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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Our problem is not that we are born in sin. Our problem is we do not yet know how to achieve being fully human. The function of the Christ is not to rescue the sinners but to empower you and to call you to be more deeply and fully human than you’ve ever realized there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2417&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We cannot figure out everything in the universe or second-guess the Creator. Chaos always precedes order, and the impeccability of divine order allows our dreams to be nurtured and to be born, manifesting in our physical lives. Since we are not being asked to figure everything out, what are we being asked to do? We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2295&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know the enlightened are supposedly not reporting on the &#8220;bad&#8221; news of the world. But I remind myself that this blog was set up with the idea of words awakening: Awakening me, awakening whomever comes along and has a heart for wakefulness. It&#8217;s my way of casting my bread on the water. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2271&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Parody of Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have precious little else to contribute after the miscarriage of justice yesterday in Georgia. Alan Watts reminds me why I feel so alienated from this culture. Filed under: Advocacy, Alan Watts, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Tao Tagged: Alan Watts, Coping, Personal Growth, Tao<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2258&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion&#8217;s Passion&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Door&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared with me from a friend&#8217;s beautiful feast of a blog, Trail of Leaves: &#8220;If I were to be asked what we are, I should answer: ‘We are the door to everything that can be, we are the expectation that no material response can satisfy, no trick with words can deceive. We seek the heights. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2091&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real You</title>
		<link>http://jruthkelly.com/2011/04/23/alan-watts-the-real-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Alan Watts, Life, Nature, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Spirituality Tagged: Alan Watts, Inspiration, Nature, Personal Growth, Spirituality<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=2012&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 14:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear god up there laughing in her sleeve then weeping on bent knees then sweetly giving head to something sublime so brightly rising shine on all we refuse to see. I feel thunder up there down all swelling ‘round a telling us all the place of storming calling rainfall to the ground our only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=1603&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Thousand Yins and Yangs&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jruthkelly.com/2009/09/09/a-thousand-yins-and-yangs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Moore, from his book, Dark Nights of the Soul, says: &#8220;You may get to the point where you realize that if you want happiness, you have to accept profoundly and honestly the sadness that waits at every turn. Every decision for happiness will get you in trouble, and your occasional courageous forays into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=928&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richness Repeating . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;to speak of love&#8230;means to speak of the ultimate and real need in every human being. That this need has been obscured does not mean that it does not exist. To analyze the nature of love is to discover its general absence today and to criticize the social conditions which are responsible for this absence. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jruthkelly.com&amp;blog=6595405&amp;post=808&amp;subd=jruthkelly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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