, VIKTOR QUOTES ON MEANING
- Gandhi, M.K.: Religious Satyagraha
- WHY DID YOUNG FRANZ JAGERSTATTER STAND AS HITLER S...
- Gandhi: Quotes
- Gandhi: regarding Jesus
- Garrison, William Lloyd: DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS 1938
- Goss-Mayr, Hildegaard: Active Nonviolence
- Guinan, Ed: If we Listen Well
- Hanh, Thich Nhat: LOVE IN ACTION
- Hermann, Hesse: Letter to a Minister of State
- HESCHEL, ABRAHAM J.: THE MEANING OF THIS HOUR
- Heschel, Rabbi Abraham J.: Quotes
- Holocaust Resciers
- Hugo, Victor: Address to the Congres de la Paix
- Huxley, Aldous: Quotes
- Jägerstätter, Franz: Is There Anything the Individual Can Still Do?
- JORDAN, CLARENCE: THINGS NEW AND OLD
- King, Dr. Martin Luther
- Martin Luther King Jr. QUOTATIONS (while the site lasts)
- Lincoln, Abe:: ETHICS and CHURCH
- MacArthur, Douglas: Quotations
- Mandella, Nelson Quotations
- MERTON, THOMAS: PEACE AND REVOLUTION
- Misc. Quotes
- Muckerheidi, Perry: I Believe
- MUSTE, A.J.: THE WORKABILITY OF NONVIOLENCE
- Napoleon
- Paul VI
- Peace Pilgrim
- POPES, BISHOPS, COUNCILS
- Romero, Oscar: Quotes
- Romero: "[THE] CROSS [IS] THE VIOLENCE [OF LOVE] THAT WE MUST EACH DO TO OURSELVES"
- Roosevelt, Eleanor Quotations
- Ruskin, John: "UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE..."
- Skenandore, Ron: An Indian Prayer: A Proposal to Man
- St. Francis of Assisi: Prayer of…
- Stations on the Road to Freedom, Dietrich Bonhoeff...
- Stringfellow, William
- Teresa of Calcutta Quotes
- Teresa of Calcutta: "ANYWAY."
- Teresa: "As you do unto the least of these..."
- The Golden Rule in All Major Faiths
- Tolstoy, Leo
- TOLSTOY, LEO: IGNORE THIS SITE AND READ
- Tolstoy, Leo: Quotations
- Tutu, Desmond Quoations
- Weil, Simone: Reflections on War
INDEX: THE JOY OF VICTORY... AND THE JOY EVEN IN DEFEAT
- !!!!! WHAT BEING "SAVED" LOOKS LIKE !!!!!
- TO KILL THE BEAST (DISCONNECTION) - OFFER IT ENOUGH INNOCENT BLOOD
- CHOOSE: LIVE FOR THE FINITE, OR INFINITE. REALLY...
- }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} HUMANITY IS THE WAY {{{{{{{{{{{{{...
- CREATING THE CHURCH / COMMUNITY / ARMY IS EVERYTHING
- !!!!! "FAITH" !!!!!
- JOY'S THE REWARD FOR SUFFERING FOR LOVE
- HEROES ARE THE ONLY HEALTHY AMONG US
- Overwhelmed. In the hands of the Almighty.
- WHAT IF 100% SERVICE / SACRIFICE IS THE GREATEST JOY?
- The future of... Darfur... Earth? PRICELESS.
- ONLY KINDNESS MATTERS. HURRY.
- TRUE COMMUNITY / "FAMILY" ONLY COMES FROM SHARED EMERGENCY
- BOTTOM LINE: WHAT KIND OF 80 YRS DO YOU WANT?
- DIVINE: THAT WHICH NOTHING IS MORE WONDERFUL THAN...
- INSEPARABLE ARE JOY AND SUFFERING FOR LOVE.
- FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE IS TRUE RELIGION'S FRUIT
- ULTIMATE ADVENTURE; THE REASON TO "BE" "GOOD"
- WHAT FREEDOM IS IN PRISON? CONSCIENCE, FREEDOM OF.
- "LIFE" IS WORTH YOUR ENTIRE FUTURE
- ULTIMATE FREEDOM? FREEDOM FROM DISCONNECTION
- "SAVED:" YOU LOSE EVERYTHING... EXCEPT THE GREAT S...
- WE'RE "DEAD MEN WALKING." JESUS JOYFULLY TOLD US
- "LOVE AND JOY ARE IN SHARING THE EMERGENCY." Start...
- Joy is to Living what Heat is to Electricity
- "OUR FATHER... LEAD US NOT INTO ["ME"...]"
- "GIVE EVERYTHING AND FREE YOUR SPIRIT." Start Lovi...
- IT WOULD BE WORTH MY LIFE 100,000,000 TIMES IF...
- THE VALUE OF THE WORK = COMPENSATION FORGONE
- KIN-DOM. KINDOM.
- Heaven is PeaceMAKING
- SITE DEDICATION: GREED FOR JOY, MILITANT GLOBAL BROTHERLINESS
- BLESSED UNREST
- RESURRECTION AND IMMORTALITY
- NOT "COMMANDMENT!" JESUS GAVE THE "SOLUTION!!!"
- 4:06pm. Oh my God. Jesus is the way. I never knew.
- THE "PRICE" IS: EVERYTHING & NOTHING
- Why Jesus came: Abundant Life; Complete Joy. PERIOD.
- WE ARE CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL, NOT SUCCESSFUL
- BE FAMILY / BROTHER / SISTER FOR THE JOY OF IT
- LIFE DOES NOT GET BETTER THAN THIS
- YOUR OWN CROSS: YOUR BEST GIFT EVER!!!!
- THE PEACE IS INEXPRESSIBLE
- Share in my Joy!
- THIS IS HEAVEN ON EARTH. You cannot imagine the Joy and Life
- THE ULTIMATE SELFISHNESS IS THE ULTIMATE OTHERISHNESS
- THE ONLY PATH TO JOY: REIGNING OTHERISHNESS
- Wealth? Whose kingdom?
- Just can't get enough...!!!!
- "Flesh" / Selfishness is INFERIOR, NOT "BAD"
- "CONNECTION," "WORLD FAMILY" IS THE "GATE"
- "Life" exists only OUTSIDE of our gated communities / lives
- THE ALMIGHTY LIES IN THE DIRECTION OF "OVERWHELMIN...
- Life happens at the "GROWTH TIP"
- THE "PEARL" / "TREASURE" OF JESUS
- 10. "For Thine is the Kingdom, Power, Glory...."
- JESUS IS AN EXCITED REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
- JESUS TAUGHT US: SPIRIT IS EVERYTHING
- WE ARE IMORTAL. THE ONLY DEATH IS SELFISHNESS
- For YOU it will be LUSTING or LOVING
- SIN is ERROR. NOTHING LESS!
- Miracles. From Julie.
- PARENTS, WHAT IS LIFE? PULSE OR HEART?
- THE CENTRAL TEACHINGS OF JESUS
- Am I finding my "Unit?"
- Home
- What are you living for? It is your bottom line. Happy?
- Thine is the... "Glory"
- Thine is the "Kingdom"
- JESUS' SOLUTION TO LIFE: AGAPE
- OUR FEELING FOR HYPOCRISY MAY BE LIFE ITSELF
- "FOLLOW JESUS WORD." Teresa of Calcutta
- "[THE] CROSS [IS] THE VIOLENCE [OF LOVE] THAT WE MUST EACH DO TO OURSELVES" Romero
- I NEVER WANTED ANYTHING FOR "ME" FROM MY 2 SONS
- WE EQUAL HOW WE SPEND OUR TIME
- ML King: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS?"
- "Start, having an impact?" AS MUCH AS I CAN.
