October 2010
5 posts
Religious Ignorance Hurts
A study from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life shows that non-believers in the US are more knowledgeable about religion than their religious and spiritual counter-parts. Many of the Americans polled did not know that it is legal for teachers in the US to use the Bible as an example of a literary text while they were aware that teachers are not allowed to lead classes in prayer. The article...
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
– Rumi
“Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead...”
– Gabrielle Zevin
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Che cos'e'?
It’s hard to quantify with words what I’ve experienced here and what I continue to experience. Time passes as if I’m in a dream, where 10 minutes of reality is an hour of dream time. Surreal, yet astonishingly realistic, this Italian life I lead terrifies and exhilirates me all at once. If this reality exists so close to my other one on this tiny planet, what realities can we...