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 Let me say a few words...  > January 2006 
 

Wednesday, the 4-th of January 2006                                         

 
 

 

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The hot-air balloon

 
I have chosen the symbol of the hot-air balloon because even if the truth is being unique, to our eyes it appears changeable, just as if we were observing the world from a hot-air balloon, on board there are a man and a woman, holding hands, tightly, completing a flight toward the truth.
I don't write thinking, the writing remains and the words fly away.
I write thinking, the writing remains and the thought evolves.
I write thinking, the writing remains and the will of God is accomplishing.
The writing remains and truth approaches.
The writing remains and the errors can be fixed.
I write what I think but after having written, I might not share it anymore.
 
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Thursday, the 5-th of January 2006                                          

 
 

 

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Give me what is mine

 
I'm reflecting on a sentence that is brought both on the Gospel of Thomas and the Canonical Gospels; the question that needs to be made is: «Is the difference minor or abysmal?» The sentence brought on the canonical Gospels says this way:
Mathew 22:17

17 «Tell us, then, what do you think? Is it right to pay tribute to Caesar, or not?» 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said: «Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?» 19 «Show me the coin of the tribute.» And they brought him a denarius. 20 And he asked to them: «Whose image and inscription is this?» 21 They answered: «Caesar's». And Jesus said to them: «Therefore, give the Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God». 22 And them, hearing this, they marveled and, leaving him, they went off.

In The Gospel of Thomas it says:

100. They showed Jesus a gold coin and told him, "The men of the Roman emperor ask us the taxes." He said to them, "Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor, give God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine."

The reflection is this: if the sentence of the Gospel of Thomas had been pronounced indeed by Jesus and someone willingly and maliciously had eliminated the part of the sentence in which Jesus affirms «give me what is mine» than, that hand has committed the repairable injustice of subtracting one's property of which that is the only legitimate owner.
In other terms, the sentence of the Gospel of Thomas could have the sense: «respect the state's authority, don't escape from what is spiritual, neither what belongs you».
In practice, if the sentence that Jesus has really pronounced was the one of the Gospel of Thomas, it would also have the meaning: «refer to what I have said and continue to think about it as you believe». Nobody is able to prevent the individual from giving himself and all that belongs to him, to the authorities and to God.


 
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The silence of God                                         

 
 

 

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The silence of God

 
The ironsmith strikes with the hammer on the anvil,
the time that elapses between one hit and another,
for moulding the iron, is perceived as the silence of God.
We attend the last hit, the definitive one,
that God will make to accomplish His work,
His Kingdom.
 
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Monday, the 9-th of January 2006                                         

 
 

 

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The word, the food and the rest

 
"The word is sacred, the food and the rest are precious."

 
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Tuesday, the 10-th of January 2006                                         

 
 

 

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Two sayings

 
There are two sayings, the one of the world which says: "The dog is respected for the love of his master" and, the second is of Jesus, "My brothers and my mother are those who make my Father’s will. They are those who will enter my Father's Kingdom."
In the first saying the respect comes for gratitude, but the one of Jesus doesn't have intermediaries.
 
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