Open Windows

An Interfaith Soul Care Blog

You Are the Answer

This Week's Quotation: You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. ~ Rumi You Are the Answer Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator There comes a moment when the...
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Posted: July 10, 2025
The Quiet Voice

This Week's Quotation: Silence is not only the absence of sound, but the presence of deeper meaning. ~ Rev Kieran Mardle-Moss, Universal Unitarian The Quiet Voice Rev. Berry Behr, Interfaith Minister Our bodies work differently...
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Posted: July 3, 2025
We Are the Bridge

This Week's Quotation: There is a bridge between time and eternity; this bridge is the Spirit, and it is always now. ~ Marianne Williamson We Are the Bridge Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator A great turning is...
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Posted: June 26, 2025
From a High Place

This Week's Quotation: When you see the world through the lens of your Highest Self, it is much easier to navigate the chaos and witness everything going on without being attached to it. ~ Steve Farrell (Humanity’s...
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Posted: June 19, 2025
Nature’s Faith

This Week's Quotation: Listen patiently, quietly, and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know. ~...
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Posted: June 12, 2025
Adventures in Consciousness

This Week's Quotation: What the world is, is but a fact. You cannot choose what this should be. But you can choose how you would see it. Indeed, you must choose this. A Course in Miracles, M-11.1 ...
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Posted: June 5, 2025
The Gift of Bearing Witness

This Week's Quotation: When we bear witness, when we become the situation—homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death—the right action arises by itself. We don’t have to worry about what to do. We don’t have to figure out solutions ahead of...
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Posted: May 29, 2025
Soul Choices

This Week's Quotation: At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Soul Choices Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator I have...
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Posted: May 22, 2025
Uncaging the Heart of the Lion

This Week's Quotation: The most important form of liberation is to recognize, then give free expression to our God-given gifts: unimaginable rewards are released when we do. – Linda Tucker, LionHearted Leadership™ - The 13 Laws Uncaging the...
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Posted: May 15, 2025
Swimming in God

This Week's Quotation: In God we live and move and have our being. It is God who gives life to all, who gives power and being to all that exists. Consider that you are in God, surrounded and...
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Posted: May 8, 2025
Solar Courage

This Week's Quotation: The sun is a daily reminder that we, too, can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light. ~ Sara Ajna Solar Courage Rev. Berry Behr, Interfaith Minister ...
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Posted: May 1, 2025
Love’s Architects

This Week's Quotation: We’re all faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. These are the challenges and problems in our lives, which feel like obstacles─but are actually here to help us evolve as eternal souls. ~ Dr. Joe Dispenza...
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Posted: April 24, 2025
Defining Freedom

This Week's Quotation: It’s a long road to freedom, a winding steep and high. But when you walk in love with the wind on your wing and cover the earth with the songs you sing, the miles fly by....
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Posted: April 17, 2025
Love is the Bridge

This Week's Quotation: Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. When the world pushes you to your...
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Posted: April 10, 2025
The Eloquent Peasant

This Week's Quotation: The Golden Rule is the roadmap to build peaceful co-existence, social cohesion, harmony, human dignity and secure a better future for this generation and generation yet to come. – Ambassador Mussie Hailu, Global Envoy of United...
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Posted: April 3, 2025
I Am Come

This Week's Quotation: The “second coming” of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. ~ Eckhart Tolle I Am...
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Posted: March 27, 2025
The Rejuvenating Power of Love Beyond Difference

This Week's Quotation: A funeral is an occasion to both mourn together and rejuvenate one another with love. Through their presence at a funeral, family and friends get to display their solidarity anew. ~ Hlumelo Biko: Black Consciousness –...
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Posted: March 20, 2025
The Medicine of Grace

This Week's Quotation: Lent comes to providentially reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. ~ Pope Francis The Medicine of Grace Terri McCartney I shared this quote from Pope Francis because it captures the essence...
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Posted: March 13, 2025
Abiding Resilience

This Week's Quotation: Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. ~ Ping...
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Posted: March 6, 2025
Imagine

This Week’s Quotation: All of life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get to decide which prophecy your self will fulfill. ~ Alan Cohen Imagine Dr. Katie-Grace Garnett With all that is going on in the world, it would...
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Posted: February 27, 2025
Choosing Home

This Week's Quotation: At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of destiny; for a stage has been reached in which the human mind has achieved in certain directions an enormous development while...
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Posted: February 20, 2025
Abiding Radiance

This Week's Quotation: Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~...
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Posted: February 13, 2025
Living the Dream of Interfaith Harmony

This Week's Quotation: In all three of the monotheistic faiths, we share the two greatest commandments: to love God and to love our neighbor. We are thus bound—each and every one of us— by our own faiths to reach...
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Posted: February 6, 2025
Blessings of Unity

This Week's Quotation: My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. ~ Desmond Tutu Blessings of Unity Terri McCartney I’ve found that breaking the habits of disconnection involves a steady...
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Posted: January 30, 2025
Freedom and Responsibility

This Week's Quotation: The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility. ~ South African President Nelson Mandela, 1995 State of the Nation address Freedom and Responsibility Rev. Berry Behr,...
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Posted: January 23, 2025
The Action of Unified Prayer

This Week's Quotation: Let right deeds be thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them. And live in action! Labour! Make thine acts thy piety, casting all self aside, condemning gain and merit. ― Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita The...
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Posted: January 16, 2025
The Grace of Caring

This Week’s Quotation: The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. ~ Dalai Lama The Grace of Caring Dr. Katie-Grace Garnett It may seem counter-intuitive sometimes to think that...
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Posted: January 9, 2025
Peace Like a River

This Week's Quotation: For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip...
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Posted: January 2, 2025
Lighting up our World

This Week's Quotation: The sign of Christmas is a star,a light in the darkness.See it not outside yourself,but shining in the Heaven within,and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. ~ A Course in Miracles...
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Posted: December 26, 2024
The Everlasting Season of Goodwill