- YOUR FUTURE: FOR "THE LEAST OF THESE" WHAT WOULD IT BE?
- Tolstoy's life of DIVERSIONS was his DEATH
- THE MORAL IMPERATIVE/OBLIGATION OF WITNESS
INDEX: MISCELLANEOUS
The links/posts in this index are listed from most recent to oldest. SIZE MATTERS - ALL CAPS posts tend to be more important than Lower Case Post Titles.
Sudan Embassy / Darfur Vigil PARTNER ELLEN THOMAS
NPR / DARFUR / EISELE / START LOVING
Start L. - Startle :-)
Start L.'s Tattoo, Hair, finances, etc.
"And when I die, and when I'm gone...
YOU CAN CALL ME "DEAR"
A gift from your Sister
THIS SITE, NO CREDIT TO ME, IS THE CODE FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH.
Essential Reading
My name is Start Loving. I had been confused.
Sudan Embassy / Darfur Vigil PARTNER ELLEN THOMAS
NPR / DARFUR / EISELE / START LOVING
Start L. - Startle :-)
Start L.'s Tattoo, Hair, finances, etc.
"And when I die, and when I'm gone...
YOU CAN CALL ME "DEAR"
A gift from your Sister
THIS SITE, NO CREDIT TO ME, IS THE CODE FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH.
Essential Reading
My name is Start Loving. I had been confused.
INDEX: ENVISIONING HOW TO UNLEASH HUMANITY
How to bring Peace, Joy, Justice...
HUMANITY... to Earth - NOW.
PERSONALLY & GLOBALLY
IT IS THE SAME EFFORT.
EXACTLY.
STRATEGY AND TACTICS
[NOTE: Glossary at left. DO NOT ASSUME TRADITIONAL DEFINITIONS. CHECK GLOSSARY.]
- }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} HUMANITY IS THE WAY {{{{{{{{{{{{{...
- INCINERATING EMPIRE: SHOWING EMPIRE TO ITSELF BY COMPARISON WITH YOU.
- }}}}} ALL OUT WAR FOR EVERYONE'S HUMANITY {{{{{
- }}}}} I HAVE A FATAL INFECTION {{{{{
- }}}}}}}} ALL IT TAKES IS ONE MATCH. IS IT YOU? {{...
- }}} WEAPONS OF MASS HUMANITY {{{
- GOD IS "BEING." !!!NOT!!! "A" BEING.
- ULTIMATE WEAPON: ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.
- NOT PURSUING A MIRACLE? ALREADY CONCEDED DEFEAT.
- 2 EMPIRE DESTROYERS: 1. YOUR INNOCENT BLOOD; 2. SEING ITSELF.
- BECAUSE OF FAMILY AND JOB YOU: CANNOT or MUST?
- YOU CAN CALL ME "DEAR"
- YOU ARE MURDERING YOUR CHILDREN
- ULTIMATE WEAPON: ULTIMATE SACRIFICE.
- YOU GET OTHERS TO PAY THE PRICE BY PAYING YOURSELF...
- TO KILL THE BEAST (DISCONNECTION) - OFFER IT INOCENT BLOOD
- GANDHI'S FAITH: MILITANT KINDNESS CAN'T LOSE IN THE LONG RUN
- YOUR ANGINA ABATES ONLY 10AM SUNDAYS. A PROBLEM?
- }}}}}}} OUR MORTAL ERROR IS "STARVING" {{{{{{{
- IT ALL COMES DOWN TO: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?
- CHOOSE: A. PLANETARY HELL; B. PAYING THE PRICE TO PREVENT IT.
- }}}}}}}}}} INDEPENDENCE DAY {{{{{{{{{{{
- }}}}} "WAGING HUMANITY" NOT "RESISTANCE" {{{{{
- TWO TYPES OF THE WAR: BREAK OPEN BODIES VS BREAK OPEN HEARTS.
