best yet to be
musings on what is really real
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the best is yet to be To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death whether it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen…
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I knew so well the satisfaction of losing self in a perception of supreme power and love. –from The Varieties of Religious Experience What follows are some truly uplifting passages from William James’ book, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). The brother of novelist Henry James, William studied and wrote in the fields…
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excerpts from Huston Smith’s chapter on Christianity (in The World’s Religions) Introduction Our earthbound existence seems anything but fair, or just. If life is not simply a cruel joke, more must be in store for us. Mystics of various traditions report that our self-centered “reality” is an illusion, that the foundational principle of the worlds…
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