This Week's Quotation: He who sees all beings in his Self and his Self in all beings, he never suffers; because when he sees all creatures within his true Self, then jealousy, grief, and hatred vanish.~ Paramananda, The Upanishads The...
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Posted: December 19, 2024
Divine Character

This Week's Quotation: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on...
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Posted: December 12, 2024
In Search of the Win-Win-Win

This Week's Quotation: A superior person takes time to discover what is right. The lesser person takes time to discover what pays better. ~ The Analects 4.16 In Search of the Win-Win-Win Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith Ambassador...
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Posted: December 5, 2024
Anchored in Appreciation

This Week's Quotation: Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you...
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Posted: November 28, 2024
Supreme Blessedness

This Week's Quotation: When feeling out of rhythm with yourself, others, or your situation, experiment with breathing in and out, feeling the sound of the word rukha, or Alaha… Neil Douglas-Klotz: Prayers of the Cosmos, p. 49 Supreme...
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Posted: November 21, 2024
Hearts Awakening

This Week’s Quotation: The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ~Mark Twain Hearts Awakening Dr. Katie Grace Garnett This is a time of great...
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Posted: November 14, 2024
Community of the Heart

This Week's Quotation: Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves, but for one another. ~ Henri Nouwen Community of the Heart ...
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Posted: November 7, 2024
The Power of Your Light

This Week's Quotation: I walk with God in perfect holiness. Everyone in the world is innocent. The truth about them is God. Ideas leave not their source. God is One. All that is real is of God and...
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Posted: October 31, 2024
The Fruit of the Spirit

This Week's Quotation: The core tenets of a functioning democracy—the rule of law, and respect for individual freedoms—are also the most basic of Islamic values bestowed upon us by God. No political or religious leader has the authority to...
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Posted: October 24, 2024
Light Ultimately Prevails

This Week's Quotation: There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering. The pain we witness can be...
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Posted: October 17, 2024
Passing it on

This Week's Quotation: All of the talents in the world are merely to implement the person’s will to do good, which becomes stamped into his being through the light of constant teshuvah. A great influx of God’s spirit falls constantly...
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Posted: October 10, 2024
It Really Seems Like a Good Time for Prayer

This Week’s Quotation: What is a prayer? A prayer is a thought that possesses the quality of directed intention. It’s holding a specific outcome in our minds with the objective of connecting to a greater power or assistance. ~ Dr. Joe...
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Posted: October 3, 2024
The Essence of My Being

This Week's Quotation: If our lives scream out, “love, kindness, joy, hope, forgiveness,” they will definitely be echoed back. So, go ahead and live out loud and bring back a beautiful echo, echo, echo. ~ Caroline Naoroji The Essence...
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Posted: September 26, 2024
The Lord Dwells in People’s Hearts

This Week’s Quotation: The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts… His people were his temple, and he...
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Posted: September 19, 2024
God Knows My Heart

This Week's Quotation: Truth is complex and has multiple aspects. No single statement can describe the nature of existence and the absolute truth. - Jain Philosophy God Knows My Heart Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith Ambassador I met...
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Posted: September 12, 2024
Your Inner Sanctuary

This Week’s Quotation: We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert Your Inner Sanctuary Often, our Inner Worry Room is not far away from...
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Posted: September 5, 2024
The Power in the Pause

This Week's Quotation: Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. ~Wayne Dyer The...
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Posted: August 29, 2024
The Expansion of Compassion

This Week’s Quotation: The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. ~ Dalai Lama The Expansion of Compassion In times of grief, fear, and need we are learning, or...
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Posted: August 22, 2024
The Golden Dream

This Week's Quotation: …and pluck, ‘til time and times are doneThe silver apples of the moonThe golden apples of the sun. ~ WB Yeats, “Song of the Wandering Aengus” The Golden Dream Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith Ambassador...
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Posted: August 15, 2024
Embracing the Paradox: The Perfection and the Suffering

This Week's Quotation: Among mankind, the recognition of beauty as such implies the idea of ugliness, and the recognition of good implies the idea of evil. There is the same mutual relation between existence and non-existence in the...
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Posted: August 8, 2024
The Deep Blessings of Community

This Week’s Quotation: The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. ~ Mitch...
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Posted: July 31, 2024
The Centre of the Circle

This Week's Quotation: The challenge… is to stand well poised in the centre of the circle, the eternal Self, so that one can move awareness up and down the continuum from the spiritual into the physical and not be...
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Posted: July 25, 2024
The Flow of Grace

This Week's Quotation: If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace is His answer to all despair, for...
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Posted: July 18, 2024
Barefoot Discernment

This Week's Quotation: First of all, I believed nothing was impossible and at the same time, I questioned everything. ~ Sri Aurobindo Barefoot Discernment Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith Ambassador Sri Aurobindo was a visionary Indian activist who developed...
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Posted: July 11, 2024
The Gift of Now

This Week’s Quotation: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there...
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Posted: July 4, 2024
Hear Me Roar!

This Week's Quotation: In His wisdom, God has given us enormous potential; we can use that potential to improve our own lives and the lives of others. We have the ability to make decisions throughout our lives as we...
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Posted: June 27, 2024
Collaboration

This Week's Quotation: Collaboration, not competition, is the royal road to sustain us and all the beings who inhabit the Earth. Collaboration calls for empathy and solidarity, and ultimately for love. Collaboration inspired by love is the way to...
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Posted: June 20, 2024
Thinking Together, Not Thinking Alike

This Week's Quotation: Thinking together is more important than thinking alike. ~ Johnny Moscato Thinking Together, Not Thinking Alike Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith Ambassador Think of a beautiful piece of lace. I can’t decide which component is more...
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Posted: June 13, 2024
Butterfly Wisdom

This Week's Quotation: We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. ~ LeeAnn Taylor, The Fragile Face of God Butterfly Wisdom Terri McCartney Who doesn’t love butterflies? It’s mesmerizing to watch them dance with the air....
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Posted: June 6, 2024
Forgiveness Again and Again

This Week's Quotation: Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. He who...
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Posted: May 30, 2024
Heliotropic Devotion

This Week's Quotation: Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. If everything around seems dark, look again, you...
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Posted: May 23, 2024
The Technology of Celebration

