Spiritual Essence: August 2013

SPIRITUAL ESSENCE:

Focusing on the essence of spirituality from all times, places, cultures…and beyond. Serving and cultivating the innate, inherent spiritual nature contained within all: the religious, the non-religious, the spiritual but not religious, the atheist, the agnostic, the mystic; whatever one does or does not consider oneself. We are beings at many different levels with many different aspects: physical, energy/life force, mind, intellect, emotion; but at our deepest common core, we are all spiritual beings. We all yearn to love and be loved, to nurture and be nurtured, to express and serve and realize each of our unique destinies. We can all help each other along our individual journeys, united by our common needs and yearnings.

Quote of the Week #156 - Listening/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance

Quote of the Week #156 - Listening/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance

Every one who is thirsty, come and drink. He who has no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. Let your soul delight in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, that your soul will live…

--Isaiah 55:1-3, The Living Torah translation by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Quote of the Week #13 - The Mind is Like a Parachute

The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open.

--Frank Zappa

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Quote of the Week #12 - On Course

I know I’m on course. I know the destination is the horizon. But I sure don’t know the details along the way.

--Steven J. Gold

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Quote of the Week #11 - Myth and History

For some inexplicable reason, we have a hard time reading the Jewish scriptures as a people’s story, a people’s mythology, and instead read it as a people’s history. Myth is not fact; it is truth. By seeing it only as fact, we neglect its entire purpose, its truth, its wisdom.

--from The Judeo-Christian Fiction, by Rabbi Gershon Winkler

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Quote of the Week #10 - Consciousness and the Human Brain

Neuroscientists still can’t agree on how to define consciousness, or how it arises in the human brain.

--from an article in The Week magazine about “Legal rights for apes”, August 9, 2013, discussing whether apes have any semblance of consciousness similar to human consciousness

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