GOD-centric End Notes

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End Notes

Theme Song: Happy Feet Blues – Wynton Marsalis

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Liberal is really a very nice word. Here are some synonyms from Dictionary.com: progressive, broad-minded, unprejudiced, beneficent, charitable, openhanded, munificent, lavish, generous, ample

Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith

Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing

W. B. Yeats, Leda and the Swan

“Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.” Meister Eckhart

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time

“One may never have heard the sacred word 'Christ', but be closer to God than a priest or nun.” St. Thomas Aquinas, Closer to God

The Four Bodhisattva Great Vows: Beings are numberless, I vow to save them; Desires are inexhaustible, I vow to end them; Dharma gates are boundless, I vow to enter them; Buddha's way is unsurpassable, I vow to become it.

“True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.” William Penn, No Cross, No Crown

Inanition is a two-bit word meaning spiritual exhaustion

“Love in its nature makes a human being like God, as far as it is possible for a human being... When someone is completely permeated with the love of God, the brightness of his soul is reflected by his whole personality as if in a mirror.” St. John Climacus, Stairway to Paradise

“Do not say that God does not manifest Himself to man. Do not say that men cannot perceive the divine light, or that it is impossible in this age! Never is it found to be impossible, my friends. On the contrary, it is entirely possible when one desires it.” St. Symeon the New Theologian, Hymns of Divine Love #7

“God does not need submissive and obedient slaves, always trembling and egoistically preoccupied with themselves. God needs sons and daughters, free and creative, loving and daring.” Nikolai Berdyaev, Salvation and Creativity

"God is not interested in where you are or what you do... He is interested only in the quality and quantity of the love you give. Nothing else. Nothing else." Mother Gavrilia, The Ascetic of Love

Emily Dickinson, Finding is the First Act: “Finding is the first Act/ The second, loss,/ Third, Expedition for/the ‘Golden Fleece’/ Fourth, no Discovery – / Fifth, no Crew – / Finally, no Golden Fleece – / Jason – sham – too.”

“Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.” Joseph Joubert, Thoughts, Essays, Maxims and Correspondence of J. Joubert

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (For you, Alice)

“Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistle

Dictionary.com

“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.” Will Rogers, spiritual guru

“God came to my house and asked for charity./ And I fell on my knees and cried, 'Beloved, what may I give?'/ 'Just love', he said./ 'Just love'.” St. Francis of Assisi, He Asked for Charity

“A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.” St. Hildegard von Bingen, Letter to Elisabeth of Schönau

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.” Buddha

Speech at opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University on March 31, 2005

Edward Dyer, My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is

“A truth that’s told with bad intent/ Beats all the lies you can invent.” William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

T.S. Eliot, Dry Salvages

http://smilegodlovesyou.org/names.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_deities

Bible, Matthew 22:37

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nature

“The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.” St. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellaneous Studies

When I Heard the Learned the Learn'd Astronomer

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers, spiritual guru