This Week's Quotation: Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as...
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Posted: May 16, 2024
Holy Intention

This Week's Quotation: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Meade Holy Intention Terri McCartney Hardship and tragedy may...
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Posted: May 9, 2024
Life is a Khutbah

This Week's Quotation: Verily, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. ~ Quran 13-11 Life is a Khutbah Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith Ambassador The Arabic word for...
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Posted: May 2, 2024
Living in Eternity

This Week's Quotation: Some people are old at 18 and some people are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. ~ Yoko Ono Living in Eternity Jerry Kvasnicka, Come dance with me! Yoko is absolutely...
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Posted: April 25, 2024
The Divine Force of Magnetism

This Week's Quotation: …for any movement animated by love moveth from the periphery to the centre, from space to the Day-Star of the universe… for when the guiding power is the divine force of magnetism it is possible, by...
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Posted: April 18, 2024
The Altitude of Gratitude

This Week's Quotation: Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to life as it greets you. Give thanks for what most people take for granted. Live in the attitude and altitude...
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Posted: April 11, 2024
Gathering Blessings

This Week's Quotation: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12 Gathering Blessings Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith Ambassador Reverend Gopie heads...
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Posted: April 4, 2024
True Strength

This Week's Quotation: God is the strength in which I trust. If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious, and fearful. What can you predict or control? What is there...
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Posted: March 28, 2024
Who Is Your Leader?

This Week's Quotation: If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader. ~ Dolly Parton Who is Your Leader? Rev. Berry Behr, Global Interfaith...
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Posted: March 21, 2024
Riding the Waves

This Week's Quotation: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2 Riding the...
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Posted: March 14, 2024
Safe Spaces

This Week's Quotation: Create safe spaces for yourself. Wrap yourself in goodness and warmth and love. Stay surrounded by people who are genuine—think twice if you can’t trust them with your heart. You are allowed to protect your peace....
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Posted: March 7, 2024
Faithful Tenacity

This Week's Quotation: Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein Faithful Tenacity Terri McCartney I have long found upliftment in Einstein's insights, and whenever I feel discouraged by the dispiriting reality...
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Posted: February 29, 2024
Good Company

This Week's Quotation: And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ~ Martin Scorsese Good Company Rev. Berry...
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Posted: February 22, 2024
Release and Renew

This Week's Quotation: Lent is a time of going very deeply into ourselves. What is it that stands between us and God? Between us and our brothers and sisters? Between us and life, the life of the Spirit?...
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Posted: February 15, 2024
Beloved Community

This Week's Quotation: The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opponents into friends… It is...
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Posted: February 8, 2024
Love and Oneness

This Week's Quotation: Each and every one of us has the capacity within ourselves to feel into the Oneness of the universe, exist in a state of interconnectedness and beauty, and be love embodied. Imagine what the world would...
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Posted: February 1, 2024
Expanding Fields of Possibility

This Week's Quotation: Our habitual vision of things is not necessarily right: it is only one of an infinite number, and to glimpse an unfamiliar one, even for a moment, unmakes us, but steadies us again. ~ Nan Shepherd...
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Posted: January 25, 2024
Spiritual Alchemy

This Week's Quotation: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen or diet, learn theosophy by heart,...
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Posted: January 18, 2024
Loving Beyond Difference

This Week's Quotation: …if the other person were drowning, I wouldn't ask about his faith or politics before I'd throw him a line. Who would? ~ Richard M Landau, What the world needs to know about Interfaith Dialogue ...
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Posted: January 11, 2024
Unveiling Compassion Through Shadow Work

This Week's Quotation: Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real...
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Posted: January 4, 2024
A Kind of Hush Over Bethlehem

This Week's Quotation: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1 A Kind of Hush Over Bethlehem Rev. Berry Behr, Interfaith Minister Christmas was canceled...
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Posted: December 28, 2023
Solstice Blessings

This Week's Quotation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus Solstice Blessings Terri McCartney Those of us who live in the northern hemisphere are...
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Posted: December 21, 2023
Life’s Love Letters

This Week's Quotation: Bringing people together is what I call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you...
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Posted: December 14, 2023
The Essence of Interfaith

This Week's Quotation: Our ideas are made brilliant by joining the flames of our inner visions as we share the experience of love within friendship. ~ I Ching, 13th Hexagram The Essence of Interfaith Rev. Berry...
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Posted: November 30, 2023
Sunshine Mind

This Week's Quotation: Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. Gratitude can be a vaccine that prevents the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys...
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Posted: November 23, 2023
Miracles Are Part of Divine Design

This Week's Quotation: Believe in your heart that you are meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic, and miracles. ~ Roy T Bennett, Light in the Heart Miracles Are Part of Divine Design Rev....
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Posted: November 16, 2023
Answering an Unexpected Call

This Week's Quotation: If I can help someone at the end of life heal and be clear, I will. There are some things we are required to do alone, but we are not isolated. We are community people. What...
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Posted: November 9, 2023
Journey to Self-Spirituality

This Week's Quotation: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. ~ Swami Vivekananda Journey to Self-Spirituality Bexx Kashyap, Reiki...
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Posted: November 2, 2023
Where is the Love?

This Week's Quotation: I can’t force peaceon the world but I can become a forceof peace in the world because sometimes all it takesis a single-lit candle in the darkness to start a movement ~ John Roedel, Love is...
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Posted: October 26, 2023
Heartlight

This Week's Quotation: Accessing our heart’s natural intelligence can create an energetic field of unconditional love and harmonious interactions—helping humanity to realize we are one Earth, one yard, one people. Realize that now, in this moment of time,...
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Posted: October 19, 2023
The Gift in Chaos

This Week's Quotation: Order is nothing but a friendship with chaos. Order provides the stabilities that we crave, but chaos creates the opportunities for change that we need. ~ Abhijit Naskar The Gift in Chaos Rev. Berry...
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Posted: October 12, 2023
Solar Courage

This Week's Quotation: For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. ~ Kahlil Gibran, artist...
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Posted: October 5, 2023
Pure Potentiality

This Week's Quotation: When the water is turbulent, remind yourself & others on your boat to breathe. Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness within you. Then, the chaotic movement around you...
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Posted: September 28, 2023
Peace Like a River

This Week's Quotation: For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip...
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Posted: September 21, 2023
The Unconquerable Soul

This Week's Quotation: For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. ~ Kahlil Gibran, artist...
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Posted: September 14, 2023
How Much Love!

