This is a collection of the inspirational passages I’ve posted on my homepage. Many of these were chosen from Love Without End: Jesus Speaks by Glenda Green using my favorite method: by opening a page at random. Page numbers for Love Without End are for the Expanded World Edition published in 2009 by Spiritis Publishing, Sedona, AZ.
The rest come from here and there, and a few are my own.
Focus and Resolve
Stop whining! Sometimes life is hard. Rather than worry or despair, rather than all the ways we resist our trials, can we have the self-respect, the respect for others to recognize Divine Order within our current challenges? Can we instead of protesting, cultivate composure and patience as we turn to face our difficulties with focus and resolve?
Respect, a Dimension of Intelligence
“The fourth dimension of intelligence within the heart is Respect. It begins with respect for God, respect for yourself, respect for your brothers, and for all life forms. Respect is a point of honor, although it is a great deal more than that. Though we are one in spirit, each being is unique in love, purpose, and life. Unique qualities belong to each person and endow him with abilities, freedoms, and responsibilities that may not be present for another. Each person, and every aspect of life, is irreplaceable. What you do not bring to the earth, no one else will. Respect begins with knowing that you and your Creator have a covenant, and in that covenant are all the answers and resources you need to make your life work. Then you extend that right to others. This ultimately leads to respect for Divine Order, which is the highest intelligence.
(Love Without End, 160)
In thinking about the value of quiet unhurried time in nature, “You have to spend time with the wind and the sky. You need to find your place in time and eternity and nourish yourself with that regularly. Feeding your mind the news, social media, other peoples’ comings and goings but neglecting quiet unhurried time in nature will keep you hungry, craving pleasure and control, prone to anxiety, splitting, vanity, neurosis. Modern psychology has not come to grips with the complexity and beauty of the human psyche, but our ancient being knows the wind and the stars and it’s a place to start for righting what troubles us.”
Katy Morikawa
“There would be no need for love if perfection were possible.”
“Love brings certainty to life, and where your love is clear and unpolluted with regrets or false desires, you will have the confidence to live your life with passion. When you are certain of your love, there will be fuel for passion.”
Glenda Green, Love Without End, p. 159.
Do you remember Cricket, the Literary Magazine for Children?
The tiny cartoon strips that decorated the edges of the pages always had something clever to say, like this commentary on fame.
You are the richness of the universe, the depth and completion of it all.
“Only the heart’s simplicity can comprehend infinity and connect heaven and earth in a meaningful way. From a center of equilibrium, much like the hub of a wheel, the heart unfolds its awareness in seven concentric rings of understanding. Each succeeding dimension of intelligence builds upon and completes the one or ones before”–Unity, Love, Life, Respect, Honesty, Justice, and Kindness. (157-165, Love Without End)
As we prepare for Uranus’ transit through Gemini (July – November 2025, April 2026 – August 2032, December 2032 – May 2033), I am thinking about Universal Rights. Will we confront intelligent AI beings upon whose rights we’ll have to agree? Non-human, exosolar intelligence with whom we’ll need to negotiate? Other things to challenge and emancipate us through the power of word, for which Uranus in Gemini is known. The United States of America, known at the time of the discovery of Uranus as the “Uranus Nation,” has Uranus at 9 Gemini in the birthchart for the U. S. Declaration of Independence: July 4, 1776.
“Self-awareness is the ingnition that sparks your ability to be a secondary source of infinity.” “You are indispensable to the continuing expansion of infinity. You are the extra dimension! The heart is your gateway to performing in this extra dimension. It is the beginning of your higher intelligence.” (154-155, Love Without End)
The Fourth Dimension of Intelligence from Love Without End
“The fourth dimension of intelligence within the heart is Respect. It begins with respect for God, respect for yourself, respect for your brothers, and for all life forms. Respect is a point of honor, although it is a great deal more than that. Though we are one in spirit, each being is unique in love, purpose, and life. Unique qualities belong to each person and endow him with abilities, freedoms, and responsibilities that may not be present for another. Each person, and every aspect of life, is irreplaceable. What you do not bring to the earth, no one else will. Respect begins with knowing that you and your Creator have a covenant, and in that covenant are all the answers and resources you need to make your life work. Then you extend that right to others. This ultimately leads to respect for Divine Order, which is the highest intelligence.
Knowing this will give you strength to release your worries. Most of what you worry about never happens. A certain part of your trials must be accepted. The remaining part that you might wish to change will require focus and resolve, which you will not possess if you spend all of your time worrying. Composure comes from respect for Divine Order. Don’t complain, for that is direspect. Don’t wallow in self-pity, for that is disrespect of self. Why should a child of God feel sorry for himself? That is the essence of denial. And in so doing, do you see how disempowerment occurs in your life?
Through respect for Divine Order, patience is cultivated. This brings knowledge of proper timing. In that is great intelligence. Often other issues and other needs have to be worked out before your plans can unfold, before your place can be set at the table. By respecting all things, and most especially Divine Order, you will attain peace and patience. Through this, you will be directed to the most efficient use of your life, so that you can experience self-respect to the fullest. The greatest act of self-respect is to honor the Sacred Heart as the seat of your covenant with God and your access to higher intelligence.” (Love Without End, 160)
The idea that even if humanity doesn’t survive its own experiment, there is hope: “Don’t worry Dad. We might not figure it out, but Earth will,” Robin said.
Richard Powers, Bewilderment
Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment. And we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.
