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HERE ARE LINKS TO INSPIRATION & ILLUMINATION & INFORMATION ON 101 PIONEERING TEACHERS OF INTERSPIRITUAL WISDOM & PRACTICES
A teacher
comes, they say, when you are ready.
And if you
ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly.
But you have
to be quiet to hear.
-- Robin Wall
Kimmerer
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S&P = Spirituality & Practice
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SP = Spiritual Paths Institute
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CAC = Center for Action & Contemplation
+ The Spirituality and Practice Teachers Project is very inclusive of a wide range of teachers, living and dead, mostly twentieth century and now.
+ Spirituality & Practice offers a Multifaith Teachers page. There is considerable overlap with my selection of teachers.
+ I know there are hundreds, even thousands of people who could be called InterSpiritual pioneers and the guiding teachers of The New Faith for the New Earth. In his chapter on InterSpirituality in A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life, Wayne Teasdale named nine “Interspiritual Visionaries.” These are Abhishiktananda, Ammachi, Bede Griffiths, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Keating, Thomas Merton, Raimon Panikkar, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, David Steindl-Rast. Here are 101 Pioneering Teachers of InterSpiritual Wisdom & Practices who have made a significant impact on me and many as we look for inspiration, illumination, and information on the journey toward creating The New Earth (in alphabetical order):
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ABHISHIKTANANDA (or HENRI LE SAUX ) 1910-1973
It is wonderful to pass through such an experience
which makes you find full peace and happiness beyond all situations, even of
death and life. Life cannot be the same any more, because beyond life we have
found the Awakening.
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Abhishiktandanda.org
| Quotes
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Monastic
Interreligious Dialogue Page
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Poetry-Chaikhana:
Sacred Poetry Web Page for Abhishiktananda
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S&P
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S&P
Book Review of Swami Abhishiktananda: Essential Writings | Excerpt
on Devotion
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S&P
Book Review of The Cave of the Heart: The Life of Swami Abhishiktananda
by Shirley du Boulay | Excerpt
on Transformation
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Videos > Youtube
Search | Interview
with Raimon Panikkar
AMMACHI or SRI MATA
AMRITANANDAMAYI DEVI
Happiness
depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.
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Amma.org
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World Religions and Spirituality Project Page
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S&P Book Review of Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart by Janine Canan | Excerpt on Grace
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S&P Book Review of Amma: Healing the Heart of the World by Judith Cornell
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Quotes
> AZquotes
Compassion
is not an option. It is the key to survival.
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Charter for Compassion | Quotes | TED
Prize page | Ted Talk link >
In a 2008 Ted Talk, Karen Armstrong offered the vision and the motivation for
this expanding global community dedicated to building compassion among all
religions and cultures.
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Quotes
I directly
experience myself how?
As the light
which illumines all experience,
the light of
awareness that illumines
my world, my
body, my mind,
my personal
history, even my ego.
I am the
unseen seer that sees all things.
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S&P
Search | E-Courses
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http://www.theinterfaithobserver.org/contributors/2016/11/23/swami-atmarupananda
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S&P
InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes his teaching
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S&P
Book Review of The Common Heart: An Experience of Interreligious Dialogue
which Includes his contribution
Sacred
light pervades
Me
through and through,
And
bliss descends
Like
mountain dew.
Radiating
out,
I now
impart
Rainbows
of healing
From
my heart.
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Spiritual
Paths Institute | Books | InterSpiritual
Meditation Course | Mandala Course
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Videos > Youtube: Edward
Bastian Films | Vimeo: Edward W.
Bastian
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S&P
InterSpiritual Meditation E-Course is a 42 part course taught by Ed
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S&P
InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes his teaching
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Goodreads
page on Mandala: Creating an Authentic Spiritual Path: An InterSpiritual
Process
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S&P
book review of Living Fully, Dying Well
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Ed’s video with the
InterSpiritual Meditation Verses > You can hear Ed saying the verses for
each step and singing the ISM chant.
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S&P
search | Books
| Traditions
The major block to compassion is the judgment
in our minds.
Judgment is the mind's primary tool of
separation.
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S&P Book Reviews of The Gentle Smile:
Practicing Oneness in Daily Life
It is important
that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by
which we are nourished, guided, healed — the planet, however, which we have
abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial
exploitation.
