Tag: thoughts
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Ritual
Ritual is a tool we humans use to reorder our minds. We use it all the time – it’s a pretty basic tool. Ritual is a learning and teaching tool employed from small kid time forward. We use it so often, we don’t always recognized it for such, and usually we don’t know how it…
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On spirit guides …
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 I started as a Protestant Christian and am pretty well versed in the Bible and history. I became a Quaker in college – about 50 years ago. I was still Christian but no longer Protestant. Quakers generally do not have creeds or dogmas or required beliefs. We…
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On Faith
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 Faith is the strength of my conviction that my understanding of All That Is is correct, that the Universe exists and continues from day to day in accordance with some set of rules that, if known, would – or, at least, could – make sense, and all that is…
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Story from an office wall, ca. 1978
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 If you are unhappy … Once upon a time, there was a non-conforming sparrow that decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started to fly south. In a short time, ice began to form on his…
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On prayerbooks …
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 Reflections and memories Sometime in my 6-to-8-years-old timeframe, or at most a year later, I was drawn in envy to the missals and other holy books carried by some other girls of my acquaintance — possibly the same ones who had those mysterious (and forbidden to me)…