- }}}}} HUMANITY NOT HOSTILITY {{{{{{
- THE ENTIRE WEAPON IS SELF-SACRIFICE / PAYING THEPRICE WITH ONE'S BODY.
- ONE LONE FROG FEELS THE WATER GOING TOWARD BOIL. WHAT DOES SHE DO?
- CREATING THE CHURCH / COMMUNITY / ARMY IS EVERYTHING
- WORST SCENARIO IS COMPLETE SELF-SACRIFICE NOW... WORST EXCEPT FOR ALL THE OTHER SCENARIOS.
- ART & TRUTH: "SONAR SOUNDINGS" OF THE SOUL
- THE TIME FOR FEET ON THE GROUND IS AFTER THE "BOMBING"
- UNARMED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
- YOUR CHOICE: HUMANITY OR INHUMANITY, FOREVER.
- }}}} EMPYRE EMPIRE. Start Loving {{{{
- THE ONLY 2 SIDES: GLOBAL FAMILY; AND "NOT"
- !!!!!!! NO DOUBLE STANDARDS !!!!!!!
- GANDHI WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF HOW MANY MAGATON BOMBS?
- WE MUST BE "SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT."
- TRUE COMMUNITY / "FAMILY" ONLY COMES FROM SHARED EMERGENCY
- I'M DYING FOR THE SPIRIT OF EMPIRE TO DIE
- !!!!! WHAT BEING "SAVED" LOOKS LIKE !!!!!
- OUR PRIMARY IDENTITY MUST BE BROTHER / SISTER.
- }}}}}}}}}} I AM RESPONSIBLE {{{{{{{{{{{
- CRAZY: "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOO'S NEST?"
- }}}}} JOB 1: DEFLATE / INCINERATE / EMPYRE EMPIRE WITH YOUR HUMANITY {{{...
- !!! WHAT MILLIONS SHOULD DO, ONE MAN MUST DO !!!
- YOUR SPOUSE DENIES TITANIC IS SINKING. YOU ARE PREGNANT WITH LIFE. WHAT DO YOU DO?
- }}}}}} CRUCIFIXION: ENTIRETY OF HUMANE LIFE {{{{
- LEGALIZED-INJUSTICE SYSTEM
- "WHAT IS A PATRIOT," THE REPORTER ASKED.
- }}}}}}} WORLD'S GREAT PEACEMAKING ESSAY {{{{{{{
- NOT GIViNG INNOCENT BLOOD? USELESS AT BEST.
- BE THE ALMIGHTY INCARNATE
- PRINCIPLES OF KINDOM-BUILDING [NONVIOLENT] ACTION
- "CONSCIENCE, THE SOLE CERTAIN GUIDE." Tolstoy
- THE VALUE OF THE WORK = COMPENSATION FORGONE
- GET "REAL." BE "REAL."
- DESTROY EMPIRE, TO THE DEATH. "THE EMPIRE" IS ILL...
- BRING THE ALMIGHTY TO BEAR
- King, Jesus, Gandhi... CRAZY!x?!* KNOW WHAT THEY WANT?!?!?!?
- SUFFERING FOR LOVE IS "THE" KEY TO UNLOCK THE HEART
- GOODNESS IS CULTIVATED. EVIL IS FORCED.
- WEAPON METRIX: MEGATONS VS MEGASELFSACRIFICE
- DESTRUCTIVE VIOLENCE IS FORCE AGAINST. FAMILINESS IS VIOLENCE FOR
- ART OF THE POSSIBLE. ART OF THE TRUTH. PEACEMAKING AS ART.
- JESUS NON-RESISTANCE: EFFECT ON PILOT?
- LOVING. THE ONE, TRUE RELIGION
- YOU VOTE WITH YOUR FEET... AND LIFE. P. BERRIGAN
- UNTIL WOULD-BE "SAVIORS" ARE ADMIRED, WE FAIL.
- BONHOEFFER ESSAY - ACTING WHEN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.
- THE SACRED DUTY OF NONCOOPERATION WITH EVIL
- "...cannot see our brother in need without stripping ourselves..."
