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About a changing universe, real relationships and avoiding the will to power
ooking for something else, I stumbled across some quotes I copied from Wm. Paul Young’s The Shack some time ago. This book had a profound impact upon me at a time of the most intense inner turmoil....
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Aftershocks can go on for years
The inevitable happens …. Geryon meets Herakles again, with predictable consequences: The effort it took to pull himself away from Herakles’ eyes could have been measured on the scale devised by...
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We liberate a man
I have found Walter Wink’s brief little book on non-violence a thought-provoking read. He makes it quite clear that non-violence does not imply passive acceptance of an inhumane situation. Here’s an...
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Not obliged to submit
Some further thoughts from Barbara Glasson’s A Spirituality of Survival: Enabling a Response to Trauma and Abuse: Relationships should never be traps; they should hold and not bind. […] abuse is about...
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Giving up control
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two – love and controlling power over the other person – are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving...
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A double bind
Following up a friend’s recommendation, I am currently reading Barbara Glasson’s A Spirituality of Survival: Enabling a Response to Trauma and Abuse, a book that I am finding increasingly insightful,...
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Lovers as artists – and the inner landscape of beauty
Here are some passages from Krista Tippett’s book Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, passages that struck, inspired, challenged me. In connection with the Irish poet and...
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