This Week's Quotation: We are contemplatives in the heart of the world. Whatever we are, whatever we do, it is not what we do but how much love we put into it. How much love! ~ Mother Teresa A...
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Posted: September 7, 2023
Life-Giving Suns

This Week's Quotation: Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun. ~ Hafiz, Persian Sufi Poet Life-Giving Suns Terri McCartney Over the years, I’ve learned that becoming a sun involves more undoing than doing....
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Posted: August 31, 2023
Gratitude and Grace

This Week's Quotation: When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things,...
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Posted: August 24, 2023
A Glorious Vision

This Week's Quotation: The blue planet earth is alive. The mystic earth is awakening. The mountains and the streams and the seas are full of life. They dance with pounding hearts and within them the mind of the Creator...
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Posted: August 17, 2023
A Holy Instant

This Week's Quotation: The holy instant is this instant and every instant… Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let all littleness go… I call you to fulfill your holy part in the plan that He...
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Posted: August 10, 2023
Cultivating Siddhic Mind

This Week's Quotation: Minute by minute, thought by thought, your mind is what shapes your life. ~ Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Guru of the Siddha Yoga path Cultivating Siddhic Mind Terri McCartney We have all heard it said,...
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Posted: August 3, 2023
Unleashing Divine Perseverance

This Week's Quotation: To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard,...
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Posted: July 27, 2023
Sovereignty

This Week’s Quotation: We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back...
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Posted: July 20, 2023
Embracing Divine Purpose

This Week's Quotation: You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda Embracing...
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Posted: July 13, 2023
I Am What I Seek

This Week's Quotation: I looked in temples, churches, and mosques, but I found the Divine within my heart. ~ Rumi I Am What I Seek Jerry Kvasnicka, Seeking no more My experience has been the same as Rumi’s....
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Posted: July 6, 2023
Dancing With Chaos

This Week's Quotation: Where the Divine and the Human Meet shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist, particularly in these uncertain times: What do we do with chaos? Creativity has an...
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Posted: June 29, 2023
Holy Encounters

This Week's Quotation: When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him [her], you will see yourself. As you treat him [her], you will treat yourself. As you think of him [her], you will...
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Posted: June 22, 2023
A Dazzling Gift

This Week's Quotation: We are all on a journey that began billions of years before us and stretches billions of years into the future. So as we call ourselves into new octaves of creative expression, new depths of sacred...
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Posted: June 15, 2023
Remembering

This Week's Quotation: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I...
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Posted: June 8, 2023
Everything Falls Away

This Week's Quotation: Everything falls away, except the thread you’ve followed, unknowing, all along. The thread that strings together all you’ve been and done, the thread you didn’t know you were tracking until, toward the end, you see that...
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Posted: June 1, 2023
Smile

This Week's Quotation: Joy is very infectious. We will never know just how much good a simple smile can do. Smile at people who cross your path. You have a beautiful smile. Don’t waste it. Live beautifully. Smile at...
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Posted: May 25, 2023
Tranquility

This Week's Quotation: Tranquility…is the perfect Peace of the Wonderful One within. In Tranquility is the everlasting attitude toward external events wherein one can truly say, “NONE OF THESE THINGS MOVE ME.” Tranquility is the supreme virtue, for therein...
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Posted: May 18, 2023
Good Medicine

This Week's Quotation: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. ~ Dalia Lama Good Medicine Terri McCartney If you have been feeling laughter-deprived lately, may the Dalai Lama’s words...
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Posted: May 11, 2023
All Things Made New

This Week's Quotation: Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. ~ Revelation 21:5 All Things Made New Terri McCartney As this “revelation” from the Bible foretold,...
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Posted: May 4, 2023
To Dress and Keep the Garden

This Week's Quotation: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God took the man, and put...
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Posted: April 27, 2023
Ho’oponopono

This Week's Quotation: The purpose of life is to be restored back to Love, moment to moment. To fulﬁll this purpose, we must acknowledge that we are 100 percent responsible for creating our life the way it is. The...
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Posted: April 20, 2023
Life-Giving Suns

This Week's Quotation: We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom, and light. Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all...
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Posted: April 13, 2023
Release and Renewal

This Week's Quotation: Let us not spend this holy week brooding on the crucifixion of God's Son, but happily in the celebration of his release. Easter is the sign of peace, not pain. A slain Christ has no meaning....
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Posted: April 6, 2023
Imbued with Grace

This Week's Quotation: Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. ~ Thomas Merton Imbued with Grace...
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Posted: March 30, 2023
Good Vibes

This Week's Quotation: The source is within you and this whole world is springing up from it. ~ Rumi Good Vibes Terri McCartney Do you sense the many new possibilities rising on the horizon during these vibrationally diverse...
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Posted: March 23, 2023
Thinking with the Mind of God

This Week's Quotation: God is the mind with which I think. I will not allow the thoughts of the world to hold me back. Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which I have cluttered up my...
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Posted: March 16, 2023
God Is in Everything

This Week's Quotation: See that I am God. See that I am in everything. See that I do everything. See that I have never stopped ordering my works, nor ever shall, eternally. See that I lead everything on to...
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Posted: March 9, 2023
Being Love

This Week's Quotation: Let me be embraced with the love by which the whole of creation is moved. The very essence with which all things are held together, dependent yet independent, whole yet individuated. In which all are my...
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Posted: March 2, 2023
Truth Telling

This Week's Quotation: Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of...
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Posted: February 23, 2023
A New Story

This Week's Quotation: Love, which created me, is what I am. I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world. I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me. ~ A Course...
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Posted: February 16, 2023
Love is a Superpower

