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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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November 10th, 2008
What is love?”
“The total absence of fear,” said the Master.
“What is it we fear?”
“Love,” said the Master. (Anthony de Mello)
Do you all agree? Is Love is the opposite of fear?
Dozens of blogs and articles online say this. Personally I don’t think it’s that simple though. I think various emotions can exist inside us at the [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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November 3rd, 2008
My post about My disillusionment with Jiddu Krishnamurti has gotten quite a lot of comments. ‘Rinzai’ said the other day:
Whether beginners are practicing virtues or not is their problem not yours. Believe in no teachers, trust your own logic, your own experiences, make your own mistakes, learn and grow. Have a courageous attitude and be [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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October 15th, 2008
Whether it’s illness, unemployment or some other reason – sometimes life forces us to sit still, think things through, relax – because there is just no other alternative.
I don’t think anyone is ever grateful for unemployment or disease, but sometimes we can be grateful for their side effects: a chance to reevaluate life.
One of the [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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September 6th, 2008
I met Mimi as one of the lensmasters at squidoo, which is one of the places online where I’m also active. She’s interviewed here because she was the only one who had an actual question suggestion for my series of interviews on this new blog of mine.
Do you believe in God, and if so what’s [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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September 3rd, 2008
My spiritual newsletter Lucifer7 is out again. This time it includes (like all future issues of Lucifer7 will) a list of blog posts I did on here in the last month.
For those of you who wonder what the heck I’m doing naming a newsletter after the devil, read Blavatsky’s reasoning when she named HER magazine [...]
