January 2012
45 posts
#Tao
revdocdavid:
Those with the most Appear to have the least.
The virtue of The Way Looks lax; the solidest Truth looks like sand; Its sharpest edge Has no corner; Its loudest sound Makes no noise at all. It is amorphous, Unfinished.
It is the shadow of a shadow.
The Way is hidden, Is nameless; The Way Is the beginning that Completes everything.
December 2011
37 posts
One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
Q&A: The iPad Way to Undo - NYTimes.com →
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She Who Seeks: The Lord's Prayer: Liberation... →
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Queer Jihad: The Truth About How American Muslims... →
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“When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When...”
– Howard Thurman
“Yet with the woes of sin and strife
the world has suffered long;
Beneath the...”
– Edmund Hamilton Sears, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Unitarian, minister, poet)
Gay-friendly clergy disinvited from Castro church →
progressivepatriotgirl:
Most Holy Redeemer Church, a Catholic parish in the middle of the Castro, is in trouble again with church leaders over how best to minister to its heavily gay and lesbian congregation.
In the latest incident, Archbishop George Niederauer had the church’s pastor, the Rev. Steve Meriwether, rescind invitations to a trio of gay-friendly clergy scheduled to speak at a...
“In the solstice darkness meet with wonder what is germinating in your heart.”
– Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi (via chalicelight)
“We can all do something for unity and peace.
We can each be generous, kind,...”
– Máiread Corrigan-Maguire, International Peace Conference in Munich, 1999 (via revnaomiking)
Declaration of Human Rights - Human Rights Day →
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Theopoetics: #Tao te Ching 23 →
revdocdavid:
We speak few words by nature—
High winds do not last the whole
Morning; a deluge does not pour
All day. Why? Because even heaven
And earth cannot stay violent long. When we make The Way our study
Those pursuing it agree with us,
And those practicing it agree with us,
And even those…
Theopoetics: #Tao te Ching 16 →
revdocdavid:
Emptiness should be cultivated,
Stillness carefully guarded. All things go after their fashion,
Then return to rest again. Plants grow luxuriant,
Then return to their roots
Which is the state of stillness
At which we can say they
Have fulfilled their end. That end is the unchanging …
Process Musings: Book Review: Radical Love: An... →
processmusings:
Patrick S. Cheng., Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology., Seabury Books: New York., 2011
In Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology, Patrick S. Cheng develops an introduction to the study of queer theology, as well as provide a commentary of resources for…
Theopoetics: #Tao Te Ching 22 →
revdocdavid:
Part becomes whole;
Crooked, straight;
Empty, full;
The wrecked, new.
Those with few desires get them;
Those with many do not.
For this reason wise ones
Embrace oneness and
Humility in this world.
Wise ones are free from egotism,
And therefore…
“Blessed are you who know that the work of the church is transformation of...”
– John Buehrens (Unitarian Universalist, minister, author, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association 1993-2002)
“Poetry is knowledge, salvation, power, abandonment. An operation capable of...”
– Octavio Paz, quoted in Bruce McEver’s essay “Poetry: A Bridge to the Sacred,” from the current winter issue: “Many Paths, One Truth.” (via parabola-magazine
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“Blessed are you who know that the work of the church is transformation of...”
– John Buehrens (Unitarian Universalist, minister, author, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association 1993-2002)
“Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.”
– Julia Ward Howe (Unitarian, author, social reformer)
