--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > It's disheartening, dude. Like you, I've sat down > and had long conversations with "common folk," > many of whom were illegal immigrants to the US or > France. During my lifetime I have had conversations > with bums, with whores and pimps, with a murderer > (who was a TMer, by the way), with atheists and > with total materialists. Not ONE of them was any > less "spiritual" than any of the "spiritual" people > I've met in over 40 years of spiritual seeking. And > to be honest, most of them were nicer people than > the people I know who consider themselves spiritual.
Are you, do you think, a nicer person than the people you know who consider themselves spiritual, Barry? <snip> > Wasn't it Jesus who said something about a man > being measured by the way he treats "the least > among us?" He also said, "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled." I'm not sure you'd want to be measured by how you treat people, actually.
