An amalgamation of learning and truths, by Melissa Blackstone

Wellspring

An amalgamation of learning and truths

Melissa May 2008

 

Questions & Discovery

 

Grace & Equity in the midst of torture

Evil as distance from the worth of self and others

 

UU choice as emancipation and burden: thanks William Channing!

Listen: Way OPEN

 

 

Accountability for action= Social responsibility

"The inner journey, pursued faithfully & well, always takes us back to the world of action"

 

 

STRIVING: we are part of life; we co-create the reality in which we live

We are vessels and instruments of God

 

Notice JOY

 

Be still, and LISTEN

The still, small voice

 

Refute the refuge and ego of intellectualism

Opinions are self serving, and stifle others' inner teachers

 

Spiritual direction: A compass to my soul

Spiritual practices: I think I can, I think I can

 

Universalism

Humanism

Process Theology: Everything is connected…..STRIVE

Transcendentalism

 

Spiritual Awakening

Thoreau

Emerson

Yoga: Connoisseurs of the state of wonder

 

CalvinismàPuritanism

 

Servetus: a heretic

 

They died for what we take for granted