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Only One Away with words! No...away with thoughts! Let them all drop, like The clothes you would shed For one night with your dream. Be like the moon, full With only her lover's light. Trip! And fall into a happy accident. Empty your mind into adoration. Sweat your bliss -- massage it Through every pore, deep Into your heart and soul... "La Illaha, Il Allahu", For this is the truth: One is All there Is! 
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Neither campaigns nor jihads can justify either lies or bombings. The Holy One cannot be manipulated into endorsing tactics over people. The so-called faith of both extremist and fundamentalist is just another tactic in their pursuit of power. Any "faith" that does not require of its adherents to be kind, peaceful, and just -- even when personally inconvenient -- or challenge the legitimacy of governments that fail to foster and defend the same in society, is contrary to the wisdom teachings of all the prophets. Faith is compassion. Faith is kindness and hospitality to the stranger. Faith is a love that seeks to love without limits. Faith is feeding the hungry; faith is justice and equality for everyone enshrined into civil law. Faith is international economic and social justice. Faith is constructing the social conditions that make for peace everywhere, leaving no person or people behind. Faith is ensuring that every resource is used for the common good. Faith is the sure knowledge that wherever there is suffering, it is there that the Holy One can be found. And faith leads the believer there, before going to temple, church, or mosque. Finally, faith is the deep understanding that we live in relationship with Mother Earth, and that she recognizes neither nation nor border. For the powerful of this world, people are subjects to be used, abused, exploited, violated, ignored, humiliated, consumed, or eliminated in pursuit of their agendas. For the faithful, though, people are always, with all of their foibles and follies, cherished and revered.  Core Personalist Principles for Transforming the 21st Century: 1. Love is our highest call as human beings. 2. The person is the highest value. 3. Service to the common good is the responsibility of each one of us. 4. Every institution (economic, political, religious, educational, and cultural) must serve to liberate every person into the fullness of their possibilities. 5. We are all members of one another and so cannot justify leaving anyone behind. 6. The earth belongs to the children, seven generations from now. 7. Reverence for the earth and all life is essential spirituality. 8. "Property, the more common it is, the more holy it becomes." (St. Gertrude) 9. Only social justice can create the conditions necessary for peace to prevail. 10. Authentic revolution and cultural transformation begins and ends with absolute equality between women and men, facilitated by a guaranteed human right of equal access to personal, social, economic, and political power.  |
AuthorRobert Daniel Smith was privileged to serve the homeless and marginalized for 30 years in California. He is living now almost within shouting distance of the Twin Cities. He is a poet, artist, writer, and long-time Companion of the Way still dreaming... Archives
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