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But that mental ability, akin to creativity, may be a lot of what faith is. “Vision” keeps us on the trail of effective and meaningful living. Acceptance also seems part of the faith pie chart. One can accept the negative surface outcomes because he or she sees the potential. To me, potential...

I can relate to being more philosophical than the surrounding culture. Not a lot of philosophy and art in the farm community where I was raised. The emphasis was on getting the crops in so we could survive. Not at all gibberish

Epistemological philosopher Ken Wilber, admonishes NOT to conflate physical depth with psychologically “deep” thoughts and states. But if the conflation happens to work in terms of helping increase useful faith, why not “go there?” Perhaps God gave us some low hanging fruit to work with and...

Based on the way physical things act, according to quantum scientists and theorists, at the subatomic level, it appears that physically deep reality is much more convergent, overlapping, interconnected, etc.than on the surface where we and other “classical objects” dwell and make mental pictures...

When my wife did her first (and only!) backpacking trail with my two sons and me out west, it became very clear how important it was to manage her expectations. Hope of finishing any time soon would have crushed her once she saw the reality of how far we still had to go. But a...

Good. Use faith to make it a nice day. Even if a bad day on the outside, use what God put (or just what naturally is, but we call it “God”) DEEP inside you to make lemonade out of its lemons.

I’ve never been fond of that definition. And not sure why. Too complicated? (That’s a hoot, considering it’s coming from me, a person known for complicated variations on the theme!). Hope placed up front too much (although “substance” suggests a solid base behind mere wishful hope)? Still not...

Thanks for participating. I simply mean act of faith that helps us cope well, instead of the belief system. Adjective instead of noun?

Based on this poem ( Happy Accident Hope is a happy accident of faith. But don’t get over your skies, lest you tumble down the slope of expectation, where your broken body of belief will freeze. ) I’d like to get your thoughts about “hope.” My thinking lately is that faith trumps...

My comment before this ( in response to this — 2. and 3. may not be wrong, but 1. certainly is not all right. There are moments in life when we have a legitimate, non-sick, need to summon up support when and where it seems absent or lean. A view of the deep zone (or other areas) of hidden...

2. and 3. may not be wrong, but 1. certainly is not all right. There are moments in life when we have a legitimate, non-sick, need to summon up support when and where it seems absent or lean. A view of the deep zone (or other areas) of hidden resources is sometimes aided by personification.

That’s quite a chew! Just now got around to reading briefly through. Quite a chew and don’t yet have a clue!!!!

If individual objects or beings can’t be real without a context of relationships with other things, then if a person relates to God (imaginary or not, from an objective reality perspective) God is to that person real. If we don’t relate to God (whatever God is or isn’t) then God is not real...

I’m a lifelong Christian, but now that I belong to a progressive church in a fairly affluent area, I often think that a mixing in of Buddhism would fit better with our situation, since the Buddha had plenty (like us) and saw riches beyond the materialism. We need to grow spiritually more than we...

Is there room in an interfaith community and/or marketplace of thoughts for “trans-theism”? In which God is both real and not real, exists and not exists? I dreamed last night that I was philosophizing that singular things aren’t real unless relative to other things. It was a yen/yang kind of...

Perhaps we should apply the Nike slogan to Brahman? Just do it!

But the Oneness we are discussing here CAN help us integrate inner and outer resources. A calling out for in a social/interpersonal sense, but more like stepping into, or aligning with, in an intentional being sense. The Judeo/Christian tradition is awfully social and personifies spiritual...

I like that a lot. Similar to the observer effect postulated in Quantum Physics Theory, in which regular human consciousness during the act of observation tends to make quanta act more like a particle than a wave (reverse madusa—creature described in Homer’s The Odyssey— that would turn the...

The notion of continuous self-origination could work from a kind of overall reality that unfolds (and is taken back into) a deep zone that has no time or space. The creator God would be how we see it from a time/space perspective. But perhaps it is continuous creation all the time from everywhere?

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