Spiritual Essence: June 2019

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

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Quote of the Week #140 - Spiritual Freedom, Slavery and Service

Quote of the Week #140 - Spiritual Freedom, Slavery and Service

We are free…we do not wish anything. We are not after powers. We have no desires. Our will becomes one with the will of God. We are instruments in His hands. We are called slaves of the One and servants of people. God has also a title, a name; it is His favorite name which He likes very much: “The Servant of Servants.”

--Bhai Sahib, as quoted by Irina Tweedie in Daughter of Fire; A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Quote of the Week #139 - The Purpose of Spiritual Training

Quote of the Week #139 - The Purpose of Spiritual Training

The goal of every path of yoga is to lead a guided life – guided by that in us which is eternal. To be able to listen to this guidance is the whole purpose of spiritual training.

--Bhai Sahib, as quoted by Irina Tweedie in Daughter of Fire; A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master

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