[Dialogue] BLOG for Journey Reflection (daily quote)

[John Cock]

Colleagues (please DO NOT clik "reply" to this e-mail), 

Since 8/25, wanted a way for immediate comments to the daily quotes and
reflections. Spent Labor Day morning with son Jeremiah setting up a
blog.

GUIDELINES for COMMENTS: Click "comments">"Post Comment">"anonymous(ly)"
to bypass i.d. form> "publish" after you write comment. Feel free to put
name or initials.

Beside "comments" is envelope icon so you can send the Journey
Reflection to widen circle of conversation. This Goggle blog is pretty
simple. Free. 
 
Can bookmark link(s). Others (60+) asked for daily e-mail reminder with
the links below -- content same in both. Contact:
mailto:jpc2025 at triad.rr.com 

BLOG LINK: 
http://www.ReJourney.blogspot.com 

WEB PAGE LINK: 
http://www.johnpcock.homestead.com/JourneyReflection.html 

Trust this experiment will be a "spot" of reflection for the daily
journey, 

John 

Sampling:
 
Some days it will just be a quote:
 
8/31/04 Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to
life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all. As you proceed
through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't
bother to brush it off. ~Joseph Campbell 

Some days it will be a quote with reflection afterwards:
 
9/2/04 What is needed, then, is a new other-worldliness . . . [a]
post-liberal . . . attack on pure secularism. ~H. Richard Niebuhr
 
Niebuhr's "new other-worldliness" goes back to the Old Testament's "God
is with us," or Jesus' "The kingdom of God is at hand . . . . If you
have seen me you have seen my Father," or Tillich's "the Eternal now,"
or Buber's "meeting the Eternal Thou in any thou," or Mathew's "The
Other World is in this world; the Other World is the world of
transparency," or Alan Watts' "the immediate, everyday, and present
experience is IT," or Wilber's "absolute reality and the relative world
are 'not-two.'" 

There is one world and whatever-you-call-it is at the heart of every
event and element of ongoing creation. I like to say spirit ("Spirit,"
if you prefer) is always already present. 

All these are metaphors of the "new other-worldliness" that is as old as
consciousness. At any rate, this understanding supersedes the emptiness
and illusions of "pure secularism." Oh to be a "post-liberal." ~jpc