truth

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what." ~'Dr. Michael C. Anders,

If my friend asks me to sit in a temple belonging to a God that I do not know, because he needs a friend to sit with him, I will be happy to sit there in the foreign temple. Because the temple itself is an outer container only. What is the true religion? What is the inner oil contained by that outer container? The inner oil is the friendship I share with my friend. The true religion is being there to sit beside my friend. If I cannot do this for my friend, then how am I worthy to sit in any temple, whether belonging to a God that I know or to a God that I don't know? If there is no inner oil within my soul, I do not deserve to sit in any temple. Religion is the friendship within the heart, not the place where we sit on a holy day. Religion is the oil within the lamp, not the metal container we see as the lamp.

With the known, you simply repeat the process. With the unknown, you access the new doorways to life.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scare here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking TO do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all beneficial, God would use it really to bring one right back to Truth, as countless 'inventions' have brought men to discovery.

You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]

To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn.

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation....When I say 'I will be true to you' I must mean it in spite of the formalities, instead of the formalities.

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

Over the boundary of time,Hope transcends,Desire sings,One verse,One song,And that is the song of happiness.

You can't please all men, but you must desire to please God and love Him forever more.