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#21 User is offline   JosephM

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Posted 26 September 2007 - 08:17 PM

View PostCynthia, on Sep 25 2007, 08:25 AM, said:

More of a karmic debt? Or actually credit?? :rolleyes:

That does seem true - reap what you sow, what goes around, comes around, etc! It's hard to break the idea of payback in some form. Some "reason" to do the right thing whether it is immediate or after death. I intellectually believe in doing the right thing regardless, but the idea of some form of payback is powerful.

What do you think???

Of course, sometimes, the phrase, "no good deed goes unpunished" seems to hold true too!


Hi Cynthia,

Yes it seems so.....

Perhaps, in a spiritual sense the give and receive is connected as one and the same. It seems to me the reaping is in fact created at the time of the sowing or receiving created in the same instant as the giving yet it appears or manifests in our conceptual concept of time and therefor is sometimes difficult to connect intellectually. Nevertheless, it seems to me karma is embodied as an innate fuction of mind and manifests as the physical body/mind in this existence.

Just a thought to consider...

Love and Peace,
JM
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 10:46 AM

JM - I agree!

I wish that I could remember the law of karma as well as the law of gravity. I NEVER just walk off a roof!! :P
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Posted 29 November 2007 - 03:33 AM

View Postbobve2, on Sep 23 2007, 10:15 AM, said:

Would you say "In the Beginning ... creativity" would be the best of Gordon Kaufmans books to start with or one of the others. thanks Bob ve
Thanks, I agree.
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Posted 22 February 2008 - 11:04 AM

View PostCynthia, on Sep 19 2007, 10:05 PM, said:

Great book! My favorite of his until The Last Week with JD Crossan. It's been quite a while since I read it, so start off some thoughts and I'll pull it off the bookshelf for discussion.

Great idea!



I have that book! Couldn't believe that the Public Library actually carried it! I've not read the whole thing but bits and pieces of it. I will eventually read it all. I"ve got several books going at this point...
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