Spiritual Essence: June 2014

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

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Quote of the Week #35 - What God Does and Doesn't Do

I don’t believe that God causes mental retardation in children, or chooses who should suffer muscular dystrophy. The God I believe in does not send us the problem; He gives us the strength to cope with the problem.

--from When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

New Audio: Interview with Gareth Young/NewMindSet on my early "Walkabout" and other subjects

I was recently interviewed by Gareth Young for his web-based initiative on creating a New Business Mindset. For a little introduction, click here: http://garethjyoung.com/stevegold/

To go straight to the recording, click here:

http://content.blubrry.com/newmindset/SteveGold.mp3

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Quote of the Week #34 - Mysticism and Atheism Shake Hands

Nonduality may be said to be the place where mysticism and atheism shake hands. The cosmology may be identical, as there are no puppet-masters pulling the strings of our reality. Yet the stage is now a cathedral.

--Jay Michaelson, Everything Is God; The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism, page 30

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