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Christina Swenson O'Hara's avatar

Such wonderful lessons from Moses: embracing the shadow and learning to love the whole self, transformation comes gradually, refusing to judge the other, and I love that final poem from Steve Garnaas-Holmes! It definitely made it into my sermon last week!

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Daniel Rogers's avatar

It’s interesting to me how common the pattern is of replacing some vice with prayer and meditation only to find out that one is approaching prayer and meditation in the same way! I think it was Thomas Keating who had to eat ice cream while everyone else fasted because he was trying to “fast everyone under the table.”

Also, there’s one (maybe two) typos in this paragraph: “This occurred when a guy from whom Moses stole some sheep hired thugs to *thief down. This drove Moses deeper into the desert than he’d ever been. After several days running, *thirty, hungry, cold, verging on collapse...”

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