Burke’s Blog

One-ness and unity are bigger than anything else. Be thankful for America - America is a safe and orderly place when your family is safe and orderly - Be thankful for your family - When we all learn to love each other as a human race we will still have different opinions about things - opinions are different than love. What is one thing that every single person agrees on? Everyone says, “Apparently, I exist.” “Apparently, for me to become something I previously wasn’t I must in the future be no longer what I apparently am now.” To grow in love means to change in love - we all have to become, moment by moment, something we previously were not while simultaneously recognizing our own singular uniqueness and the retention of an continuous identity shaped by the past and creating the future.

Peace takes effort. It also means letting go, giving, and forgiving. People who see religion as divisive are correct to a degree, in saying that different vocabularies to describe the mystery of one’s own life and the mystery of the interdependence among all people create barriers of communication between one religion and another. But too soon do people say it is impossible to have a common vocabulary in which everyone can use to describe the indescribable realities we all experience. I believe that this is possible.

War and debt both come from a lack of forgiveness.

These are all the same thing: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Oneness, Love