Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*When you feel the urge to log-on “just to chat” with a friend, choose instead to turn off
your computer and actually go meet with a Friend face-to-face.
“In real life, social networks aren’t about Web sites. They’re about face-to-face
experiences.” ~ inspired by Mike DeLorenzo
Remember, my Friends, THIS WILL NOT BE EASY. The ego is especially fond of
social media — an addiction that encourages us to refuse to act with Courage; an
addiction that persuades us to forgo opening up to others in favor of hiding behind the
“safety” of a cold computer screen. Peace cannot be found this way. Real, deep-seated
Peace is knowing that, even when walking in the deepest of deserts or sitting on the
highest of mountaintops, WE ARE NEVER ALONE – and then acting accordingly.
“When we are alone on a night of scintillating starlight;
when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn
descending on a grove of junipers to rest; when we see
children in a moment when they are really children;
when we know Love in our own hearts; or when, like the
Japanese poet Basho said, we hear an old frog land in a
quiet pond with a solitary splash — At such times the
awakening, … the “newness” … the emptiness … the
purity of vision … the glory of The Divine that makes
itself so evident, all of these provide a glistening glimpse
of the perfection in the Cosmic Dance of which we are
all a part.” ~ inspired by Thomas Merton
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