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Living Deeply

July 19, 2017

Living Deeply Weekly Blog Friends, The Institute of Noetic Sciences conducted ten years of research on the process of transformation…. They interviewed spiritual teachers, renowned scholars, and practitioners representing a diverse range of transformative practices…. <read more…>

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Desire 2

July 19, 2017

Desire 2 Weekly Blog Friends, Here are some more excerpts on the topic of desire from different faith traditions. While they may seem to be contradictory to the previous blog…. <read more…>

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Spiritual Freedom

July 6, 2017

Spiritual Freedom Weekly Blog Friends, Here is a bonus excerpt to celebrate July 4th Independence Day on the topic of Spiritual Freedom from Jennifer Hadley’s “Daily Shot of Spiritual Espresso” blog…. <read more…>

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Desire

July 2, 2017

Desire Weekly Blog Friends, Here is an excerpt on the topic of desire from Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery, Part One: The Way of the Heart…. <read more…>

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Spirituality of the Beatitudes

July 1, 2017

A Spirituality of the Beatitudes Weekly Blog Friends, Here is an excerpt from Franciscan monk, Richard Rohr. Drawing from his own Franciscan heritage and other wisdom traditions, Richard Rohr reframes neglected or misunderstood teachings to reveal….. <read more…>

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This Moment Perfect Teacher

June 19, 2017

This Moment is the Perfect Teacher Weekly Blog Friends, Here is an excerpt from Pema Chodron’s book entitled When Things Fall Apart. Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and student of Tibetan teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche…. <read more…>

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Nonjudgment

June 19, 2017

Nonjudgment Weekly Blog Friends, Here is an excerpt from Jennifer Hadley’s daily Spiritual Espresso blog for June 6, 2017 entitled “Living in Truth” (http://jenniferhadley.com/2017/06/truth/)…. <read more…>

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Body, Mind, Spirit

June 19, 2017

Body, Mind, and Spirit Weekly Blog Friends, Here is an excerpt from Paramahansa Yogananda in Journey to Self-Realization Vol. 3 taken from a lecture delivered in 1929 entitled “Resurrection: Renewing and Transforming Your Body, Mind, and Spirit”…. <read more…>

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Forgiveness

June 19, 2017

Forgiveness Weekly Blog Friends, This post comes from commentary on Lesson #22 of A Course in Miracles from http://www.circleofa.org. ACIM has a different view of forgiveness than we commonly understand…. <read more…>

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Mercy

May 22, 2017

Mercy Weekly Blog Friends, Here is an excerpt of an interview from The Washington Post April 14 by Emily McFarlan Miller entitled: Anne Lamott: ‘I just think mercy is our only hope.’…. <read more…>

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“If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.” St. Bartholomew

St. Bartholomew

“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.” Rumi

Rumi

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton

Merton

Prayer of all healers and lightworkers:
“I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.” ACIM

A Course of Miracles

“Throw off all thought of imaginary things and stand firm in that which you are.” Kabir

Kabir

“When the Buddha taught, he … taught that there is a kind of innocent misunderstanding that we all share, something that can be turned around, corrected, and seen through, as if we were in a dark room and someone showed us where the light switch was. It isn’t a sin that we are in the dark room. It’s just an innocent situation, but how fortunate that someone shows us where the light switch is.” Pema Chodron

Chodron

May my focus on the light within be as dedicated as the attention my dog gives to his tennis ball. Unknown

Dog Devotion

“Let me be Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, or Sufi; I care not what my religion, my race, my creed, or my color be, if only I can win my way to Thee! But let me be none of these, if it enmesh me in labyrinthine ways of religious formalities. Let me travel the royal road of realization which leads to Thee.” Paramhansa Yogananda

Yogananda

“The power of the words I AM can change how you see yourself and how you see others. We have been conditioned to believe that who we are is ordinary—that who we are is what we have, what we do, what people think of us, what we own, and none of this is who we really are. Who we are is infinite light divine creation, and that creation is within all of us.” Wayne Dyer

Dyer

Truth, or awakening, is simply the recognition of what is already perfectly in place. It is not a doctrine and it is not a creation. It is the most profound and joyous discovery a human being will make. Mooji

Mooji

“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.”
H.H. the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow

“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing – that when we look for what’s best in a person… we are participating in something sacred.” Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers

“If the you of five years ago doesn’t consider the you of today a heretic, then you are not growing spiritually.” Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

Everything in your story is constantly changing, including the story you tell about who you are.

Don Miguel Ruiz

“We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.”
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