The Sidewalk Preacher
The voice of one crying in the wilderness
And raving in the streets. … More The Sidewalk Preacher
The voice of one crying in the wilderness
And raving in the streets. … More The Sidewalk Preacher
It is time for humanity to mature beyond false distinctions
It is time for Science and Religion to be seen and acknowledged as two poles of the same quest for Truth or Reality – one seeking the truth of the external world of forms, and the other in the internal world or consciousness, formless spirit. … More The Ultimate Synthesis
The Ideal, The Goal, Fulfillment, Perfection, Apotheosis The Quintessence, The Supreme, The Ultimate, The Pearl of Great Price, The Holy Grail, The Kingdom of Heaven, The Key to the Mystery, The diamond in the mind, The Jewel in the Lotus, The Philosophers Stone, The Elixir of Life, the consumation of the Magnum Opus The flowering of human consciousness, … More The Ideal
I. There is one God, one Truth, one Reality The transcendent ground of being, All is in God and God is in All. God is that which IS II. There is one Religion There are not hundreds of Religions on the Earth. Religion is the linking back of the individual with the whole. It is … More ONE
( ) It is the human condition to perpetually be tending towards home All human beings long to go Home. We have an intuition of some state of ultimate rest, peace, and safety. But we do not know how to find home, nor will we know it if we pass it on the way. … More Kosmic Homesickness
The paradox that is the law of life That to live we must die That to be, we must be not That to attain immortality we must pass through death That to be everything, we must be nothing That to have we must let go That to receive we must give That to keep we … More Paradox is the Law of Life
(Or, the fundamental split between the methods, directions and place of science and religion) What is the essence of the difference between these two domains? Science is objective Religion is subjective Science requires distance Religion requires participation, involvement Science is intellectual, an interest Religion is existential, a quest Science a curiosity, maybe even a fascination Religion … More The Fundamental Divide of Science & Religion
The science, which teaches arts and handicrafts Is merely science for the gaining of a living; But the science which teaches deliverance from worldly existence, Is not that the true science? Prajñadanda (The Staff of Wisdom) attributed to Nagarjuna There is nothing more difficult to find than ones own self The Supreme Science is the … More The Supreme Science
The ultimate gamble is to seek God
To risk it all for all
The supreme daredevil is the mystic, the truly religious man
For it is the adventure into the complete unknown, the utter mystery. … More The Gambler
What follows is a transcription taken from a reading by Bart Marshall of a section of his forthcoming book Christ Sutras . The book compiles the complete recorded sayings of Jesus Christ from twenty-five different gospels, not just the four canonical. Marshall says his intention in compiling the book is to create a document … More The Teaching of Jesus of Nazareth
Among Blind Willie Johnson’s 30 recordings of blues/gospel songs with fire and brimstone intensity is one song which stands alone as singular and haunting. Recorded in 1927, the instrumental Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground is unlike any of his other songs and unlike any other song on this earth. About Blind Willie … More Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, Live From The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth at Knossos was built by the craftsman and artisan Daedalus for King Minos of Crete. It held the Minotaur, which Theseus killed as he navigated the Labyrinth. Theseus only escaped because of the skein of thread given to him by Ariadne, whose name in Greek means most holy. The skein … More The Labyrinth of Life