This Week's Quotation: There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open... It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless...
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Posted: February 9, 2023
Always Do Your Best

This Week's Quotation: God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting...
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Posted: February 2, 2023
Interacting With the Field

This Week's Quotation: Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. The implications of this to our understanding of life and the design...
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Posted: January 26, 2023
Maintaining Equilibrium

This Week's Quotation: O best among men [Arjuna], the person who is not disturbed by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation. ~ Bhagavad Gita Maintaining Equilibrium Bexx Biehl, Reiki Master, Yogini/Certified Yoga,...
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Posted: January 19, 2023
The Almighty Ocean in a Drop

This Week's Quotation: You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop. ~ Rumi The Almighty Ocean in a Drop Terri McCartney Wow, to know and experience the truth that...
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Posted: January 12, 2023
Loving Into the Answers

This Week's Quotation: What could you not accept if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One whose only purpose is your good? ~ A Course in Miracles...
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Posted: January 5, 2023
Welcoming the New Year

This Week's Quotation: Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind. All of us can look back and see things that should have defeated us. You’re still standing. That’s...
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Posted: December 29, 2022
Rise and Radiate

This Week's Quotation: Being a candle is not easy; in order to give light, one must first burn. ~ Rumi Rise and Radiate Terri McCartney I’ve dedicated my adult life to discerning between the me that...
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Posted: December 22, 2022
The Season of Light

This Week's Quotation: This is the season when people of all faiths and cultures are pushing back against the planetary darkness. We string bulbs, ignite bonfires, and light candles. And we sing. ~ Anita Diamant - Author and thought...
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Posted: December 15, 2022
Your Most Precious Gifts

This Week's Quotation: Christmas should be celebrated not only by appropriate festivities and the exchange of material gifts, but also by deep, continuous meditation, making your consciousness a cosmic cathedral for Christ. You should offer therein your most precious...
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Posted: December 8, 2022
Precious Blessing

This Week's Quotation: And when you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ~ Marcus Aurelius Precious Blessing Terri McCartney I...
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Posted: December 1, 2022
Anchored in Gratitude

This Week's Quotation: Love is the way to walk in gratitude. And let your gratitude make room for all who will be freed with you: the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming...
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Posted: November 24, 2022
Denying Love Is Our Only Problem

This Week's Quotation: Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is...
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Posted: November 17, 2022
Ordinary Things With
Extraordinary Love

This Week's Quotation: There have been many saints who have gone before to guide us, but I like the ones who are simple, like St. Therese of Lisieux. I chose her as my namesake because she did ordinary things...
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Posted: November 11, 2022
The Greater Works

This Week's Quotation: He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. ~(John 14:12) The Greater Works Jerry Kvasnicka,...
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Posted: November 3, 2022
Empowered Consciousness

This Week's Quotation: Every one of us already has the seed of mindfulness. The practice is to cultivate it. Yesterday is already gone. Tomorrow is not yet here. Today is the only day available to us; it is the...
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Posted: October 27, 2022
Celebrating Life

This Week's Quotation: This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. ~ Book of Psalms, 118:24 Celebrating Life Terri McCartney Let us rejoice and be glad in each new day!...
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Posted: October 20, 2022
Words as Blessings

This Week's Quotation: The scripture says, "We will eat the fruit of our words." Words are like seeds. You are planting seeds when you talk. At some point, you're going to eat that fruit. When you speak something out,...
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Posted: October 13, 2022
Being in God the Creator

This Week’s Quotation: In God we live and move and have our being. It is God who gives life to all, who gives power and being to all that exists. Consider that you are in God, surrounded and encompassed...
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Posted: October 6, 2022
God Alone is Enough

This Week's Quotation: Let nothing disturb you.Let nothing frighten you.All things pass away.God never changes.Patience obtains all things.They who have Godlack nothing.God alone is enough. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila God Alone is Enough Terri McCartney I...
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Posted: September 29, 2022
Radiance

This Week's Quotation: Radiance is the ever-expanding Essence of the Wonderful One made manifest in the body. Radiance is the Presence made visible in the world of physical things, that I AM THAT I AM may be known. ~...
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Posted: September 23, 2022
Everything is a Miracle

This Week's Quotation: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein Everything is a Miracle Terri McCartney...
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Posted: September 15, 2022
Spiritual Community

This Week's Quotation: An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ Martin Luther King Spiritual Community Terri McCartney ...
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Posted: September 8, 2022
Creative Fire

This Week’s Quotation: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also...
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Posted: September 1, 2022
Togetherness

This Week's Quotation: Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship.… So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~ Bahá'u'lláh Togetherness Terri McCartney...
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Posted: August 25, 2022
Rest in God

This Week's Quotation: I place the future in the hands of God. Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. Accept...
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Posted: August 18, 2022
Where Peace Begins

This Week’s Quotation: What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. ~ Mother Teresa Where Peace Begins Jerry Kvasnicka, Be Peace! There are so many human efforts to bring peace to the...
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Posted: August 11, 2022
Wake Up Smiling

This Week's Quotation: Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement…get up in the morning, and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible. Never treat life...
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Posted: August 4, 2022
Love is Everything

This Week's Quotation: If you are silent, keep silent for love. If you speak, speak for love. If you correct, correct for love. If you forgive, forgive for love. May the root of love be always in you because...
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Posted: July 28, 2022
Mystical Power

This Week's Quotation: Give the light, and the darkness will disappear by itself. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, 1500’s Catholic Priest Mystical Power Terri McCartney I treasure timeless gems, like this quote from Erasmus that reminds me of our...
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Posted: July 21, 2022
Wetiko

This Week’s Quotation: There is a psychospiritual disease of the soul that originates within ourselves, and that has the potential to destroy our species or to wake us up, depending on whether or not we recognize what it is...
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Posted: July 14, 2022
Glorifying God

This Week’s Quotation: Question: What is the chief end of man?Answer: Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. (Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian Church) Glorifying God Jerry Kvasnicka, Enjoying the Creator I was...
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Posted: July 7, 2022
Pray Without Ceasing

