The French Revolution occurred because the royal class were having feasts, living in luxury, and getting the best available medical care while the peasants were starving, dying of curable illnesses and living in shacks. We don't have a royal class here but we certainly have the equivalent. Corporate executives, sports stars and celebrities getting many millions a year while the average person who has payed into social security for decades is being told it will be cut to save more money to give to the rich. While the wealthy stay in a $3000 dollar a night hotel suite, many are struggling to pay the mortgage on a house now valued at 60% what they paid for it. When the CEO's son graduates, he gets a vice president job automatically, while other who borrowed thousands to go to college, now can't find a job. And people wonder why the wall street protests are happening now. Let's just hope it doesn't turn as violent as the French Revolution did before our version of royalty start to take notice and listen.

    A tricky thing about being perfect: if you think you have achieved it, you are actually far from it.

    The news media is saying that Anwar Al-Awlaki was a “spiritual advisor” to some of the 9/11 terrorists. That is not true. He was a terrorism advisor which has absolutely nothing to do with being spiritual.

“There is a root or a depth in thee, from whence all these facilities come forth as lines from a centre, or as branches from the body of a tree. This depth is called the centre, the fund, or bottom of the soul. This depth is the unity, the Eternity, I had almost said the infinity of thy soul, for it is so infinite that nothing can satisfy it, or give it any rest, but the infinity of God.” ~William Law