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S&P Book Review of The Dream of the
Earth | Excerpt on Reverence
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Quotes > Goodreads
| AZquotes
JOHN BIERSDORF
1930-2020
Compassion is
expressed in gentleness. When I think of persons I know who model for me the
depths of spiritual life, I am struck by their gentleness. Their eyes
communicate the residue of solitary battles with angels, the costs of caring
for others, the deaths of ambition and ego, and the peace that comes from
having very little left to lose in this life.
/ They are gentle because they have honestly faced the struggles given
to them and have learned the hard way that personal survival is not the point.
Their care is gentle because their self-aggrandizement is no longer at stake.
There is nothing in it for them. Their vulnerability has been stretched to
clear-eyed sensitivity to others and truly selfless love.
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Founder and Past President and Dean of Ecumenical
Theological Seminary of Detroit MI
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Books > Goodreads Search | wipfandstock.com
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Goodreads page for Infinite Reach: Spirituality
in a Scientific World | Amazon page | B&N page
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“Church Order and the Emerging Future” 1971
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Above quote in Sojo Voice of the Day
BLACK ELK 1863-1950
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its
powers,
and when they realize that at the center of
the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.
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Goodreads Page on Black Elk Speaks
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To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic.
True wildness is a love of nature, a delight
in silence,
a voice free to say spontaneous things,
and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the
unknown.
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S&P Teachers Project | Books | Poetry |
Video Clips
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S&P Book Review of News of the Universe:
Poems of Twofold Consciousness
| Excerpt on Vision | Excerpt on Connections | Excerpt on X-The Mystery
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LAURENCE BOLDT
Without
self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy.
Without
service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
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S&P
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S&P
Book Review of The Tao of Abundance: Eight Ancient Principles for Abundant
Living
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S&P
Book Review of Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to
Creative Career Design | Excerpt
on Beauty
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S&P
Book Review of Zen Soup: Tasty Morsels of Wisdom from Great Minds East and
West
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| AZquotes
MARCUS
BORG 1942-2015
Spirituality
combines awareness, intention and practice.
I define it
as becoming conscious of and intentional about
a deepening
relationship with God.
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The Marcus J
Borg Foundation | Quotes | Books
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Teachers Project | Quotes | Video
Clips
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God is never
closer than when the space between two hearts narrows.
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Clips
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S&P
Book Review of A Woman’s Journey to God | Excerpt
on Grace
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All will
come of its own accord in good time with abundant fullness,
so long as
one does not attempt to hoard or cling.
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cynthiabourgeault.org
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Clips
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S&P
E-Course > A course she teaches on Thomas Keating’s The Secret Embrace
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S&P
InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes her teaching
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Video:
Cynthia Interviews Thomas Keating
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Youtube Channel | YouTube
search
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Quotes > Goodreads
Radical
Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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tarabrach.com | R-A-I N
method >
Recognize. Allow. Investigate. Nurture | Blog Page on R-A-I-N
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes
| Books
| Video Clips | Audio Clips
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S&P Practice Feature: The Sacred Pause Practice
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S&P Book Review of Radical
Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha | Excerpt on Being Present
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CAC page which includes R-A-I-N Method
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Youtube
Channel | Youtube Search
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Vulnerability
is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
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| BrainyQuote
FREDERIC & MARY ANN BRUSSAT
Begin with
what is right in front of you.
Have both
pride and humility.
Be assertive
and yielding.
You are much
more and much less than you probably think you are.
Relax. This,
the Creator reminds us, is good.
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S&P Page: About
Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat
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Ten
Minute Video Introducing the Limitless Resources of Spiritualty &
Practice
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Spirituality
And Practice is the amazing website created by the Brussats. Here are some of the topics you will find: 37 Practices | Daily Practice | Daily Quote | Daily Reading |Teacher of the Day | Values & Visions Guides | Book Reviews | Film Reviews | E-Courses | Living Teachers | Remembering Masters | Blogs | Traditions | Practicing Democracy
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They have been my spirituality and
culture guides for more than 4 decades.
