Burden of Memory

RCC_5948-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The camera relieves us of the burden of memory ...

     records in order to forget.

       John Berger

Enlightenment

RIC_1880 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Jack Kornfield

Technologies

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Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformation of consciousness, and never more so than when they affect the word.

Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy

Where we came from

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Unless we understand and cultivate what each of us had inherited from wherever we came from, we could not really give the world back everything it needed to find in us.

Joan Chittister

God in All Things

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The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw – and knew I saw – all things in God and God in all things.

Mechtild of Magdeburg