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On this thread in questionofgod, members are giving summaries of their creeds. This is the summary of mine which I provided.

My ideas about God:
· God is that which never acts yet leaves nothing undone. (Paraphrase from the Tao Te Ching.)
· God is the potential whereby things exist and events occur.

My ideas about cultivating awareness of divine presence:
· "Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness." (Meister Eckhart)
· The stillness of the meditator becomes the stillness that is the divine presence.
· Once this awareness has been cultivated, the mystic must turn this awareness (which is potential) outward into action for it to manifest.
· The human brain contains the keys whereby one can cultivate awareness of divine presence.
· We are all called upon to be the savior.

My ideas about creation/reality/the universe:
· Though we can make distinctions between one "thing" and another, everything "inter-is" with everything else. (from Thich Nhat Hanh)
· "Spirit" interpenetrates all living things; each of us borrows a "spark" of this eternal spirit which returns to the whole upon our passing. This is what I believe some sages mean when they speak of "eternal life" and what other sages mean when they speak of nirvana or the dissolution of the self.
· The "self" is a piece of the larger "Self". This view reflects the Vedic notion of Brahman and Atman.

Edit. This entry will be updated from time to time, to reflect evolving clarification of my creedal summary.

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Yeah, but it's still a frozen wasteland. So there. Pbbbt.

Massachusetts court strikes down ban on same-sex marriage

The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday it is unconstitutional for the state to deny marriage to gay and lesbian couples, a move that could make the state the first to legalize same-sex marriages.

In a ruling posted on its Web site, the Supreme Judicial Court said the state of Massachusetts may not "deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry."

On an unrelated note (putting this here so as not to make a separate entry) I note that several of you seem to be under the weather, and a few of you facing serious medical stuff. Blessings and health to you all.

here's this thing again

Last time I took the test I got a "medium" on "histrionic." I do think this may be a real tendency within me (part of me screams defensively, "but I don't need to be in the spotlight, really!"), but at least it is one I can temper...

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Low
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Low
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	Low
Narcissistic:	Low
Avoidant:	Low
Dependent:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Low
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