... I don't think it's about being "holy", really. I'm not holy. Bach said that we seek the problems themselves because we need their gifts. I think that as...
In a message dated 11/5/02 5:50:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... I wish I could say the same, but I guess I'm not that holy yet! I despise the physical and...
Since we're quoting Bach's "Illusions" I thought I'd do the same! "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems...
from his book "Illusions"... Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over...
"We are all erring creatures, and mainly idiots, but God made us so and it is dangerous to criticise." -Mark Twain "Danger and I were born together and I am...
Michael Benner wrote: "A great deal of frustration can be avoided when we give up trying to control others (the stimulus done to us) and instead, consciously...
In a message dated 11/4/02 10:16:06 PM GMT Standard Time, ruth@... writes: << Basically, what I'm saying is that, although I understand that games...
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Albert Camus said, "Life is the sum of the choices we make." Another popular, though anonymous aphorism says, "Life is what you make it." A great deal of...
... Now John responds with: No, I'm saying ""the choices we make as a result -- SOMETIMES -- aren't much of a choice" (you misquoted me underneath the very...
I speak my mind, and I feel it's only fair for me to point this out because I do not feel I'm being truly honest unless I do. I know that some people like to...
To believe that we could or should be able to "choose" everything that happens to us in life is to believe that we can control everything outside of ourselves....
Whether Sophie lost a child in an accident, or due to Nazi's, either way it was something that was out of her control. It's how she DEALS with it that is...
"May I be so bold as to ask, was your family physically taken away, or do you euphemistically mean that they were in some nefarious way caused to stop...
ruthie: May I be so bold as to ask, was your family physically taken away, or do you euphemistically mean that they were in some nefarious way caused to stop...
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I have a beautiful family. A strong mother, a wonderful sister and talented brother, and 6 beautiful neices and nephews. I love my family very very much. I...
Ron Or Ruthie, Didn't Sophie choose the child she thought was most likely to perish if not taken? I'm not really sure it was a long time ago that I saw the...
With "Sophie", if one of her children had been killed in an accident, she woulddn't have made that choice. In the real story, she had to choose -- or lose...
"If I was an alien entity looking at humans on Earth over history, I'd think it's normal for people to fight, backstab, steal, kill, destroy, despair, envy,...
Here's the link to Jan's Archive of Genie's SWR Tapes: http://www.thehemperor.net/nontesters/thehemperor/archives.html ... Jan ... to- ... a ... and...
If any of yáll are planning to attend this year's Cannabis Cup http://www.420tours.com/statement2.html be sure to let me know you'll be there so we can have a...
The following benner-nooz-list poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Here's a question for the group. Yahoo has a feature that allows...
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Disinterneta Go calmly amid the ads and spam, and remember what tranquility there may be in screen savers. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good...
... I understand this, and I've been trying to do that, to varying degrees of success, for several years now. Nonetheless, it's incredibly difficult (for me,...
It hurts. Period. That's what I'm focusing on. How much it hurts. That's where my attention lies. On the pain. The pain is what IS. There is nothing else but...
"If you get a debilitating disease, your body is weaker, and/or less able to perform "normal" functions of various kinds. Ask any physician. Is this not a...
Michael Benner's Ruts & Grooves Commentary for Sentient Beings Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002 "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." -- John Lennon Though most...
This is the latest speech from U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). It is a long piece, but very important -- perhaps the only sane, conscious voice in...
Printed from http://www.thenation.com COMMENT | Special Report Peace And Nuclear Disarmament: A Call To Action "... Come my friends, `tis not too late to seek...
A speech by United States Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio)to a symposium by Southern California Americans for Democratic Action at the University of...