Contemplations

Random Thoughts & Ponderings

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Free Ebook | On Forgiving: A Primer

After years of struggling with the issue of forgiveness and finally learning to embrace it, I decided to compile my...

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Contemplation: Heaven & Hell

I believe heaven and hell to be earthly estates, conditions brought about by our own thoughts, behavior, and actions; that...

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Contemplation: Make Today Day One!

Make today day one: venture out onto that court; make that phone call; visit that place you’re interested in (if...

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Contemplation: An Appropriate Degree of Disconnection

Today, the advent of the Internet, cell phone networks, social media, and the prevalence of digital cameras everywhere has created...

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Contemplation: Aligning Your Thoughts & Actions With Your Prayers

If that for which you pray is still far from you, you may be praying for one thing, while living...

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Contemplation: The Silence of the Lambs

When I was a kid, I somehow got it in my head that I wanted to start collecting butterflies...

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Contemplation: Can We Wait Until The Next Extinction-Level Impact Event?

Cover Image: Rendition of the Chicxulub crater near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico Unfortunately, according to historical precedent, statistically the...

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Contemplation: God as Truth

I am increasingly coming to believe that God is Truth; or rather, Truth is God… I recently touched on the...

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Contemplation: New Religion = New Tyranny?

I recently read the following passage in The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by Ilia Delio, Founder of  the Center for...

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Contemplation: Everything Happens for a Reason

For most of my life, whenever I considered the phrase "everything happens for a reason", I would conjure some sort...

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Contemplation: The Gospel of Living & Doing

The word "believe" does not connote the expression of a pious opinion nor does it signify simple credence about a...

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Contemplation: Rendering Unto Caesar

I’m currently in the throes of this amazing 1030-page novel, The Instructions by Adam Levin… …and in the process, I...

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Contemplation: Peace Within

I recently read the following passage by philosopher James Allen in his collection Mind is the Master, and it really...