#fire sermon

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Recalling Buddha’s Fire Sermon: “Bhikkhus, all is burning … burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of aversion, with the fire of delusion.” We are seeing burning in all quarters.

(Joan Halifax)

[theboywhoreadsbooks]

What I read in August ✨

[abibliophile-amongtheworks]

“I don’t know how to make outstanding captions.” -said by me but probably other people as well

[shutterandsentence]

"The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed." --T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land III, Fire Sermon.

Photo: Wisconsin River, Castle Rock, Wisconsin

[slashdementia7734]

[lilianeruyters]

Jamie Quatro || Fire Sermon

An almost philosophical novel about the relationships of one woman with her husband, her lover and God. One of those novels you should read a second time in order to get even better what writer Quatro is sharing with you. #Fire Sermon #JamieQuatro

Sometimes you forget about a book. It is left standing on your bookshelf, gathering dust. Fire Sermon was one of those. There always was another book that just had to be read first. Turns out I denied myself a beautiful novel for far too long. Fire Sermon kind of resembles 200 pages of contemplation by main character Maggie on the three most important relationships in her life: with her husband…

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[mauveandrosysky]

You seem—how to put this—open to ways of thinking that move beyond personal ethics. Our collective moral compass far exceeds the personal. Evangelicals go around saying Christianity’s about a personal relationship with Jesus, but they don’t talk about rebuilding the ruins of the world, about getting politically active. An entire continent dying of AIDS, massacre in Syria and Sudan, reefs dying, global temperatures soaring—and most right-wing Americans are hunkered down trying not to commit any gross moral failings.

Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon

[mauveandrosysky]

Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon