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Have you ever been so enraptured by someone that when asked who you were, you couldn’t answer for just a second? I hope you’ve been that close to somebody before. When you have, you’ve been in touch with a much more important place.
When you began this journey, he says, there was a tenderness in your heart….Much of the religious journey is getting back to your heart, simply making it where you can feel again. This may not sound religious, but what else has meaning in the world, if your own heart is numb? he asks.
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Another Rigby Podcast: As Great As We Are America…God Likes Other People Too!
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The last in Dr. Rigby’s series of coupling the writings of Eastern Taoism together with the texts of Western Christianity, managing to unravel the mysteries of life in under twenty minutes.
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