This Week's Quotation: Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; ~ Romans 12:12 Pray Without Ceasing Terri McCartney Today I write about the most powerful tool in my spiritual repertoire: prayer—it is the...
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Posted: June 30, 2022
Living Life as an Experiment

This Week's Quotation: The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life. We are always in transition. If you can just relax...
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Posted: June 23, 2022
Unexpected Visitors

This Week's Quotation: This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep...
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Posted: June 16, 2022
Radiating Love

This Week's Quotation: Let’s get loose with compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ~ Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, Persian Mystic Radiating Love Terri McCartney I am on...
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Posted: June 9, 2022
It’s All Divine

This Week's Quotation: Behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ Luke 17:21 It’s All Divine Terri McCartney The kingdom of God is within us all. There are no exceptions! It’s just that those of us who...
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Posted: June 2, 2022
The Blessing of Diversity

This Week's Quotation: Consider the flowers of a garden. Though differing in kind, color, form, and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the rays...
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Posted: May 26, 2022
Shedding the Old

This Week's Quotation: And Jesus said unto them… And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. New wine is for...
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Posted: May 19, 2022
Spiritual Adulthood

This Week’s Quotation: It is time for us to step into spiritual adulthood and realize the true meaning of co-creationism: our divine light working with the divine light within creation. It is up to us: if we do not...
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Posted: May 12, 2022
The Way of Miracles

This Week's Quotation: The real miracle is to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle that we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the curious eyes of a child... All is...
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Posted: May 5, 2022
Revolutionary Love

This Week's Quotation: Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought: you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged. Creation is eternal and unalterable. Your...
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Posted: April 28, 2022
The Way of Kindness

This Week’s Quotation: Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments. ~ Talmud The Way of Kindness Katie-Grace Garnett Usually, when I am asked about the most important way of being, I feel it...
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Posted: April 21, 2022
Courage—An Essential Virtue for Our Time

This Week’s Quotation: Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9 Courage—An Essential Virtue for Our Time Jerry Kvasnicka Finding...
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Posted: April 14, 2022
Laughter is Good Medicine

This Week's Quotation: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. ~ Dalia Lama Laughter is Good Medicine Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator If you have been feeling laughter-deprived of...
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Posted: April 7, 2022
Sacred Pledge

This Week's Quotation: Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to...
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Posted: March 31, 2022
Little Things Mean a Lot

This Week’s Quotation: Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa Little Things Mean a Lot Jerry Kvasnicka Creating Flowers of Love Probably very few reading...
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Posted: March 24, 2022
A Decided Heart

This Week’s Quotation: Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi A Decided Heart Terri McCartney, Soul Care Facilitator ...
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Posted: March 17, 2022
Radiating Light

This Week’s Quotation: You are the light of the world. This is merely a statement of truth about yourself. It refers to you as you were created by God. This is a beginning step in accepting your real function...
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Posted: March 10, 2022
Motionless in Motion

This Week’s Quotation: Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. ~Tao Te Ching Motionless in Motion Jerry Kvasnicka Unmoved yet Moving How is it possible to travel...
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Posted: March 3, 2022
Inner Peace

This Week’s Quotation: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ~ John 14:27 Inner Peace...
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Posted: February 24, 2022
Holy Encounters

This Week’s Quotation: When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see them, you will see yourself. As you treat them, you will treat yourself. As you think of them, you will think of yourself....
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Posted: February 17, 2022
Bringing Order, Peace, and Harmony

This Week’s Quotation: First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and...
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Posted: February 10, 2022
Breakthrough Questions

This Week’s Quotation: Can you imagine how your problems might look from God’s point of view, or envision how God might resolve them? Do you ever ask yourself what is the reason for the circumstances of your life? Have...
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Posted: February 3, 2022
The Rapture of Being Alive

This Week’s Quotation: The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. ~ Song of Solomon 2:8 The Rapture of Being Alive Jerry KvasnickaLeaping for Joy No, 2022 is not a...
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Posted: January 20, 2022
All is Well

This Week’s Quotation: Whatever happened, happened for the good. Whatever is happening, is happening for the good. Whatever will happen, will also happen for the good. ~ Bhagavad Gita All is Well Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I often...
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Posted: January 13, 2022
Lighting up the World

This Week’s Quotation: Ye are the light of the world. ~ Matthew 5:14 Lighting up the World Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I have found that using this quote from Matthew as a mantra serves me well. I use...
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Posted: January 6, 2022
The Christ Within

This Week’s Quotation: The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. This Christmas...
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Posted: December 23, 2021
Christmas Spirit

This Week’s Quotation: Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving others with God’s own love and concern. It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you. ~ Mother Teresa Christmas Spirit Terri McCartneySoul...
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Posted: December 16, 2021
The Blessings of Advent

This Week’s Quotation: Advent reminds us that God always answers. God is present in the history of humanity. He is the God-with-us. He walks beside us to support us. Confidently waiting for the Lord allows us to find comfort...
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Posted: December 9, 2021
Centered in the Way

This Week’s Quotation: The sovereign soul who lives self-governed and at peace is centered in himself, taking alike pleasure and pain, heat, cold, glory, and shame. He is the Faithful and Illumined One, glad with joy of light and...
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Posted: December 2, 2021
Bountiful Blessings

This Week’s Quotation: Every day, think as you wake up: Today, I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use...
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Posted: November 24, 2021
Amazing Grace

This Week's Quotation: When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. When you...
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Posted: November 18, 2021
Love is a Verb

This Week’s Quotation: Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Love is a Verb Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator What is love if not expressed as continual action, continual choice, and continual...
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Posted: November 11, 2021
A Holy Instant

This Week’s Quotation: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace. If I need a word to help me, You will give it...
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Posted: November 4, 2021
Changing Our Inner Climate

This Week’s Quotation: We have inherited the garden: we must not leave a desert to our children.~ Pope Francis Changing Our Inner Climate Jerry KvasnickaCool in the Flame Pope Francis spoke these words in advance of the 2021 UN Climate...
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Posted: October 28, 2021
Bodhicitta

