Listen: Eyvind Kinnrif

 

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Readings: 

 

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“Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right.   Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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“In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.”
― Billy Graham

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“[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one's native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms.”
― George Orwell

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“Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.”
― John Lancaster Spalding

 

 

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Meditation:

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Feel your substance, Bones, flesh, blood,
Saturated with cosmic essence.

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