Spiritual Essence: September 2015

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 24, 2015

Quote of the Week #70

You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does…

You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

--Dag Hammarskjöld

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Quote of the Week #69 - Joy Despite the Facts

I love being with those who have a joyful heart even though they have considered the facts.

-- Jack Kornfield, quoted in Shambhala Sun magazine, March 2015 Issue

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Quote of the Week #68 - One's Lost Self

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

-- Brendan Francis

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