- LUKE AWAKENS DARTH AS THOUGH FROM HYPNOSIS
- THE LESS I'M "A" CHRISTIAN THE MORE CHRISTIAN I BECOME
- THE CHOICE: MAN AS "COG" OR MAN AS "SON OF GOD"
- DELUSION: SUBSTITUTING "HAVING" KINDNESS FOR "BEING" KIND
- ACCEPTING VIOLENCE WITH LOVE ENDS THE SPREAD
- NOBODY'S PEACEMAKING CUZ NOBODY'S PEACEMAKING
- KINGDOM'S CONSTRUCTION SITE: THE MIND
- KINDNESS
- PURITY (think uranium and bombs)
- NUCLEAR DETONATION REQUIRES A TINY / MASSIVE BLAST...
- CATALYTIC, CHAIN REACTION. OUR ONLY CHANCE.
- IF YOU CLIMB MOUNTAINS, THE PIANO MUST STAY BEHIND
- LIVING AS THOUGH THERE IS "OUR FATHER," MATTERS.
- WHAT "CIVILIZATION" / "FAMILY" LOOKS LIKE
- TOLSTOY / GANDHI VISION: WE CAN AWAKE TO CONSCIENCE
- CHOKE EMPIRE ON [YOUR] INNOCENT BLOOD.
- NEEDED IS TO TRIGER A BLAST OF NUCLEAR CONSTRUCTIO...
- Heaven on earth (in a hellish world): Militant PeaceMAKING
- "CONNECTION," "WORLD FAMILY" IS THE "GATE"
- "LOVE AND JOY MEAN SHARING THE SAME FATE." Start ...
- WE ARE "DYING" FOR MODELS
- "STATE IS A PUBLIC... REBELLION AGAINST GOD." PHI...
- WE NEED 95% OF THE MILITARY PERSON'S CHARACTER. GANDHI KNEW THIS.
- !!!!!!!NO DOUBLE STANDARDS. EVER!!!!!!
- "TRUTH" - THE OPPOSITE OF HYPOCRISY
- "Our Father ... Deliver us [ALL to PeaceMAKING]
- NECESSITY TO NON-SUBORDINATE TO EMPIRE "LAW"
- Only Militant PeaceMAKING can eliminate Hate
- WE ARE CALLED TO BE FAITHFUL, NOT SUCCESSFUL
- PEACEMAKERS MUST MAKE PEACEMAKERS
- LOVINGLY DIE DESTROYING EMPIRE, BUILDING KINDOM
- YOUR FUTURE: FOR "THE LEAST OF THESE" WHAT WOULD IT BE?
- IF YOU KNEW A "POLICE STATE" WAS PLANNED, YOU'D DO WHAT?
- SITE DEDICATION: GREED FOR JOY, MILITANT GLOBAL BROTHERLINESS
- Never Again... ANY PERSONAL PRICE NOT PAID
- ONE ACTION IS WORTH 1000 WORDS
- "PAYING THE PRICE" SETS THE PRICE / WORTH / VALUE
- BROTHERLINESS = PAYING "THE PRICE" FOR OTHERS
- THE "NARROW GATE" = "SEEING" THE "PEARL" / "TREASURE"
- CONSTRUCTIVELY FACING THREAT OF JAIL
- THE "NARROW GATE" = "PAYING THE PRICE!!!!!!!!!"
- DARFURIES & JESUS WONDER: "ARE YOU OUR FAMILY?"
- JESUS; WE DO EVERYTHING BUT WHAT HE SAID
- ALMIGHTY = LOVE, TRUTH, LIFE = GOD.
- EMOTION. E-MOTION. E=MC Sqd.
- CONFRONT COURTS UNLESS GOD IS ABOVE THE "LAW"
- LOVE / COMPASSON / EMPATHY FOR STRANGERS: THE NARROW GATE
- "PAY ATTENTION" LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. Guidance for my young friends, of every age.
