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Word Gems
What is a man but the sum of his
thoughts?
What's
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- This site is under construction.
- I hope it to be so for a long time, a
perpetual work in progress offering inspiring quotes, artwork,
excerpts from important books, and some of my own essays.
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Editor's note: check out my
Personal
Statement articles, addressing a variety of
topics; from politics, economics, and education,
to spirituality, the AfterLife, and romantic
soulmate-love...
... so, what's
new?
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7-26-10: Editor's
note: It is my great pleasure to
offer you
a newly-written pair
of Personal Statements, ones
meant to be
received together.
Each time I write, I try to offer something
worthwhile; indeed, prior to commencing almost every article, I
say to myself, "This one is the most important subject, these are
the most important insights." Each time, it seems to
be true... relatively true... until the next time. But, maybe,
this time it's true in an absolute sense. I hope you will feel the same.
Best to you, Wayne P. Becker
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Personal Statement
#62: The Awesome Power of Sacred Directed
Purpose: How to call into Being the deepest desires of your
Soul! Why all seemingly impossible obstacles will eventually bend to
your Sanctified Targeted Intentions; and why Jesus said,
Embrace this God-Life, and no Mountain will dare stand in
your way! It’s as good as done! You cannot be stopped! - click here to access
article
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Personal Statement #63: Love In The AfterLife: Summerland: Where Dreams Come
True, Part II: Long, long shall I rue thee, too deeply
to tell: How You Will Yet Find Wholeness and Healing from the
Devastating Losses Incurred in this World! -
click here to access
article
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7-26-10: Editor's
note:
There are new photos with captions on the
Personal Statements home
page.
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7-10-10: Dr. Werhner von
Braun, German rocket scientist, advisor to the US space
program: Some months before he died, he wrote that
science offers evidence that life continues after physical death:
"Science has found that nothing can disappear
without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is
transformation... Think about that for a moment. Once you
do, your thoughts about life will never be the same... If God
applied this fundamental principle to the most minute and
insignificant parts of His Universe, doesn't it make sense to
assume that He applies it also to the Masterpiece of His creation
- the human soul? I think it does. And everything science has
taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the
continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a
trace."
all that I know of love, I
learned from you;
love's sacred
instruction,
a lesson plan designed just for
me, one that only you could teach;
in mere moments, long ago,
learned... from you!
"take these arms, these lips, I never use them,
fever all through the night;
fever, till you
sizzle, what a lovely way to burn"
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7-1-10: Editor's
note: Nearly ten
years ago, I wrote my first article on the subject of romantic love,
The Perfect Mate.
It still resonates with me. I like it
so much that I decided to repackage it as one of my Personal
Statements, my favorite
collection
of thoughts and ideas. Have a look at it today, after a
gentle revision, and with some new photos. I think you'll
like the most charming and true story, offered long ago to
me by a college-instructor friend, of the Troubadour Queen, Elizabeth II.
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Personal Statement #61: Love In
The AfterLife: The Perfect Mate -
Her eyes and entire visage glow with presence-of-mind
quiet confidence; without this cerebral element she would be just
another pretty face; with it, she is goddess-like. H er keen mind lends to her an aura of princess-like
nobility. She impresses you in a natural way, without trying to
impress - There
is that sense
about her of wanting to rejoice with me! of being so happy just
to see me! that sense, for me, of complete safety, of total
acceptance, of "coming Home," of mysterious familiarity
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While I cherish certain long-ago memories of her, of
stolen glances, studying me, even, with intense longing, she never,
ever flirted with me, always authentic - and in the sacred darkness,
as she receives my wordless midnight confession, absolving me of
my many faults, her tender voice, like the softness of a gentle dove,
a faint whispering tone of solicitous and erotic cooing, soothes my
troubled spirit; and my pain becomes her
own; my tears fall from her eyes; my soul's anguish issues from
the heart lying next to mine... click here
to access article
Herman's Hermits, Silhouettes On The
Shade
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took a walk past
your house, late last night,
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all the shades were
pulled and drawn, way down tight,
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from within the dim
light cast two silhouettes on the shade,
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oh, what a lovely
couple they made!
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put
his arms around your waist, held you tight,
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kisses I could almost taste, in the
night,
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wondered why I'm not the guy whose silhouette's on
the shade,
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I
couldn't hide the tears in my eyes...
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lost control and rang your bell, I was
sore,
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let
me in or else I'll beat down your
door...
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6-21-10: Editor's note: I spoke to
Doreen (P.S. #14) on the phone today, our first conversation
since my return to North Dakota. "I have
been so alone and isolated, I haven't spoken to anyone in many
days," she offers in near-whisper
voice. "I wish I could die, I take pills, but
I don't die." I sigh deeply as I perceive that nothing has
changed for Doreen. "I miss you sooo
much," she continues, but then adds, with a hint of anger,
"Why did you have to move so far away?" I suddenly recall the
many AfterLife testimonies describing the lower astral realms, below Summerland
(P.S. #7), wherein spirit-persons suffer (albeit, temporarily) in self-imposed
bonds of self-pity, anger, and regret;
my friend is already there! And I realize
that Doreen's profession of affection for me is not so much
reflective of anything that I'd offered to her, small kindnesses that they
were, but, rather, a
measure of her extreme neediness. I encourage her to continue with her
art, that portal-of-entry to Joy...
Doreen's artwork
...
and to find opportunity to serve others. Doreen's next
statement shocks me: "I like talking with you because you are like
me! Beneath that exterior of yours, you are suffering, just like me.
