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          Laozi: 'When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be' 

When fascism came to America it came clutching a bible and waving the flag. On January 20, 2025.

Israel in the present time is a state engaging in state terrorism against the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Zionist genocide of Palestinians is ungodly, un-Christian, and in every way horrific  evil.

For Evangelical Christians, Christian Nationalists and MAGA who apparently know nothing of Jesus of Nazareth's position on wealth: Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

"All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances. Milarepa

"What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. The Buddha

"Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. The Buddha

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." The Buddha

“Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.”   Guru Nanak