I looked at the jail that secluded me from men and it was no longer by its high wall that I was imprisoned; no, it was God who surrounded me. I walked under the branches of the tree in front of my cell but it was not the tree, I knew it was God. It [...]
Tag Archive for ‘jesus’ 
“You Must Die!”
Jesus in word and deed was almost violent in his call for death, for denial, for stripping, for abandoning, for letting go, for leaving all, for the journey up by going down. . . . This whole dialogue runs deep in us and all things. One could say, with complete honesty, that life is really no [...]
Feasting on Poisoned Cake
“Humanity grows more and more intelligent, yet there is clearly more trouble and less happiness daily. How can this be so? It is because intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.
When a society misuses partial intelligence and ignores holistic wisdom, its people forget the benefits of a plain and natural life. Seduced by their [...]
Do We Settle For Too Little?
Transcribed from a sermon Bo preached at the Ainsworth United Church of Christ in Portland, Oregon.
When I was younger and I heard the passage from St. Paul, “Man hath no greater love than this, to give his life to his fellow man,” I used to think laying down your life for your fellow man meant [...]
Practice: Real Bible Study
There’s an old Native American saying that I quoted in We’re All Doing Time:
If you seek to understand the whole Universe, you will understand nothing. If you seek to understand yourself, you will understand the whole Universe.
This principle applies in a related way to Bible study and the study of any religious principles. If we [...]
Life is Good
Transcribed & edited from a talk given by Bo Lozoff in Costa Mesa CA, in March, 2006
I hope that every time we have a meeting like this, we change ourselves – not just learn more about some subject like prisons. I’m hoping to be a deeper, more inspired and committed person when I leave the room tonight, and I [...]
God is Real
From a talk given by Bo Lozoff at a meditation center in Tallahassee, FL, December 11, 2005.
I see meetings like this as just this very classic, traditional situation that’s been going on since the beginning of time: there’s a world that’s gone mad, and small pockets of people meeting here and there to talk [...]