- IF YOU CLIMB MOUNTAINS, THE PIANO MUST STAY BEHIND
- SUFFERING / SACRIFICE - CHRISTIAN NAVIGATION (like "N" on the Compass)
- JOB #1: CREATE PEACEMAKER "FAMILIES" / COMMUNITIES FOR YOUTH
- LIFE SERVICE NOT LIP SERVICE
- OPEN HEART SURGERY IS OUR JOB (Opening Hearts)
- At the auction that is Life: "I bid my life for theirs!"
- Living in the face of Emergencies - Where Jesus wants us
- WAKE US UP NOW TO SEE WE ARE ALL FAMILY
- BE THE SUFFERING AND GRIEF YOU WANT TO SEE ELIMINATED
- DARFUR GENOCIDE WILL STOP WHEN THE WORLD WEEPS
- Not JUSTICE! GOD'S WORK IS HUMANITY / BROTHERHOOD / GLOBAL FAMILY!
- Save Darfur? MAKE PEOPLE GRIEVE FROM THEIR SOULS.
- !!!!!!"BREAD SERVED"/THERAPY PER MINUTE!!!!!
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MASS THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Final Star Wars Movie: Luke was dying to save Darth. Remember?
- The only hope? Dying for brotherly love to prevail on earth
- Only selfishness for Joy/Love/Peace/Life can save the world. Jesus leads us exactly, precisely and solely to the Cross
- What peoples have been saved except by others giving their lives?
- JESUS TAUGHT US: SPIRIT IS EVERYTHING THY KINGDOM COME[S] [AS] THY WILL [IS] DONE....
- MASS SHIFT OF AN INNATE PARADIGM IN OUR PSYCHE IS OUR ONLY HOPE FOR HUMAN KIND
- !!!!!!!! ALFRED ADLER !!!!!!!!!!!!
- HEALTH, SANITY, JESUS DEMAND THAT RAISING AN ARMY OF HEROES IS PRIMARY
- We are "ALL EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY."
- Save all people on the planet? Spark the paradigm shift that all men are brothers; WAKE US UP THAT WE ARE ALL FAMILY
- Act out of Love, or Pray. Do not act out of selfishness.
- "Brotherhood" / "GLOBAL FAMILY" is the only government capable enough
- One act of Love can multiply like the "loaves and fishes;" like a "mustard seed."
- JESUS CALLS US TO PERFECT SELF-SACRAFICE TO DISABLE THE BEAST THAT IS SELFISHNESS.
- When Persecuted a Hero Ministers to the Persecutor
- "Be HEROES," Jesus said. No? Ransom. Redeem.
- You are Evidence. YOUR LIFE might convince/convict us of what?
- THE "SON" GIVES LIFE. "BLACK HOLE" TAKES LIFE.
- Man must discover fire for the second time.
- !!!!! "FAITH" !!!!!
- BEING LESS THAN A HERO IS ILLNESS
- HARVESTING IS EASY. GROWING IS HARD.
- "CHRIST" MEANS "CONSCIOUSNESS"
- THE ALMIGHTY SUFFERS FOR ALL GENERATIONS, EQUALLY....
- LOVE is COURAGE is CONNECTION is TRUTH
- COWARDS SEEK TO PAY WITH OTHERS LIVES. HEROES PAY WITH THEIR OWN
- JESUS' SOLUTION TO LIFE: AGAPE
- OUR FEELING FOR HYPOCRISY MAY BE LIFE ITSELF
- "FOLLOW JESUS WORD." Teresa of Calcutta
- OUR "IMPACT" EQUALS HOW WE SPEND OUR TIME
- What we COULD pay for with our lives.
- JESUS: MUCH "PLANTING." LITTLE "CULTIVATING."
- MY QUEST: WHAT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME
- "A TIME TO KILL." BEHOLD SALVATION. "WE"
- "Life is as good as the good that you spend it on....
