5/28/2022
5/24/2022
Notes for How to Pray
"[When] the [Virginia] bill for establishing religious freedom... was finally passed,... a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion." The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend within the mantle of its protection the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo and infidel of every denomination."
--Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:67
5/10/2022
5/05/2022
Doors Perception
“If the doors of perception were cleansed
every thing would appear to us as it is,
Infinite."
~William Blake
Better a single moment
“Better a single moment of awakening in this world
than eternity in the world to come.
And better a single moment of inner peace
In the world to come than eternity in this world.
Why?
A single moment of awakening in this world
is eternity in the world to come.
The inner peace of the world to come
is living in this world with full attention.
The two are one, flip sides of a coin
forever tumbling and never caught.”
~Rabbi Jacob, Pirke Avot 4:22
5/04/2022
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