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Urantia Book 130:1.2
“The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth. The escape from the service of light and life can only result in those distressing conflicts with the difficult whales of selfishness which lead eventually to darkness and death unless such God-forsaking Jonahs shall turn their hearts, even when in the very depths of despair, to seek after God and his goodness. And when such disheartened souls sincerely seek for God—hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness—there is nothing that can hold them in further captivity. No matter into what great depths they may have fallen, when they seek the light with a whole heart, the spirit of the Lord God of heaven will deliver them from their captivity; the evil circumstances of life will spew them out upon the dry land of fresh opportunities for renewed service and wiser living."
Urantia Book 130:1.2 (Urantia Book Fellowship)
“The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth. The escape from the service of light and life can only result in those distressing conflicts with the difficult whales of selfishness which lead eventually to darkness and death unless such God-forsaking Jonahs shall turn their hearts, even when in the very depths of despair, to seek after God and his goodness. And when such disheartened souls sincerely seek for God—hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness—there is nothing that can hold them in further captivity. No matter into what great depths they may have fallen, when they seek the light with a whole heart, the spirit of the Lord God of heaven will deliver them from their captivity; the evil circumstances of life will spew them out upon the dry land of fresh opportunities for renewed service and wiser living."
Urantia Book 130:1.2 (Urantia Book Fellowship)
Thomas Merton (see below)
Aung San Suu Kyi
“One prisoner of conscious is one too many”
Aung San Suu Kyi
“The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth" Urantia Book quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
“One prisoner of conscious is one too many”
Aung San Suu Kyi
“The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth" Urantia Book quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi, 67, has been imprisoned by the military dictatorship in her homeland of Burma -- one of the most repressive countries on Earth.(CBS Evening News)
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, the most prominent human rights campaigner in the world, appeared at a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in her honor - 21 years after being awarded the prize while imprisoned. Scott Pelley talks to Suu Kyi about her years-long struggle for democracy. (NYT Article June 16, 2012)
“A person of conscious, 'one prisoner of conscious is one too many' ”
Quoted by Aung San Suu Kyi CBS Evening News 6-18-12
Quoted by Aung San Suu Kyi CBS Evening News 6-18-12
11/20/12
In historic visit to Burma, Obama meets with Aung San Suu Kyi:
Both Noble Peace Peace recipients.
In historic visit to Burma, Obama meets with Aung San Suu Kyi:
Both Noble Peace Peace recipients.
Survivor of the Nazi death camps Elie Wiesel shares with Scott Pelley (CBS NEWS) his thoughts about peace
Thomas Merton
"Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another 'thing' and as if His creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God. This is an entirely new perspective which many sincerely moral and ascetic minds fail utterly to see."
Thomas Merton. New Seeds of Contemplation. (New York: New Directions Books), p 21
Thomas Merton. New Seeds of Contemplation. (New York: New Directions Books), p 21
The Merton Prayer
(Prayer of Abandonment)
(Prayer of Abandonment)
Thomas Merton - Abbey of Gethsemani
Thomas Merton and Buddhism
The Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton
The Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton and the Urantia Book:
"Jesus brought to God, as a man of the realm, the greatest of all offerings: the consecration and dedication of his own will to the majestic service of doing the divine will. Jesus always and consistently interpreted religion wholly in terms of the Father's will. When you study the career of the Master, as concerns prayer or any other feature of the religious life, look not so much for what he taught as for what he did. Jesus never prayed as a religious duty. To him prayer was a sincere expression of spiritual attitude, a declaration of soul loyalty, a recital of personal devotion, an expression of thanksgiving, an avoidance of emotional tension, a prevention of conflict, an exaltation of intellectual, an ennoblement of desire, a vindication of moral decision, an enrichment of thought, an invigoration of higher inclinations, a consecration of impulse, a clarification of viewpoint, a declaration of faith, a transcendental surrender of will, a sublime assertion of confidence, a revelation of courage, the proclamation of discovery, a confession of supreme devotion, the validation of consecration, a technique for the adjustment of difficulties, and the mighty mobilization of the combined soul powers to withstand all human tendencies toward selfishness, evil, and sin".
Urantia Book 196:0.10
"Jesus brought to God, as a man of the realm, the greatest of all offerings: the consecration and dedication of his own will to the majestic service of doing the divine will. Jesus always and consistently interpreted religion wholly in terms of the Father's will. When you study the career of the Master, as concerns prayer or any other feature of the religious life, look not so much for what he taught as for what he did. Jesus never prayed as a religious duty. To him prayer was a sincere expression of spiritual attitude, a declaration of soul loyalty, a recital of personal devotion, an expression of thanksgiving, an avoidance of emotional tension, a prevention of conflict, an exaltation of intellectual, an ennoblement of desire, a vindication of moral decision, an enrichment of thought, an invigoration of higher inclinations, a consecration of impulse, a clarification of viewpoint, a declaration of faith, a transcendental surrender of will, a sublime assertion of confidence, a revelation of courage, the proclamation of discovery, a confession of supreme devotion, the validation of consecration, a technique for the adjustment of difficulties, and the mighty mobilization of the combined soul powers to withstand all human tendencies toward selfishness, evil, and sin".
Urantia Book 196:0.10
