One of my Favorite Christians

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbaric idea based on a primitive concept of God that must be dismissed.

- Liberal Episcopalian Bishop John Shelby Spong

Songbirds and Roosters

... I'm here
so care for me
laugh with me
while I'm near smile just for a while
I'm here
so die with me
smile with me
while I'm near smile just for a while ...

- Robi Draco Rosa

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze (aka auntie Vida Bohème)

... p to the r to the n to the cess ...

Be a light unto yourself;
betake yourselves to no external refuge.
Hold fast to the Truth.
Look not for refuge to anyones besides yourselves.

- Buddha, shortly before dying

“Perhaps I myself am the enemy who must be loved.”

Carl Jung

A Contemplative Science

What the world most needs at this moment is a means of convincing human beings to embrace the whole of the species as their moral community. For this we need to develop an utterly nonsectarian way of talking about the full spectrum of human experience and human aspiration. We need a discourse on ethics and spirituality that is every bit as unconstrained by dogma and cultural prejudice as the discourse of science is. What we need, in fact, is a contemplative science, a modern approach to exploring the furthest reaches of psychological well-being.

- Sam Harris

I fight authority
Authority always wins

- John Cougar Mellencamp