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Thinking of Freedom, Religiously

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Perhaps April is the month of freedom. It certainly is for at least some major swaths of the population: Jews celebrated Passover during April, commemorating their deliverance from slavery in Egypt at the hand of God. Republicans like me hoped for the freedom to pay fewer taxes on April 15. Even stoners thought about freedom [...]

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Faith in ourselves

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I was looking through some past journals and blogs that my friends and I had and I read this on my best friend’s blog one day.
Two men went fishing. One was an experienced fisherman, the other wasn’t. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it in his ice chest to keep [...]

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The history of the world

Friday, January 23, 2009

As I was reading through some of the lectures of Swami Vivekananda, I came across the following quote:

“Great sages come with special messages for the world, and not for name; but their followers throw their teaching overboard and fight over their names — this is verily the history of the world.” 

Swamiji points out that saints [...]

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