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Being true to our essential nature, living in the service of our innate virtues/traits/characteristics and doing what is needed, when, where, and how it is needed in each situation as it arises, has nothing to do with wanting, having, getting, acquiring, owning, amassing, seizing, striving, forcing, and living to have our way at the expense of everyone else's way. It flips the switch, turns things around, stops the madness and opens the way to life and light and peace. I wonder why we haven't thought of this before, and started sooner. But, now is all we have ever had to work with, so why not get things going now?
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
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The old Taoists beat me to it. I’m just passing along what I’ve heard. Which is one definition of evangelism: “One beggar telling another where they have found food.” It has been dissed by capitalism because it isn’t profitable. Christianity, on the other hand has been, until recently, highly profitable, selling heaven with The Way to get there. Since money is now able to buy “heaven on earth,” the ancient paradigm no longer works and the church is drying up, with all the symbols it needs for vibrant life, spilling out, pouring over, all around. All it needs to do is reinterpret the symbols in a way that revives them and makes them relevant, here and now. Ah, but, “the stone the builders reject,” you know, having eyes to see and not seeing, not looking…
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