- "Our Father... Deliver us [ALL to Heaven]..."
- "We must demand that we pay higher prices..."
- "I LIVE BY FAITH ALONE," START LOVING
- Kingdom "FUNDING" pays massive dividends
- "Thy Kingom [IS FUNDED] as thy will is done...
- " EVERY "BROTHERLINESS" IS A "BRICK" IN THE KINGDOM
- EMPIRE'S PRIMARY ATTACK POINT: LANGUAGE CORRUPTIO...
- Thine is the... "Glory" Thine is the "Kingdom"
- Thine is the... "Power"
- Darfur Vigil Goal: Post-it Note Darfuries to the Hearts
- The "Our Father" saved me again, and again...
- The movie "Rudy." SPIRIT IS THE ONLY SUCCESS.
- Is Truth how Love is Awakened / Released?
- TRUTH IS THE GOD I'VE SERVED; THE GOD I SERVE. AWESOME.
- Christian? GLOBAL FAMILY MEMBER - BROTHER / SISTER.
- GOD'S ECONOMY - "GLOBAL FAMILY" EXISTS (opposite of Consumer Capitalism)
- GOD'S WILL: GATHER HEARTS FOR THE LEAST OF THESE HER FAMILY
- WE ARE THE "DAILY BREAD"... OR THERE IS NONE !!!!!!!
- ONLY SELFISHNESS FOR JOY/LOVE/PEACE/LIFE CAN SAVE THE WORLD, OR YOU
- YOUR HEART STOPPING HELPS WHEN?
- Darfur is so somple to solve! So is Congo, Palestine, Iraq....
- E=MCsqd. "THY KINGDOM COMES AS THY WILL IS DONE..."
- 3. "Your Kingdom come[s]"4. "[As] Your will [is] done on earth as it is in Heaven
- We must become bunkerbusters to the glacier of selfishness entoumbing human hearts
- Salvation: Sickening selfishness, Awakening the heart
- HUNGER STRIKE. THE WEAPON OF MASS CONSTRUCTION OF HEAVEN
- Redeeming the world's heart: our movies are full of it
- I MAY BE THE ONLY ONE WITH HOPE, THAT CAN SEE VICTORY
- VIOLENCE CAN ONLY MOVE OR MAGNIFY VIOLENCE. START LOVING.
- Gandhi - Give me a military man, NOT a coward
- JESUS LED US TOWARD SUFFERING. Less we'll do for "our family?"
- 24/7 The Only Work is Spirit ("Germ" Warfare)
- "Doing much good."
- THE WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD
- IMAGINE WE'VE BEEN TAUGHT THE WRONG LIFE! WE HAVE...
- A "RIGHT" = THAT WHICH IS "RIGHT"
- Imagine Heaven: Its key dimensions
- Heaven on earth: Property Rights Heaven on earth: Laws
- Heaven on earth: Infrastructure
- Heaven on earth: Religion
- Heaven on earth: Geographical boundaries
- Heaven on earth: Time horzon / focus
- Heaven on earth: Resource extraction
- Heaven on earth: Resource distribution
- Heaven on earth: Activities
- Heaven on Earth: How time is spent
- Imagine Heaven: What it looks like
- "LOVE AND JOY ARE IN SHARING THE EMERGENCY." Start...
- THE ALMIGHTY LIES IN THE DIRECTION OF "OVERWHELMIN...
- Transforming "they should" into "I'M GOING TO TRY....
- "OUR FATHER... DELIVER US [ALL TO "WE;" TO PEACEMAKING...
- "I STRIVE TO BE A DIRE THREAT," START LOVING
- "ANYWAY." Prayer of Teresa & Keith
- I WILL STAND WITH TRUTH AS IT COSTS MY LIFE
- JESUS FOLLOWERS FOLLOW THE "ALMIGHTY"
- NOT "COMMANDMENT!" JESUS GAVE THE "SOLUTION!!!"