This Week's Quotation: We are at a time when old systems and ideas are being questioned and falling apart, and there is a great opportunity for something fresh to emerge. I have no idea what that will look like...
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Posted: October 21, 2021
Be Still

This Week’s Quotation: Be still and know that I Am God. Psalms 46:10 Be Still Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator Being still does not comes easily to me. Maybe you can relate. I suppose that’s because stillness creates a...
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Posted: October 14, 2021
Embraced by Love

This Week’s Quotation: Let me be embraced by the love by which the whole of creation is moved. The very essence with which all things are held together, dependent yet independent, whole yet individuated. In which all are my...
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Posted: October 7, 2021
Peace is a Positive State

This Week’s Quotation: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27 Peace is...
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Posted: September 30, 2021
Believing is Seeing

This Week’s Quotation: Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your...
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Posted: September 23, 2021
Transmitters of Divine Presence

This Week’s Quotation: You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. No one else can fill your part… God, through His Voice, reminds you of it…Yet, there must be a place made ready to receive His gifts. A...
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Posted: September 16, 2021
Only With Thine Eyes

This Week’s Quotation: A thousand shalt fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shalt not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalms...
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Posted: September 9, 2021
Beacons of Light

This Week’s Quotation: Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, as all things are passing. God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God. God alone is sufficient. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila ...
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Posted: September 2, 2021
The Ambiance of Love

This Week’s Quotation: Let’s get loose with compassion. Let’s drown in the delicious ambiance of love. An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ~ Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, Persian Mystic The Ambiance of Love Terri McCartneySoul Care...
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Posted: August 26, 2021
World Service

This Week's Quotation: There is another dimension to the [spiritual] journey—the mystery of how our individual light relates to the light of the whole. When consciously recognized, this hidden aspect of spiritual life orients the seeker away from a solely...
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Posted: August 19, 2021
Restoring Peace

This Week's Quotation: I will forgive and see this differently. These words give you power over all events that seem to have power over you. Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power...
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Posted: August 12, 2021
Overcoming the Personal Self

This Week’s Quotation: Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ~ St. Francis of Assisi Overcoming the Personal Self Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator Transcending the personal self...
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Posted: August 5, 2021
A Merry Heart

This Week’s Quotation: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 17:22 A Merry Heart Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I’m certain we all know what a broken spirit feels...
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Posted: July 29, 2021
Awakened Living

This Week's Quotation: Don't worry if your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? The Source is within you, and this whole world...
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Posted: July 22, 2021
Sacred Activism

This Week's Quotation: But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee...
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Posted: July 15, 2021
Gratitude Fest

This Week’s Quotation: To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us—and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love; every moment of existence is...
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Posted: July 8, 2021
Mind Matters

This Week’s Quotation: The mind is everything. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a...
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Posted: July 1, 2021
The Sacredness of Life

This Week's Quotation: Learn to turn to each person as the most sacred person on Earth, to each moment as the most sacred moment that has ever been given to us. Then perhaps we are awake a bit more,...
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Posted: June 24, 2021
The Treasure in Your Heart

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves...
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Posted: June 17, 2021
Pilgrimage for Peace

This Week’s Quotation: When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love....
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Posted: June 10, 2021
True Vision

This Week’s Quotation: God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. Nothing is separate. I am determined to see as God sees. The salvation of the world depends on my reversal of thinking. In my...
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Posted: June 3, 2021
Carrier of Love

This Week’s Quotation: If our hearts and actions are inspired by charity, by divine love, then our communication will be touched by God’s own power. Love is the only light that can constantly illuminate a world grown dim. ~...
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Posted: May 27, 2021
The Choice for Love

This Week’s Quotation: Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 1 John 4:7 The Choice for Love Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator Choosing...
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Posted: May 20, 2021
The Joy of Synergy

This Week's Quotation: Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten—it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging… Nothing is excluded and...
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Posted: May 13, 2021
The Gift of the Present Moment

This Week’s Quotation: The past no longer is. The future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment. ~ Buddha The Gift of the Present Moment...
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Posted: May 6, 2021
An Evolutionary Experiment

This Week's Quotation: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2 An...
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Posted: April 29, 2021
Creation Renewed

This Week’s Quotation: Glorified, immensely glorified art Thou, O my Beloved!... Thou hast made all things to be the revelations of Thy handiwork, the repositories of Thy knowledge, and the treasuries of Thy wisdom. I yield Thee such gratitude...
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Posted: April 22, 2021
Angels Everywhere: Come Forth!

This Week’s Quotation: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Hebrews 13:2 Angels Everywhere: Come Forth! Jerry KvasnickaLet Love Radiate The above admonition makes the correct assumption: there is an angel present in every human...
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Posted: April 15, 2021
Soul Matters

This Week’s Quotation: When God has become the conscious center of one’s life, then, as in a time of civil war, the various citizens of the psyche are forced to take sides. ~ Charles Upton, Day and Night on...
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Posted: April 8, 2021
With Power and Great Glory

This Week’s Quotation: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear,...
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Posted: April 1, 2021
Mind and Breath

This Week's Quotation: We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ~ Buddha (Suddhartha Gautama) Mind and Breath Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator One of the greatest...
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Posted: March 25, 2021
Ebbs and Flows

This Week's Quotation: If you are seeking, seek us with joy, for we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist.Do not go in the...
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Posted: March 18, 2021
For the Love of Nature

This Week's Quotation: Thou shalt not destroy the harmony of the environment. ~ Pope Francis For the Love of Nature Jerry KvasnickaBless a tree today Pope Francis has proposed the above quote as the eleventh commandment. I certainly...
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Posted: March 11, 2021
Sustained Attunement

This Week's Quotation: The peace of God is shining in me now. The light cannot be lost. It came with me from my Source. The peace of God is shining in me now and from my heart extends around...
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Posted: February 25, 2021
Lenten Blessings

This Week’s Quotation: During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference. Lent comes providentially to awaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. ~ Pope Francis Lenten Blessings Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator I write...
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Posted: February 18, 2021
World Unity

