Author: David Lowry
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Everyday I have more clarity
Every day there’s more and more clarity in my life. Every day something that I used to believe falls away. Pointless beliefs, useless attitudes, and unnecessary emotions fall away and are replaced by a greater joy. Every day I drop something that has been chewing up bandwidth and taking my mind away from what’s really…
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Words
I love words. I love learning new words. I love speaking. I love reading the written word. I love hearing the spoken word. I love hearing other people speak I love to read books that are little more than one word stacked upon another and another until a wonderful story has been told. I love…
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Half-Lessons are lives half-lived
A full lesson (truth) is one that is understood as fully emotionally as it is intellectually. It is known not only in the mind but the heart. I am convinced that most of us are brim full of what I call “half-lessons” (you may call these half-truths). Among other things, life is an experiential process. When…
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Existence
Dualism is the concept that matter and consciousness are separate. As hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water, so matter and consciousness combine to form existence–or life. At some point when the body dies, the conscious portion is split away while the body decomposes to a different form of matter. Non-dualism is the notion that…
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My Dear Students
Friends, On this very sad day for our campus, I just wanted to send an email to each of my current and former students. Please forgive me if you receive several copies of this. I am using blackboard to communicate and some of you may have had several classes with me. I just want all…
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Nothing Lasts but the Land
He told me that nothing lasts but the land. “The land boy! That abides long after you and I.” But it doesn’t. One day we and the land will be gone. One day the sun will fade and die And all the stars will go silent as well. And it will be as though none of this…
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Don’t tell me what you believe…
I don’t want to know what you believe. I don’t care what your politics are Whether you believe in God Or if you have religion or not. Please don’t speak of What makes one person good and another evil Or your judgements about Who should love whom or What others should or should not do. Be done with your beliefs…
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Searching versus Existing
No chakras to open, chants to hum, or endless sermons to listen to. No mantras to repeat over and over. No scriptures to memorize or stories to believe, defend, and pointlessly argue about. No clothes to buy, crosses or beads to wear. No creeds to recite or ascended masters to know personally lest we die. No Gods to…
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IT is all there is
Never there was a thought, Only consciousness and ITs awareness. Never there was life or death, Only ITs eternal and timeless presence. Never there was war, peace, famine or plenty, IT has no want, lack or need. Never there was reward or punishment, IT is only experiencing itself, Never there was a past or future, There is only the eternal now,…