Being Human

Becoming a "good" person is a process. You invite the Lord into your life and trying to live according to His will instead of your own selfish will.

To say that each of us has an internal “self” and an external “self” is not particularly revolutionary. We all have a natural sense that our thoughts and feelings are “inside” us and our bodies and actions are on the “outside” of us.

It's a busy day at the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Martha's working hard, feeding guests, and Mary is sitting and listening to Jesus. Martha asks Jesus to tell Mary to help. He doesn't; instead reproving her gently. It doesn't seem fair, on the face of it. But here's what's going on in the internal sense of the story...

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”

Imagine a society where everyone is always "looking out for #1".

This was the guiding philosophy of the great man, and great Chicago Bears running back, Gale Sayers.

Sometimes, when someone doesn't live up to their professed standards, we think "there's another hypocrite." Is that fair? The answer is: It depends.

The "as-of-self" is a key doctrinal concept in New Christian theology.

Swedenborg uses the term, "to appropriate", in a distinctive way.

Evil is the inversion of good. It develops when we receive life from the Lord, as all created beings do, and turn it primarily towards ourselves, making our self the main focus. In the process of doing this, we engender fear, hatred and the love of dominating others.

A person is [in effect] worshiping all the time if love and charity abide in him.