Posted in Life, Longing, Relationships, companionship, little things, tagged companionship, friendship, Life, life experiences, little things, mundane, sharing on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The seemingly mundane, lack-lustre non-events in our every day existence which seem to resonate with others. Did I share my recent experience with feeling the need for physical companionship? Just someone who would willingly take time from their day to spend a few moments over coffee with me? It would be so nice for another [...]
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Posted in Christianity and Taoism, Dr. Jim Rigby, Lessons for Living, Love Is, Love Is Not, Nature Religion, Non-Mainstream Religion, Non-Mainstream Theology, Podcast, Religion, Sacred Message, Spiritual Renewal, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Taoism, Taoism and Christianity, Truth, Uncategorized, tagged Abused, afraid of losing ourselves, asked where his authority came from, Biggest Problem You Now Face In Life, Brown symbolizes the earth our common ground, Buddah touched the earth, but rather stories celebrating the basic irresistabilit, By honoring the Parent who nourishes, By willing not to be a King, Can't find self-esteem in the eyes of another person, Can't quench your thirst with a mirage, Christ in his humility, Christian texts can be hard to hear, clutches to our own being, Constricted notion of self, Disowned humanity, essentially we choke ourselves into numbness, Every little afront will rip your heart out, Green represents Life itself, How dejected, How nebulous as the ocean, How worthless everything is if you don't realize what y, Humility brings us to a basic sanity, I alone am bereft, I alone am stubborn and uncouth, I alone am vague and uncertain, I alone seem confused, I am everything, I am nothing, I desire to be uniquely different from others, I have nothing, If your own heart is numb, It's A Wonderful Life! Dr. Rigby, It's incredibly easy to be upstaged, Johnny Cash, Joyful are the masses, leave the foam of all our problems, Literary addict, Masses all have a purpose, Motionless am I, Mystics, Naked, Nature Religion, Nobody wants to be an orphan, not for your books, Not having his own worth effected, Notes from recent podcast, Podcast, Problem is Ego, Real Love is Being Your Authentic Self, Red Green Brown, Red symbolizes the common blood of our humanity, Religious journey is getting back to your heart, Revealed our own humanity to us, Rigby refutes this interpretation, Risk being rejected if we're to be authentic, Sacred text from Taoism, Sage speaks, Scripture doesn't give us miracle stories, self-love, settle into the broth of reality, so enraptured by someone, suffering from an essential disorientation, that's where truth is, The Humility of Christ Podcast, The Life in You is the Most Valuable Thing You Have, then you've been in touch with a much more important pl, there was a tenderness in your heart, this sacred message has been heard all over the world, took us to our worth as human beings, trade away our true selves for higher positions, unlike mainstream theologians, Unlike Rick Warren Joel Olsteen or other mega church pu, Value your life over any object, water into wine, We can lose our true self, We've heard Christian texts in such bad ways, what else has meaning in the world, What would you trade it for, when asked who you were, When we pile up "stuff", When we think our worth increases, When we try to live in images, When you began this journey, When you don't know your own value, Where you can feel again, Whoever wins the rat race is still a rat right, Wound that's hard to deal with, You are loved, You can have it all My empire of dirt, you couldn't answer on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Critics of Pornography, Desire, Desire and Harm, Documentary, Dr. Robert Jensen, Film by Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker, Gender and Sexual Identities, Media Education Foundation, Money, Money and Sex, NOWAR, Pleasure, Porn Films, Pornography, Pornography Industry, Power and SEX, Relationships, Sex, Sexuality, Use of Pornography, XXX Rated, tagged Aimed Towards Elevating Humanity, Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Answers Questions, Audience, Austin TX, Authority on Porn, Can It Be All About Money and Power, Choice and System Constraint, Coming to DVD Fall 2008, Critics of Pornography, Debunk Myths, Denunciations, Desire and Harm, Discuss use of Pornography, Documentary Film, Dr. Jensen speak, Dr. Robert Jensen, Each One a Labor of Love, Effects of Porn, Film Documentary, Gain Popularity, Gender and Sexual Identities Shaped, Getting Off Pornography and the End of Masculinity, Greater sense of self-respect, Holistic Understanding, Humanity to Its Highest Potential, Interviews of Pornographers, Liberty and Responsibility, Masculinity, Media Education Foundation, Miguel Picker and Chyng Sun, Money, More and More Extreme, More Mainstream and Accepted, Newer Harsher and More Degrading, NOWAR, Open Lens Media, Performers, Porn Performers, Pornography, Priceless, Pricelsss, Q and A for viewers, Relationships, Relationships Shaped, Respect fo the Quality of Man He Represents, Robert Jensen, Robert Wosnitzer, Scholars in Psychology, Sex, Sexuality, Skin Flicks, The Price of Pleasure, The Price of Pleasure Pornography Sexuality and Relatio, Third Coast Activist, Treatments of Women, Trends in Pornography, UT Journalism Professor Dr. Robert Jensen, What is the Price, www.priceofpleasure.com, XXX Rated on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finding it deserving of his own personal Q&A, Dr. Robert Jensen, UT Journalism Professor and author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, will be on hand for Alamo Drafthouse Lamar’s Third Coast Film Night showing of this significant film, “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships” [52 minute documentary presented by Open [...]
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Posted in Aging, Caring for the Elderly, Compassion, Death and Dying, Disability, Elderly, End of Life, Prolonged Life, Prose & Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged Are you going to shoot me?, Dangling, Dangling above Death in a Living Hell, Dangling Priscilla, Death, Death & Dying, Disabled person, Disintegrating into Death, Flames of Hades, Hoya, I can't take it anymore, in suspension between heaven and hell, Kept alive by, Life forced upon her, nightmares, nightmarish, nightmarish visions, Prolonged Life, Slow Descent into Death, transport, useless body, Was I going to shoot her? on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever seen an disabled person suspended in mid-air–somewhere between heaven and hell by a HOYA ? It’s the stuff my nightmares are made of. I dangle Priscilla, a ninety year old invalid, by day and see nightmarish visions of her by night. The real nightmare is hers. She can’t take it anymore…she mumbles over and over [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Surrendering to what Is– Not as easy as it sounds! Try surrendering to a situation when YOU’RE angry! One of the things I have to remind myself of is—”I am not angry for the reason I think I am.” Have you ever noticed this? Beneath anger is a deeper emotion that I am feeling like hurt or that what happened or was said to me evoked in me a feeling of unlovable, guilt or shame. One cannot be in peace when one is in anger, because two contrasting emotions can not live in you at the same time.
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