All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame without blame and without fear. I am all loved all accepted and all in service to God. In his eyes regardless of what I did or didnt do today I am loved. I am His so I am enough.

Religio as we know harks back to a word re-ligio meaning bond and that is precisely what the anarch rejects. He does not go in for Moses with the Ten Commandments or indeed for any prophets. Nor does he wish to hear anything concerning gods or rumors about them except as a historian - or unless they appear to him. That is when the conflicts begin.So if I state in order to pray I am following an innate instinct that is no weaker than the sexual drive - in fact even stronger. The two are alike insofar as foul things can happen when they are suppressed.

the only unfailing guide Ive ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer man husband father citizen steward or believer is the love burning in my heart. for me prayer is about one thing making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame hot bright beautiful loves flame is so fragile keeping ones love burning and living in accord with that burning this to me is prayer.

No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes somewhere in its heart of hearts is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.

Thats where thinking started where thinking stopped where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that just dreams just play. Shed been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father because God couldnt because she would never escape her need to love him.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God Lord teach us to pray

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination Strange too that no one of them tallies with another

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live we find our escape from its sterile annihilating reality in many dreams in religion passion art.

If desire causes suffering it may be because we do not desire wisely or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation why not get better at fulfilling desire Salvation is for the feeble thats what I think. I dont want salvation I want life all of life the miserable as well as the superb. If the gods would tax ecstasy then I shall pay however I shall protest their taxes at each opportunity and if Woden or Shiva or Buddha or that Christian fellow--whats his name--cannot respect that then Ill accept their wrath. At least I will have tasted the banquet that they have spread before me on this rich round planet rather than recoiling from it like a toothless bunny. I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us to tempt us to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.

Imagine theres no countriesIt isnt hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that Im a dreamerBut Im not the only oneI hope someday youll join usAnd the world will be as one