If you love someone, you may suffer with them, but you will never suffer for them.
The promise/potential of an intimate relationship is that we may learn to value our differences and thus go beyond our limited perception and understanding.
If you believe that you understand someone completely, you are in error. We cannot understand ourselves completely, let along understand someone else completely.
No two people can experience the same situation in the same way.
When we differ with each other respectfully, we have the potential to understand/perceive more completely/accurately than we are capable of by ourselves.
As Humans: meaning is found not in owning things, but in maintaining relationships.
As Humans: we have a need to
make sense and order out of the world of experience
the people and things outside
the thoughts, feelings and sensations inside
When you make music with other people you bring yourself in tune with them. You become more than just yourself. You become part of something greater than the sum of its parts.
When we can respectfully explore and discuss our beliefs and understandings of scripture there is the potential that we may be led by the Holy Spirit in that process.
My life has been a quest for wisdom and the direct experience of God. (Occassionally successful)
– Lewis O. Moon February 2006
True power is power not to change, but to accept.
– Sparrowhawk in The Furthest Shore by Ursela K. LeGuinn
My God’s the pattern of the Universe, the harmony that transcends all that man can comprehend and learn.
– Unknown