CONNECTIONS

SEPARATENESS IS AN ILLUSION.
EVERYTHING IS INTER RELATED - IN TIME, IN SPACE
AND IN OUR VERY BEING.
EVERYTHING IS RELATED TO EVERYTHING ELSE.

INVISIBLE LINES OF CONNECTIONS IS ABOUT SIGNS OF THE SACRED HE DISCOVERS IN EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE. ALL BECOMES PLAYERS IN THE SACRED STORY.

THROUGHOUT ALL CREATION, JUST AS BENEATH THE SURFACE, JOINING EACH PERSON TO EVERY OTHER PERSON AND TO EVERY OTHER THING IN AS LUMINOUS ORGANISM OF SACRED RESPONSIBILITY. GOD THEN IS THE ONE THOUGHT WHOM EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING ELSE.

INTERBEING: WHEN YOU TOUCH ONE. YOU TOUCHED MANY, AND WHEN YOU TOUCHED MANY, YOU TOUCHED ONE.

FAITH IS CREATIVE

FAITH IS THE WAY TO LIFE.
BELIEVING IS TAKING A RISK AND ONLY EXPERIENCE
WHETHER IT IS HUMAN OR HUMANE.

EVERYTHING HAS ITS TIME.
NO ONE'S HEART CAN BE COMPELLED TO LOVE.
GOD IS NOT AT YOUR DISPOSAL, THAT IS THE EXPERIENCE OF FAITH.

FAITH IS GRACE.

THE BELIEVER is a man who can stand up and, with open eyes and not as subordinate, entrust himself to another man. Taking others on trust, letting yourself be touched and called, appealed to by others, allowing yourself to be taught by and being amenable to what comes to you, having the courage to expect something from another person - - that attitude is known as FAITH.

BELIEVING IS INTIMATELY RELATED TO GROWING AND MATURITY. JUST AS A MATURE MAN CAN, THROUGHOUT THE THE WHOLE OF HIS LIFE, GROW IN PEOPLE, IN TOGETHERNESS WITH THEM, AND CAN HAVE A HISTORY WITH OTHER PEOPLE. JUST AS HE CAN BECOME MORE AND MORE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE EVENT THAT WE CALL "HUMAN EXISTENCE," SOMETHING THAT IS MUCH GREATER THAN ANYTHING THAT I MYSELF OR I AT MY OWN RISK CAN EVER GRASP.

AMBITION

What is harder for parents to control but has perhaps as great an effect is the level of privilege into which their kids are born.

Just how wealth or poverty influences drive is difficult to predict.

Grow up in a rich family, and you can inherit either the tools to achieve or the indolence of the aristocrat.

Grow up poor, and you can come away with either the motivation to strive or the inertia of hopelessness