By Lisa Jo Rudy — 2019
Ancient and Modern Mysticism and Mystics.
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Nicholas Kristoff interviews Serene Jones.
God manifests divinity by way of people. We are the windows through which heaven shines into the world.
Before we claim that spiritual experiences heal, we must agree on what a spiritual experience is.
Psychotherapist, professor, and author Carolyn Baker joins Terry for a sober, deep, and instructive conversation to consider our planetary predicament as a sacred rite of passage that necessitates a “collective descent into the darkness,” the possibility of our collective “sacred demise”,...
I wonder how the world would be, how we would live, how children would learn if we intentionally cultivated the spirit of being kind each day. In a world filled with fear and cruelty, we are itching for an outbreak of this characteristic.
There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.
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The biggest mistake we can make, according to the Buddha, is to discount or minimize our suffering. Why? Because it is the fiery gate through which we must pass to engage the spiritual path.
Saying you’re too agitated to meditate or pray is like saying you’re too sick to see a doctor or too tired to take a nap.
I’ve recently had conversation about loneliness and how it relates to spiritual growth. All our lives we are conditioned to seek external validation to give us our sense of self-worth.
Mirabai Starr, who lives in the mountains of Northern New Mexico, is an author and highly sought-after speaker on the teachings of the mystics and contemplative practice.