Spiritual Essence: September 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, September 26, 2013

Quote of the Week #17 - The Wanderer Who Is Never Lost

The sage is a wanderer who is never lost; every step is both departure and arrival.

--Rabbi Rami Shapiro, from The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Quote of the Week #16 - Nothingness

The same Nothingness that torments the existentialists delights the Zen Masters. There is but a hair’s breadth between desperation, anguish and terror on the one hand and awe, beauty, wonder, joy and love on the other hand. The trick is to find the right hair to blow you in the right direction – to suffer death and rebirth at the hands of the same Magician – Nothingness. It’s a hair’s breadth away, yet at the same time, it is a million miles away.

--From Writings of the Dawn, the Spiritual Journey of a Baby Boomer,

by Steven J. Gold

Friday, September 13, 2013

Quotes of the Week #15 - Every Form

The best form in which to worship God is every form.

--Neem Karoli Baba

Which aspect of God do you prefer, the personal or the impersonal?

--Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa

Friday, September 6, 2013

Quote of the Week #14 - Sexual Orientation and the Soul

The soul is sexless and a person is not the body. It is natural for one soul to love another soul regardless of the gender of the physical body. Sexual preference does not reflect on the spiritual development of the soul.

--Master Choa Kuk Sui

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