Freedom always frightens people who are hiding from themselves inside a rigid religious practice.
01902 – Hiding from Ourselves?
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01893 – Liberty’s Meaning
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Christians are to be people of service. They are not to think they came into the world to sit at a banquet, but they are to wait on their Master while he sits at the table. Too many consider that the services of the sanctuary are intended merely to feed them. They...
01881 – Examining Big Questions about Our Existence
Socrates famously declared that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’ It is one of the most quoted classical sayings outside the Bible, but it is followed less than it is quoted. And if Socrates is correct, it would mean that many people, even highly educated...
01880 – Causing vs. Feeling Pain
I think my despair is people still opt for causing pain rather than feeling it.
01873 – Bad Leaders
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated; they oppress.
01859 – A Meaningful Life
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That's what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one's community.
01852 – Your Frame of Vision
There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul. In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows. Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way. Real...
01839 – Been Fooled?
It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.
01828 – What is Power?
Power is not controlling other people. Power is controlling yourself. Trying to control other people is the first sign that you are entirely out of control. Controlling others is what weak people think power looks like.