Spiritual Essence: November 2016

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, November 17, 2016

Quote of the Week $99 - Existential Sweeping Love

Watch, receive, and enjoy as you allow yourself to become aware that the love that is inherent in Reality is bringing you into existence, flowing into you, and sweeping you away, again and again, at each moment.

--Anonymous Sufi Contemplation, conveyed by Sufi scholar and practitioner, Alan Godlas

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Quote of the Week #98 - Love Is Powerful

Love is so powerful that tiny little doses of it are enough to overcome the pain of the worst things life can dish out.

--Rachel Reiland

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Quote of the Week #97 - You Wake Up!

Beyond our dualistic view of life exists one Ocean of Truth. Within that Truth, human nature can experience unity without loss of unique distinction. You can experience a stillness beyond reactivity. You can live from kindness. You can embrace impermanence, appreciating the arising and letting go within each moment. You recognize cling and aversion as the cause of all suffering. You wake up!

The Nine Gates Mystery School invites today’s students into an embodied journey of this awakening – through birth, death of the false idea of self and a rebirth into an awakened state of Consciousness. After one taste of this Ocean, you won’t stop drinking until you become the Ocean itself.

--Ad Copy for Nine Gates Mystery School in Spirituality & Health, November-December 2016 issue

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