... as on a straight road

Knock on yourself as upon a door, and walk upon yourself as on a straight road. For if you walk on the road, it is impossible for you to go astray. And if you knock with Wisdom, you knock on hidden treasures. - The Teachings of Silvanus

Notes from the road. People met. Friends found.

Father Tim
Parish of St Uriel the Archangel
Sydney, Australia

Nov 17
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“ Our inner “God detector” works. We have that strange inner sense of the divine, but the divine does not seem any closer, necessarily, because of that sensitivity. And thus the heartache of being a human caught between these two awarenesses.
— Lynn Baumann (Sensitivity to Holiness)
Jul 04
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“ …if you are not going to join a monastery, establish some spiritual occupation, or go homeless than STFU about it and get in the game. Non-materialism is not your practice, embrace that. Than find the amount of wealth that you think you want and go for it. If like me you want a more or less normal middle class life, with little stress from work, than make that. If however you want the million dollar chateau in wine country, than go for that. Balance it against your spiritual needs, but dont pretend that you are on some non-materialistic spiritual path while you sip your americano. Its just a lie.
— Strategic Sorcery: Funny about money
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“ I let go my desire for security and survival.
I let go my desire for esteem and affection.
I let go my desire for power and control.
I let go my desire to change the situation.
— Contemplative Photography: The Welcoming Prayer
May 29
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“Words of Advice For Young People” by William S Burroughs (via BaronSCameron)

Mar 22
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“ For He is your being, and you are what you are in him, not only as your cause and your being, but because he dwells in you as your cause and being.
— The Book Of Privy Counselling. Chap.1
Mar 17
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“ God lets the world run as it is, but if ninjas attacked, God would make sure you’d know kung fu.  But there’s no religion here, you don’t need to go to church for this, you just need to believe that God is watching out for you.  This is why organized religion is in serious decline.   There’s no way a Catholic God will upload kung fu when you need it.  Access to that kind of transcendent knowledge requires Buddhism, or agnosticism.  It requires you not to know who He is, so you can make Him into whatever you need Him to be. You’re not going to subject yourself to His rules; you’re going to subject Him to yours.
— The Last Psychiatrist: What Was The Matrix?
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“ There must exist, beyond mere appearances … a ‘veiled reality’ that science does not describe but only glimpses uncertainly. In turn, contrary to those who claim that matter is the only reality, the possibility that other means, including spirituality, may also provide a window on ultimate reality cannot be ruled out, even by cogent scientific arguments.
— French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat quoted in the New Scientist
Mar 14
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Sydney War Memorial being renovated into a temple of Isis.

Sydney War Memorial being renovated into a temple of Isis.

Jul 20
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“ Our culture is a desert culture, but one which has infiltrated our cities and become urban. It is a wild culture in which God is everywhere, a culture of outsiders that has seen persecution. It has lain fallow, housing living information from a number of different traditions, syncretic, sacramental.
— Summer Harvest » The Temple and The Bridal Chamber