March 29, 2015

Joy seems to be a state or quality of being…an internal component, independent from externalities.

March 22, 2105

What does a life that is filled with the fruit of peace look like?

If we are not sowing more peace in the world, think about the alternative seeds we might be sowing: discord, division, animosity, strife, contention, conflict, tension and intolerance to name a few.

March 15, 2015

Kindness – is an act or behavior that demonstrates concern

Goodness is doing what is right (not moral actions, but in our interactions and exchanges with others).

Kindness is doing something above and beyond…that is why it is often called a wonderful gift.

March 1, 2015

The bible talks about ways & behaviors that are more connected to our fleshly nature/bodies and ways & behaviors that are more connected to our spiritual nature/souls.Add News Story here

February 15, 2014

Discussing passages of the “Pity Prayer” from Paulo Coehlo's book The Pilgrimage, we will observe the dualism that is ever-present in our attitudes, ideas, conclusions and even our spirituality. 

February 8, 2015

“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman

February 2, 2015

In many Muslim cultures, when you want to ask them how they’re doing, you ask: in Arabic, Kayf haal-ik? or, in Persian, Haal-e shomaa chetoreh? How is your haal? What is this haal that you inquire about? It is the transient state of one’s heart. In reality, we ask, “How is your heart doing at this very moment, at this breath?”

January 25, 2015

“Our whole business in this life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.”  Saint Augustine

December 21, 2014

Equality: the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

December 14, 2014

Where do you need healing in your life?

What kinds of healing do the people in “your world” need? 

December 7, 2014

FORGIVE

verb (used with object), forgave, forgiven, forgiving.

1. to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.

2. to give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.).

3. to grant pardon to (a person).

4. to cease to feel resentment against:

to forgive one's enemies.

5. to cancel an indebtedness or liability of:

to forgive the interest owed on a loan.

verb (used without object), forgave, forgiven, forgiving.

6. to pardon an offense or an offender.

November 16, 2014

“All saying must be balanced with unsaying and knowing must be humbled by unknowing.  Without this balance, religion invariably becomes arrogant, exclusionary, and even violent.” Richard Rohr

November 9, 2014

Howard Thurman  was the John the Baptist to Martin Luther King Jr., the grandfather of African American nonviolence, a Gandhian, Christian, mystic, poet, and preacher.

Like Tolystoy he became a Christian mystic, making a large distinction between "the religion of Jesus," which "offers me very many ways out of the world's disorders"--and Christianity. He felt God directly in nature, much like Emerson's "Original Experience"; a Chrisitian beyond Christianity: "the things that are true in any religious experience are to be found in that religious experience precisely because they are true; they are not true simply because they are found in that religious experience...this is not to say that all religions are one and the same, but it is to say that the essence of religious experience is unique, comprehensible, and not delimiting."