http://mdberry.com Unity & the M.O.L. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://mdberry.com/2009/the-eternal-the-seasons-timelessness http://mdberry.com/2009/the-eternal-the-seasons-timelessness#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:00:28 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=272
The Seasons All things have their season, their time, in the course of a life lived and each season we pass through has its own climate we must deal with. When we are young, we learn to weather the storms of one season and endure the calm of others. As we gain experience, we learn [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/the-eternal-the-seasons-timelessness/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/the-eternal http://mdberry.com/2009/the-eternal#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:00:24 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=268
The eternal is both point / event and the extent of all experience. It is the breath or tide of the Universe. It both divides and contains. It is both rhythm, which is the flow of movement in time and synchronous, which is all existence happening at the same time. There are no separate moments [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/the-eternal/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/compassion-beyond-ourselves http://mdberry.com/2009/compassion-beyond-ourselves#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:00:54 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=154
Beyond Ourselves Compassion remembers so that mistakes and pains will hopefully not be repeated. However, the Universe also recognizes that pain is a very effective teacher in the instruction of compassion, since that is how we learn to feel the pain and difficulties of others. With true compassion, we are driven to envision a world as it [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/compassion-beyond-ourselves/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/compassion http://mdberry.com/2009/compassion#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:00:49 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=151
Compassion is literally to feel the suffering of others. This prevents doing harm and makes it a personal imperative to alleviate it.  It teaches and instructs us in lessons we might not otherwise have ever even contemplated. It makes us grow beyond our own walls and borders, to expand into something grander than we were [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/compassion/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/the-infinite-coming-back-to-wholeness http://mdberry.com/2009/the-infinite-coming-back-to-wholeness#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:43:45 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=134
Just as we have the ability to name things into smaller and smaller parts, we have the power to name things in larger and larger terms. If we name something that encompasses its entirety, then we give back completeness, releasing enough of it back to a probable state that it can become itself again, whilst [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/the-infinite-coming-back-to-wholeness/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/love-balance-inversion-gift-tool http://mdberry.com/2009/love-balance-inversion-gift-tool#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:38:51 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=131
Love also seeks balance - it gives itself with the expectation of return because it understands its own worth. This balance is not the an equalling of the scales, as it were; it is about "fit" - as only one puzzle piece truly fits to another, or as a knife handle is necessary to the blade to be effective.]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/love-balance-inversion-gift-tool/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/the-journey-of-unity http://mdberry.com/2009/the-journey-of-unity#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:00:24 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=81
This journey is achieved via the routes of either pain or pleasure. Since pain is the longer lasting teacher, the seeker finds this is the usual path: That which is painful becomes hardwired so that we do not repeat the same mistake, although we often do. Repetition occurs because when the pain is too profound, [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/the-journey-of-unity/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/complexity-in-wholeness http://mdberry.com/2009/complexity-in-wholeness#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:56:01 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=77
As something ages, it gains experience. In gaining experience, it gains complexity. Complexity allows and creates diversity, but it also embraces itself as whole. When something is whole, it becomes its own welfare, since there is no division within. This is like the branching complexity of roots growing ever deeper into soil for their nourishment. [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/complexity-in-wholeness/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/unity http://mdberry.com/2009/unity#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:05:17 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=45
Unity is the point where all things are one. Where all things are one, there is paradox without contradiction: It is emptiness that holds the fullness of the universe. It is singular by nature with all differentiation inherent. No isolation is possible here, only that which is paid attention to. There are no constructs in [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/unity/feed 0 http://mdberry.com/2009/love-and-value http://mdberry.com/2009/love-and-value#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:01:12 +0000 M.D.Berry http://mdberry.com/?p=38
Love defines value: We are unable to love unless we value ourselves and we only truly value that which we love and this is why we must choose carefully what we are going to love. One such primary choice is between the living world and constructs of value. For example, do we choose the land [...]]]> http://mdberry.com/2009/love-and-value/feed 0