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Saturday Apr 12, 2003
Confidence, Man
Most of us have heard or read about a “con man” who defrauded some individual. Usually, the “victim” is portrayed as an innocent. Through some manipulations the con man gains the confidence of the person about to get scammed, which usually means that the “mark” and his money will soon part company.
Look closer.
Thursday Apr 10, 2003
Redemption in April
Two historic messages of redemption take place this month—Passover and the Resurrection of Christ.
Passover celebrates the story of the prophet Moses who led the Hebrews from slavery to the Promised Land. The underlying themes of Exodus are identity, Universal law, prophecy, miracles, and faith.
Monday Apr 07, 2003
Do the Right Thing
God does not reward or punish you. He has given you the power to reward or punish yourself by the use or misuse of your own reason and will power. If you transgress the laws of health, prosperity, and wisdom you must inevitably suffer from sickness, poverty, and ignorance. However, you should strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weaknesses acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.
—from The Law of Success by Paramahansa Yogananda
If you’re ever in the Santa Monica, California area, give your self a gift and visit the Self-Realization Fellowship Center—an oasis.
Sunday Apr 06, 2003
See Me, Feel Me
Our perception creates our world. The following extract makes several good points. Keep in mind as you read that art from the soul transcends motive and artifice—consequently, the art is honest and leaves nothing out.
—The following is from Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes; P. Theobald, 1951
Whatever may be the language one happens to inherit, it is at once a tool and a trap. It is a tool because with it we order our experience, matching the data abstracted from the flux about us with linguistic units: words, phrases, sentences. What is true of verbal languages is also true of visual “languages”: we match the data from the flux of visual experience with image-clichés, with stereotypes of one kind or another, according to the way we have been taught to see.
Thursday Apr 03, 2003
The Eyes Have It
Some years ago in India, a student and his master were walking home along a dirt road.
The two walked mostly in quiet with the student breaking in here and there with questions about this and that.
Then the student, in the middle of his sentence, stopped and froze. Off to the side of the road lay the ravaged carcass of dog, its flesh rotted and ribcage exposed.
The master could tell that his student was visibly shaken by this “horror” and spectre of death.
Without hesitation, the master said in a strong voice: “Look! Have you ever seen such a magnificently white breastbone shining in the sun?”
The student shook his head as if trying to clear his thoughts, then looked at the master and then back at the remains of the dog.
The two men continued their walk, passed the dog who taught from death, and on toward their village in the distance.
