Our religion calls us to hold truth in our hearts and proclaim it with strength. We do this best in realization, that different eyes ever view the world in different ways. It therefore follows that while truth-speaking may be the soul of virtue, humble listening is also the soul of wisdom. Neither virtue nor wisdom can long survive without food or shelter. Let them reside together, in a house constructed of humility, respect, and love.
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The battle may go to the strong, the race may go to the swift. Yet we all breathe the same air, our bodies are nurtured by the same chemicals. Our successes and failures are alike, of common stuff, for both arise from our common humanity. Let us go forward in compassion as well as celebration.
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Whether we speak of an individual or of society as a whole, perfection is not in us. We have no command of the absolute. What we do have, is the power to do what has not yet been done, to be what has not yet been. Together, germinating in mutuality, we are the seeds of the future.
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You could have golden treasure buried beneath your feet and walk across it again and again, yet never dream it was there. This is because we read our senses in terms of what we expect rather than what is possible. In precisely this way we live in the City of the Divine, yet more often than not, it’s precious vistas are wilderness to us, veiled behind desire, fear, and expectation.
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The blazing stars, the eyes of lovers, the smiles of children, melodies that fill the soul. Creatures too small even to see, particles knowable only through calculation. Miracles range before us. They sing the mystery at the core of the plainest things. May our eyes be wide and our vision clear, to absorb the simplicity of the wonderful.
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As the Universalists used to say:
‘May words laid in our ears today,
Through Grace, become the fruitful seeds
Of kinder thoughts and greater deeds.’
(Inspired by a 1917 Universalist Hymnal. Better quoted than forgotten.)
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