I knew this the moment I met you! Some people are upbeat all the
time, in an unreal and judgmental way, but you are not
like that, you have suffered." I now think
of the apostle Paul's words, "Who is weak, and
I am not weak?" (II Cor. 11: 29). And I am taken aback by her
perspicacity. She is quite correct in her assessment. And I am
suddenly plunged into a greater level of understanding regarding how
personal suffering opens, and sensitizes, one's spirit to the hidden
realms of the heart, even those of others (P.S. #36, 40,
49).
"What keeps you from killing
yourself?"
she demands of me. This is a question that
everyone should think about. I respond as if my secret identity has
just been revealed to Lois Lane, and now I simply answer
forthrightly: "The world in which we live is a temporary
one. It is a classroom, a place of learning, but not meant to
last. Many things here are not what they appear to be. There is a
time coming when each person will have that which his or her soul
craves. It might not happen in this life. But it will come. The
universe is made that way... and this will happen, for you,
too!"
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6-1-10:
Editor's note: I've rewritten
paragraphs in Personal Statement
#37
concerning "How Adam Created
Woman"; also, Jagger's, "God
Gave Me Everything I Want,"
as it relates to that unfoldment of
romantic Troubadour-Love; how only she can teach him that singular
lesson of Life, the meaning of Wholeness and Completeness, the
meaning of One Person... the very meaning of
God!
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5-24-10: Editor's
note: The apostle Paul
speaks of Unenlightened Physical
Love in terms not addressed elsewhere. He asserts,
while all impropriety is harmful,
sexual sin will damage one's Deepest Self,
in a way that other missteps cannot:
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"There is more to sex than mere
skin-on-skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As
written in Genesis, The Two shall become One. We
must not pursue the kind of sex that leaves us
lost and
more lonely than ever; the kind of sex that can never become
One."
(I Corinthians 6,
The Message)
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I have added discussion regarding Paul's words, plus
some new paragraphs, to
Personal
Statement
#37, The
Troubadour And The Wedding Song,
concerning how John and Mary, the hapless couple misled by The Nice Young Man, damage each
other
relative to St.
Paul's instructive,
but cryptic, warning... well, that's
why you have me to explain it
to you.
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5-24-10: Editor's
note: I have added some
comments to Silver
Birch's thoughts on romantic love.
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my dear friend and cousin, Carolyn Kuhn Sperle
(P.S. #30)
- age 94 -
our
seniors, a treasure and most precious to us,
offer, to the discerning, many insights and
lessons
concerning the mystery of life and
romantic love...
"the beauty of the
body that perishes" (P.S.
#37)
(1941) The Two Cousins In
Summerland: "Johnny" Kuhn-Marquart and Carolyn
Kuhn
I so love this
photo - how I love it! - given to me
by dear Carolyn when I visited her on May 18. I offer it to you as
prelude to my forthcoming article, Personal Statement #50: Part II:
Forgiveness, The Final Battle, Agape-Love In The Trenches: What I Learned From Father John Kuhn, The Man Who Had Reason To Be Angry: All
Things Are Lessons God Would Have Me Learn!
Look at these Two, goofing around on a North Dakota Sunday afternoon, 69
years ago! Enjoying carefree summer fun. Enjoying each other. Look
at them affectionately leaning into each other... that
subtle sign of ownership and affinity between these
Soulmate-Cousins!
You know... my Uncle John
has helped me, another Kuhn-Marquart, in so many ways; but, seeing him here,
that infectious movie-star grin of his; that authentic radiance
and genuine good-person aura; that indomitable spirit of courage
against the hidden hurts in his life; my own spirit lifts, and it's a
little easier now for me to face what I need to do. Update, June 10, 2010: While
driving to a far-flung interview, I spoke
with Carolyn on the phone. She'd discovered another old snapshot of Father John,
and will get it to me. I commented on the above
photo, how much I like it. "Do you still remember
that day?" I casually queried, but with hidden motive. "I remember it," she
began slowly, with a note of solemnity, "as if it happened yesterday..."
That's what I thought, Dear.
The Secluded Pasture: one of the many
prairie-settings of the work of my youth.
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3-19-10: Personal Statement #37: Love In The
AfterLife: Part II: The Troubadour and the Wedding Song: All That
You Have Is Your Soul: Woman As Transforming Fire: Do You Believe
In Something You've Never Seen Before? - most
romantic attraction is a short-lived chemical feast in the brain;
but the real stuff is based on eternal, never-diminishing, soul energies!
- strictly speaking, romantic love is not
love at all - vows: an artifice,
a beggarly contrivance, an external attempt to make certain
a doubtful internal commitment - "her name was Ann, and I'll be damned"
- the fear of rejection by women is greater than the desire to
be with her! women do not know this - not True Marital Unions at
all, but merely negotiated domestic partnerships; quid pro
quo agreements, something for something; and none of this
will cause the Troubadours to remain - Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped
naked, dragged into their church, and was butchered; then they
made Cyril a saint - Noah had to jar Allie out of immature
concepts of right-and-wrong, ones externally imposed upon her:
"What do you want!" he shouted
at her - if you aren't married before the ceremony, you will never
be married -Yvonne would have introduced Adam to Female;
but only Eve, his Twin, could help
Adam know Woman! - we have been told that you cannot
separate something God has joined; but, it is equally true, you
cannot join that which God has separated - Paul uses the phrase,
if he is not "pleased to dwell with her," then,
"she is not bound" to the marriage! - the
Sacred Oneness that Twins enjoy is meant to serve as philosophical
blueprint by which they, as Troubadours, will help construct a New
Cosmic Society of the Loving Interconnectedness of All ... all
gathered in His name! - Come and let me look in your eyes...
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