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>
> on 5/20/06 6:33 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Rick, with all due respect: You didn't need to join up with a
> > hugging guru-ette in order to see all the above accomplished.
The
> > Catholic Church has been doing all of the above for centuries.
> >
> > In fact, one of the reasons I was attracted to the TMO and MMY
was
> > precisely because he wasn't being caught up in all that. It
> > certainly has its place and is important of course but the
concept
> > of that basic source of life being contacted and, naturally, all
> > else being added unto it does have an appeal.
>
> Appeals to me too, and I'm certainly familiar with the concept,
having
> expounded it in thousands of lectures for many years. But did it
pan out, in
> the lives, health, personalities, financial success, etc., of TM
followers
> or even of its founder? To an extent maybe, but not as fully and
perfectly
> as we were taught it should. How come? Maybe because the approach
is
> unbalanced. This verse comes to mind:
>
> 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
>
> If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
> but have not love,
> I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.
>
> And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
> and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
> but have not love, I am nothing.
>
> And if I dole out all my goods, and
> if I deliver my body that I may boast
> but have not love, nothing I am profited.
>
> Love is long suffering,
> love is kind,
> it is not jealous,
> love does not boast,
> it is not inflated.
>
> It is not discourteous,
> it is not selfish,
> it is not irritable,
> it does not enumerate the evil.
> It does not rejoice over the wrong, but rejoices in the truth
>
>
> It covers all things,
> it has faith for all things,
> it hopes in all things,
> it endures in all things.
>
> Love never falls in ruins;
> but whether prophecies, they will be abolished; or
> tongues, they will cease; or
> knowledge, it will be superseded.
>
> For we know in part and we prophecy in part.
>
> But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded.
>
> When I was an infant,
> I spoke as an infant,
> I reckoned as an infant;
>
> when I became [an adult],
> I abolished the things of the infant.
>
> For now we see through a mirror in an enigma, but then face to
face. Now I
> know in part, but then I shall know as also I was fully known.
>
> But now remains
> faith, hope, love,
>
> these three;
>
> but the greatest of these is love.
>
Hey, beautiful response...actually gives me a greater appreciation
of the Bible...
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