Richard Powers, Bewilderment
To comprehend an archetypal coherence is to grasp the universe, is to perform the everday miracle happening at the heart of a star.
Katy Morikawa
The seventh dimension of intelligence is kindness.
“Kindness is the right use of will. Kindness is GOOD WILL–expressed as caring, helping, refraining from hurtful actions, sharing, making life work, and consideration of others. Kindess is strength in action. The confidence that comes from showing kindness is a masterful influence over any situation.” (Love Without End, 165-167)
“You’re the wind. You’re the stars. You are all endless things.” It was a poem she liked. He liked it too, because when she said it, he believed her.
Brandon Sanderson, The Lost Metal
Did you know that Jack the Ripper was caught by London police?
According to London Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Robert Anderson’s memoirs, The Lighter Side of My Official Life, they identified a suspect, but their eyewitness refused to testify against him. Police didn’t arrest the suspect, lacking the forensic evidence to convict him. But they also withheld his identity from the public, watched him night and day, and then marched him off to a series of asylums for the mentally insane.
No more canonical murders occurred after that, according to Chief Inspector Donald Swanson who led the Ripper investigation, and named their suspect Kosminski in margin notes written in his copy of Anderson’s memoirs. Although Anderson writes that he was “tempted to disclose the identity of the murderer,” he decided “no public benefit would result from such a course,” and in all spent only six pages of his nearly 300 page memoir on the “Whitechapel Murders.” He thought the press frenzy and public fear had been overblown hysteria.
But Anderson claimed the murderer’s identity was “definitely ascertained,” and named “the criminal a Polish Jew.” The implication is that the London police took the fall for failing to catch Jack the Ripper, the world’s first-known and most famous serial killer, to prevent violent public retribution against the city’s Jewish population. In addition to its respectable Jewish middle-class population, London was teeming with recent Jewish refugees from Eastern European pogroms, and ethnic tensions were high among the city’s poorest in Whitechapel and the surrounding neighborhoods where these refugees lived.
The Barker Llewelyn novel, Anatomy of Evil, is a fun fictional telling of solving the case. I’m enjoying the whole series!
Like stones in a bag, the monks polish each other.
– Zen proverb
When asked if she were Baba Jaga in The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden, the old woman laughed and said, “Near enough I suppose. This witch and that were woven into a single fairy tale. Perhaps I am one of the witches.” It’s a nice way to think about archetypes too, and about the myths and people that inspire us.
“There is a matrix of potential that precedes all energy mass. Its particle units are utterly generic in nature, and are the basic irreducible components of physical existence.” He called them “adamantine particles.” (Love Without End, 42)
“Love is my shepherd, I shall not want.
Love makes me to lie down in green pastures.
Love leads me beside the still waters.
Love restores my soul.
Though I may walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
For my rod and my staff is Love.
Love prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies,
And fills my cup to overflowing,
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life
And I shall dwell in the house of Love forever.” (Love Without End, 170)
“Do not view hardship as punishment, but rather as inclusion. This was the great lesson of Job, a wealthy man who lived in ancient Israel. He enjoyed the favor of good fortune and rich blessing until a series of reversals changed his life for the worst. Job tried to interpret his hardship as punishment, yet that made no sense. He tried to interpret the hardship as something he had to work through, and that changed nothing. He tried to interpret it as something he would have to receive as a lesson. Still nothing changed. He tried penance and supplication to God in the form of prayer, sacrifice and worhsip. Nothing in the way of cause and effect brought satisfaction, however, or any results. […] Finally Job surrendered, accepting the hardship as his new lot in life. At last he understood that his charter within the brotherhood of man was to accept the bad with the good. By the grace of God he was then restored to his original wealth and his original blessing.” (Love Without End, 105)
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth? …when the morning stars sang together, when all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Job 38:4-7
“The fourth dimension of intelligence within the heart is Respect. It begins with respect for God, respect for yourself, respect for your brothers, and for all life forms. Respect is a point of honor, although it is a great deal more than that. Though we are one in spirit, each being is unique in love, purpose, and life. Unique qualities belong to each person and endow him with abilities, freedoms, and responsibilities that may not be present for another. Each person, and every aspect of life, is irreplaceable. What you do not bring to the earth, no one else will. Respect begins with knowing that you and your Creator have a covenant, and in that covenant are all the answers and resources you need to make your life work. Then you extend that right to others. This ultimately leads to respect for Divine Order, which is the highest intelligence.
Knowing this will give you strength to release your worries. Most of what you worry about never happens. A certain part of your trials must be accepted. The remaining part that you might wish to change will require focus and resolve, which you will not possess if you spend all of your time worrying. Composure comes from respect for Divine Order. Don’t complain, for that is direspect. Don’t wallow in self-pity, for that is disrespect of self. Why should a child of God feel sorry for himself? That is the essence of denial. And in so doing, do you see how disempowerment occurs in your life?
Through respect for Divine Order, patience is cultivated. This brings knowledge of proper timing. In that is great intelligence. Often other issues and other needs have to be worked out before your plans can unfold, before your place can be set at the table. By respecting all things, and most especially Divine Order, you will attain peace and patience. Through this, you will be directed to the most efficient use of your life, so that you can experience self-respect to the fullest. The greatest act of self-respect is to honor the Sacred Heart as the seat of your covenant with God and your access to higher intelligence.” (Love Without End, 160)
