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		<title>Rumi: Say I Am You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t revere God otherwise than wholly, because otherwise, I would revere an illusion.
Here&#8217;s Rumi, &#8220;Say I Am You&#8221;:

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		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/852/</link>
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		<title>The World Is Too Much With Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/the-world-is-too-much-with-us/</link>
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		<title>Sermon at Benares</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On seeing their old teacher approach, the five bhikkus agreed among themselves not to salute him, nor to address him as a master, but by his name only. &#8220;For,&#8221; so they said, &#8220;he has broken his vow and has abandoned holiness. He is no bhikkhu, but Gotama, and Gotama has become a man who lives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/sermon-at-benares/</link>
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		<title>Contingency and election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All waters are brooded over by Nârâyana, but every kind of water is not fit for drink. Similarly, though it is true that the Almighty dwells in every place, yet every place is not fit to be visited by man. As one kind of water may be used for washing our feet, another may serve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/contingency/</link>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One&#8221; by Mark Anderson</title>
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&#8220;Modernity is hubris; decadence is its Nemesis.&#8221;
-Mark Anderson

With his book &#8220;Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One&#8221; philosophy professor Mark Anderson gives a concise and powerful diagnosis of the problem of modernity and points towards a possible remedy within the framework of Platonic philosophy.  In just over 100 pages he moves from identifying the symptoms of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/book-review-pure-modernity-philosophy-and-the-one-by-mark-anderson/</link>
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		<title>Virtue and Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is more important, virtuous behavior or faith in God?
This question can be asked when one comes across religious individuals who act in an un-virtuous manner.  The question is answered by realizing that true faith in God is incompatible with un-virtuous behavior.  Virtuous behavior is certainly possible for those who lack faith in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/virtue-and-faith/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Father Thomas Keating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time we introduce you Father Thomas Keating, a catholic Trappist monk who has dedicated his life to the study of contemplation not only in  Christianity, but also in the world&#8217;s most important religious traditions.
In this video, Father Thomas Keating discusses the experience of oneness and perpetuity of God through the dynamism of His temporal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/introducing-father-thomas-keating/</link>
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		<title>Christian Mythology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Christian perspective, more than any other places its emphasis on historical events.  We must firstly point out that the actuality of these events is not in question, given that they constitute a revelation and are therefore ontologically evident.  What is more significant, however, is the fact that these events are only evident [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/christian-mythology/</link>
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		<title>Reason and Transcendence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditionalists frequently criticize the current state of Western intellectual life and culture, arguing that our civilization lacks a genuine spiritual dimension. This fact is painfully obvious to many, including more moderate conservatives. But we can occasionally run into some difficulty when explaining that we believe this decline to have begun during the Renaissance. For many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/reason-and-transcendence/</link>
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		<title>Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Knowledge does not come to us in details,
but in flashes of light from heaven.
-Henry David Thoreau.*  


Knowledge is generally defined, at last nowadays, as facts integrated by the mental faculty.  True knowledge is in fact a total integration of Truth into the whole being, so it is not only the mental faculty but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.forestpoetry.com/2010/knowledge/</link>
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