This Week's Quotation O Thou kind Lord! Unite all. Let the religions agree and make the nations one so that they may see each other as one family and the whole earth as one home. May they all live...
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Posted: February 11, 2021
Knowing Versus Knowing About

This Week's Quotation: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free ~ John 8:32 Knowing Versus Knowing About Jerry KvasnickaLife is Radiance In this statement to a group of Jews who were open...
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Posted: February 4, 2021
Faith is a Verb

This Week's Quotation: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty will say to the Lord: “My refuge and my fortress; my God in whom I trust.” For he...
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Posted: January 21, 2021
Breakdown to Breakthrough

This Week’s Quotation: Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving...
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Posted: January 14, 2021
The Power of Prayer

This Week's Quotation: Your Lord says, “Call on Me; I will answer your prayer.” ~ Islam Qur’an 40.60 Lord of creation! No one other than thee pervades all these that have come into being. May that be ours for which...
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Posted: December 31, 2020
Make My Heart His Abode

This Week's Quotation: May the Lord of Lords, Mahavira, whom all the hosts of saints keep in mind, all the rulers of men and angels praise, and all the scriptures—Vedas, Puranas, and Sastras—extol, make my heart his abode. May...
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Posted: December 24, 2020
Faithful Expectation

This Week’s Quotation: Christmas isn’t just a temporal celebration or the memory of a beautiful event; Christmas is more...Christmas is an encounter. As we progress through the season of Advent, we go by this road to meet the Lord....
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Posted: December 17, 2020
The Self Within All Beings

This Week's Quotation: He is the one God, hidden in all beings, all-pervading, the Self within all beings, watching over all works, dwelling in all beings, the witness, the perceiver, the only one, free from qualities. ~ Upanishad 6.11...
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Posted: December 10, 2020
True Silence

This Week’s Quotation: True silence is the rest of the mind; and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~ William Penn True Silence OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Laurence Mendes, Bromyard, England"The Art...
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Posted: December 3, 2020
Tao Gives Birth to One

This Week's Quotation: Tao gives birth to One,One gives birth to Two,The Two gives birth to Three,The Three gives birth to all things.~ Lao Tzu Tao Gives Birth to One David KarchereAuthor, Becoming a SunSunrise Ranch Spiritual Director...
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Posted: November 25, 2020
Connectedness

This Week's Quotation: Humankind is but one thread within the great web of life. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~ Chief Seattle of the Suquamish and Duwamish Tribes...
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Posted: November 19, 2020
Bridging

This Week’s Quotation: Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter… What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle… When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re...
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Posted: October 29, 2020
Grace

This Week’s Quotation: If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would be impossible. For hope would be forever satisfied; despair of any kind unthinkable. His grace is His answer to all despair, for in...
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Posted: October 22, 2020
Justice

This Week’s Quotation: Let justice well up like water, and righteousness like a flowing stream. Book of Amos 5:24 Justice Karen BoyettSoul Care Facilitator The Prophet Amos of the Hebrew Scriptures is a prophet of social justice. Justice...
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Posted: October 8, 2020
Emptiness

This Week’s Quotation: Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness; emptiness is exactly form. Sensation, conception, discrimination, and consciousness are also like this. ~ An excerpt from an English translation of the Buddhist...
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Posted: October 1, 2020
Radiate Your Brilliant Light

This Week’s Quotation: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it...
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Posted: September 24, 2020
You Are as God Created You

This Week’s Quotation: O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever… The Lord is on my side; I will not fear… The Lord is my strength and song… This is the...
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Posted: September 17, 2020
Sovereignty

This Week’s Quotation: We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back...
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Posted: September 10, 2020
Divine Order

This Week’s Quotation: Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ~ Luke 12:32 Divine Order Terri McCartneySoul Care Facilitator It is a time of enormous uncertainty in...
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Posted: September 3, 2020
We Are a Garden

This Week’s Quotation: Consider the flowers of a garden. Though differing in kind, color, form, and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the...
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Posted: August 27, 2020
God in Costume

This Week’s Quotation: Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, Confucius was asked for a rule of practice for one's life. He answered, "One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct...loving-kindness. Do not do to others...
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Posted: August 20, 2020
How Good and Pleasant It Is

This Week's Quotation: Hineh mah tov umah na’im shevet achim gam yachad! Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for people to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1 How Good and Pleasant It Is Karen BoyettSoul Care...
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Posted: August 12, 2020

Novalis Ubuntu
Fundraiser

The Novalis Ubuntu Institute was founded in 1983 with the purpose of making a creative contribution to the educational, social and cultural challenges of our times.

Sunrise Ranch is partnering with the Novalis Ubuntu Institute, in Cape Town, South Africa, to raise funds for these emergency needs:

EMERGENCY FUNDING TO BRIDGE COVID19 LOCKDOWN ANTICIPATED LOSS OF INCOME ($25, 000 USD)
PURCHASE THE LAND ON WHICH NOVALIS CENTRE STANDS ($83, 000)
REPAIR AND UPGRADE THE EXISTING BUILDING ($66, 375)
RAISE SEED CAPITAL FOR NEW NOVALIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ($165, 935)

The Novalis Ubuntu programs have positively impacted communities locally and internationally, with a key focus on child-centered innovative and accelerated-learning programs already successfully taken by over 100, 000 teachers and community leaders. The core focus is empowering and strengthening the creativity and resilience of dedicated men and women who are educating and caring for vulnerable children living in impoverished communities.

Novalis Centre is situated in Cape Town, South Africa, in close proximity to public transport and is accessible to all communities in the Western Cape.

The Novalis Centre hosts training and community enrichment programs and activities in a uniquely designed Resource Centre, with six meeting and training rooms, a large assembly space catering up to 250 people.

In addition, there is an Information Centre, library and café with ITC networking space; our organic vegetable garden supplies our kitchen and an additional teaching site. Novalis hosts regular markets, concerts and a multitude of civil society gatherings.

We hope you’ll join us in supporting this important center.

Here’s an informational brochure that you can download.

Here’s how you can donate:

Please make the check payable to: “Emissaries of Divine Light” with the memo, “Friends of Novalis” donation.

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