- THE "PEARL" / "TREASURE" OF JESUS
- What has brought "Heaven" into your life?
- IF YOU WERE ONE "CELL," WHERE WOULD YOU FOCUS YOUR BODY?
- Jesus follower? WOULD BE LEADER
- "CHRISTIAN" MARRIAGE? TOTAL SERVICE.
- "Start, you are nothing more than a walking sign..."
- RIZPAH
- Get LOVE (OPPOSITE OF LUST!!!!!) and you Get GOD (OPPOSITE OF MAMMON)!
- Sudan Embassy Hunger Strike: Bringing death to our doorstep.
- Christian? Soldier. YOU take away the sins of the world.
- CONSTRUCTIVE LEADERSHIP IS THE FOCUSING OF ENERGY
- LOVE IS EVERYTHING. LOVE IS THE HOPE.
- JESUS USED PARABLES BECAUSE THEY ACTIVATE THE HEAR...
- PEACEMAKING, THE FINAL FRONTIER...GOING WHERE THIS MAN HAS NEVER GONE BEFORE
- ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE FOR "NONVIOLENCE"
- IF WE HUMANS ARE ONE BODY, WHAT DOES OUR FATHER SEE?
- PARABLE OF: "DO NOT WORRY ABOUT YOUR LIFE, WHAT YOU WILL EAT...."
- JESUS SHOWED US HOW TO WIN THE GAME - END WAR, STAVE OFF ARMAGEDDON
- Waging Brotherhood: Spiritual JuJitsu
- GOD IS KINDNESS. PERIOD. YES?
- ULTIMATE FREEDOM? FREEDOM FROM DISCONNECTION
- !!!!! SUFFERING FOR JOY !!!!!!
- "GROUNDHOG DAY." 3RD, DOMINANT FACE OF "SALVATION...
- FRODO AND SAM. THE TWO FACES OF SALVATION
- Readiness for Responsibility, Health, comes from Connection
- YOU CHOOSE YOUR KINGDOM / STATE OF MIND / WORLD
- Nonviolent Revolutionary Behaviors
- BOTTOM LINE: WHAT KIND OF 80 YRS DO YOU WANT?
- JESUS EXTOLS FEARLESSNESS; BUSH - FEAR
- LIFE IS GIVEN TO SPEND FOR GOOD
- "Addicted to [our] own place and privilege." Bill Moyers
- Ultimate Success
- THE INFANT IS "CREATION" AND "CREATOR"
- HYPOCRITE: "ACTOR;" "PLAYING A PART"
- EFFECTIVE RADICALISM IS INFINITELY DIFFICULT
- If there were Christians there would be no Terrori...
- ULTIMATE ADVENTURE; THE REASON TO "BE" "GOOD"
- ML King: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS?"
- "LOVING" IS THE "SOLUTION" FOR THE HEART
- "LUSTING" IS THE "SOLUTION" FOR THE FLESH
- QUALITY or QUANTITY of LIFE. You WILL choose.
- *** YOU GET WHAT YOU "PAY FOR" ***
- VIOLENCE = EXTORTING "THE PRICE" FROM OTHERS
- Walking the path: weed or cultivate? WEED BARRIER
- May 23: 22 Priests go on Hunger Strike
- WHERE IS THE SELFISHNESS / SIN /ERROR IN MY LIFE?
- "And the children shall lead us." A letter from a leader.
- SATAN NOT JESUS WOULD BLOCK "HEAVEN" WITH DOGMA
- I think I'll fail. I think I'll always keep trying this approach; breathing.
- "Brother" is how Start is most frequently addresse...
- STANDING IN SOLIDARITY: ARE THERE DEGREES?
- START LOVING (YOUTUBE)
- Moon explorers first left their "home world"
- DIVINE: THAT WHICH NOTHING IS MORE WONDERFUL THAN...
- What are you living for? It is your bottom line. Happy?
- COMMENTS ON EMBASSY CAMPAIGN to a very blunt, very wonderful sister
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