My wife is on a Zen Buddhist study group e-network recently, and we were chatting about her spiritual journey. She\u2019s impressed with the very fact that these new friends have sought to raise their consciousness; they\u2019ve embarked on a journey that is in itself sufficient. (The Hebrew word for this is \u201cdayenu,\u201d meaning, \u201cthat would have been sufficient.\u201d) Allee said that the simple idea that there are people who want to bring love into the world and want to transcend selfishness, the pitfall of being caught up in the illusion that it\u2019s all about \u201cme.\u201d Already these people in seeking to transcend this temptation are on the side of God. It\u2019s a kind of just flipping the switch. I thought, \u201cGood. Into the blog.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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