Posted in freedom, global change, judaism, justice, mysticism, peace, religion, social justice, spirituality, torah, transformation, tagged capacity, change, choice, existence, healing, holiness, humans, identity, inner change, judaism, memory, new age, new year, outer change, peace, purpose, responsibility, rosh hashanah, sabbath, seed, spirit, spiritual transformation, spirituality, tashlich, time, torah, transformation, world to come, yom hazikaron on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got this beach, and the Pacific Ocean, all to myself. I’ve just finished Tashlich, casting my sins into the living waters. As I was tossing tiny bits of my organic, sunflower bread failings into the depths, a family of dolphins came to dance in the waves before me, bearing witness and reminding me, as [...]
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Posted in poetry, religion, tagged bed, books, poetry, sex on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I had a love affair
with a book
today
the two of us
lay together
in bed for ages
I
for decorum
cast a robe across my frame
though this modesty
soon proved showy
and lame
spine arched
covers folded back
she spread her pages
and I, sinner that I am
could not look
away
peaceful sabbath,
jonathan
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Posted in economic justice, environment, freedom, global change, justice, mysticism, peace, politics, poverty, social justice, spirituality, transformation, tagged capacity, challenges, change, earth, freedom, heal, healing, human, humanity, hunger, ideas, inner change, meaning, mysticism, peace, poverty, purpose, scarcity, social change, solutions, spirit, spiritual transformation, spirituality, transformation, violence on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The challenges we face are human challenges.
There is no real scarcity in the world, only a dreamt scarcity—and we are the dreamers; there is no true need for violence, only an invented need—and we, the inventors; no cause to pillage and pollute the earth, only a blindness—and we, the blind.
The solutions to these challenges are [...]
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