Do You Have Nature Deficit Disorder?
I love coming across quotes that make me think about our place in the Cosmos and on this planet. Here are two that I really liked (plus a phrase that the blog author used is the title of mine): If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Andrew Sullivan on The Colbert Nation
My favorite conservative – yes Andrew is a conservative – on The Colbert Nation. Awesome. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Andrew Sullivan www.colbertnation.com

Contemplative Consciousness – The Nondual Way
Father Richard Rohr discusses Integral Spirituality, Christian Contemplative Spirituality, his new book, and non-duality in these series of lectures presented at Boulder Integral. Part One: Part Two: Part Three:

The Names Are Many, The Idea is One
Naked Pastor blogs about it in his post Scrambled Thoughts. Societyvs is having a conversation that pertains to it.  (Hint – Read Paul Tillich. That’s where Armstrong probably got it from.) Bishop Spong

To Know Beauty and Adversity
I was reading (not commenting, as I refuse to pay for the ‘priveledge’) John Shelby Spong’s bulletin board this morning and there is a discussion going on about good and evil. They are discussing whether they exist objectively or subjectively, whether they are useful terms, and so forth. A comment was made that the term evil entered into human vernacular with the concept of the devil. That sent up a red flag fo