Sublime

The purpose of human life is to rise above our merely human nature and awaken our divine nature. Human beings have the unique potential to know God, and God's greatest wish is that we fulfil this potential.

Thus, it is quite reasonable within a biblical context to see Eve as a type of Pandora fig- ure,28 who is to be commended for bringing sex into this world.

A. H. Almaas, the revered spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach, in his seminal work Essence (1986),

Emergence to my friend Stephen Dinan, CEO of the Shift Network,

Colossians and Ephesians teach that love of money, greed, is also “idolatry” (Col 3:5; Eph 5:5). The Greek word translated here as “greed” (πλεονεξία) is broader than simply a desire for more and more money, though it certainly includes that. It means any kind of “grasping” behavior,