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 Expanding Fields of Possibility Sometimes, we
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, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from
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 Loving Beyond Difference What if
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 when we recognize our shared humanity.
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 Christmas was canceled in Bethlehem this year. Tens of thousands of lives have been lost
This Week’s Quotation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus Solstice Blessings Those of us who live in the northern hemisphere are sharing in the sacred energy of the Winter
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 do affects the whole world. When
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 If ever there was a time for the work
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 the poisons of faultfinding and grumbling.
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 Children find it easy to believe in miracles,
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 happens to my nation happens to
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 Amid the cacophony of life, often shaped by