I often refer to Spirituality and Practice as the
best website in the universe. You may
find yourself staying at this stop for many hours or days or years. S&P can help
you answer important questions like: How do you define spirituality? How is your understanding of spirituality
changing? What books, movies, songs, causes, relationships are informing you,
inspiring you, comforting you, challenging you?You won’t be
disappointed. These 2 pages are a good place to begin your exploration of this
fantastic and fascinating resource for seekers of wisdom > What
is Spirituality? | What
is Everyday Spirituality?
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Celebrating
Five Decades of the work of F&M Brussat at S&P and its predecessors
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Progressive Christianity Article on the Brussats
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Youtube
Search for Frederic Brussat | Youtube
Search for Mary Ann Brussat
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Spiritual Literacy Youtube Channel | Youtube
Search for Spirituality & Practice
FREDERICK BUECHNER 1926-2022
My story is important not because it is mine,
God knows,
but because if I tell it anything like right,
the chances are you will recognize that in many
ways it is also yours.
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books
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Youtube Channel | Youtube Search
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL
1904-1987
A myth has to work the way a picture works:
either you say, “Aha!” or somebody has to
explain it to you.
And if it has to be explained to you, it’s not
working.
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Joseph Campbell Foundation | Quotes |
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To be contemplative
we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the
universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God. We must become aware of the
sacred in every element of life. We must bring beauty to birth in a poor and
plastic world. We must restore the human community. We must grow in concert
with the God who is within. We must be healers in a harsh society.
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips
| E-Courses
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S&P Book Review of The Monastic Heart: 50
Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life | Excerpt on Zeal
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S&P Book Review of Illuminated Life: Monastic
Wisdom for Seekers of Light
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
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S&P Film Review of Hallelujah: Leonard
Cohen, A Journey, A Song
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S&P Naming the Days Feature: Birthday of
Leonard Cohen, September 21
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RABBI DAVID
COOPER 1939-2020
There are at
least four essential elements
composing the
foundation of the enlightenment process:
purification,
concentration, effort, and mastery.
It is helpful
for us to evaluate our practice
by the
criteria of one or more of these essential characteristics.
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Quotes > AZquotes
HARVEY COX
Not to
decide is to decide
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Harvard Divinity School Faculty Page
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Search
| Books
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S&P
review of The Future of Faith | Excerpt
on Faith
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Goodreads
pages on The Future of Faith
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John Goerzen’s excellent Review of The
Future of Faith
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The planet does not need more successful
people.
The planet desperately needs more
peacemakers, healers,
restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all
kinds.
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His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet website | Books | Teachings | Messages | Videos
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes
| Books
| Films
| Video Clips | Interviews
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S&P Film Review of Mission: Joy –
Finding Happiness in Troubled Times + This is a documentary featuring the delightful
meeting of The Dalai Lama and ArchBishop Desmond Tutu
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InterSpiritual Discussion with His Holiness the
Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu: Part 1
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Quotes >
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RAM DASS 1931-2019
I'm explicitly making my life a teaching, by
expressing the lessons that I've learned through it so it can become a map for
other people. Everybody's life could be like that, if they choose to make it
so; choose to reflect what they've been through and to share it with others.
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ramdass.org | Quotes | Books &
Media
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S&P
Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips | Audio Clips
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Youtube Channel | Youtube Search
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Quotes > Gratefulness.org | Goodreads | AZquotes
ANTHONY DeMELLO
1931-1987
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no
longer able to see it.
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DeMello Spirituality Center | Books
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes
| Books
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Quotes > Goodreads
WAYNE DYER 1940-2015
Give yourself a
gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you.
Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This
five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus
your life in awe.
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes
| Books
| Video Clips
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Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote
ALBERT EINSTEIN 1879-1959
My religion
consists of a humble admiration
of the
illimitable superior spirit
who reveals
himself in the slight details
we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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S&P
Search | Quotes | Books
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S&P
Naming the Days: Einstein’s Birthday -- March 14 -- including Quotes
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S&P
Book Review of Einstein’s God by Krista
Tippett
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EKNATH EASWARAN
1910-1999
Memorize a passage on kindness, on goodness,
and then drive it inward every day,
deeper and deeper into consciousness.
If you persist, you will become that kind,
good person
on which you meditate; it cannot fail.
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Blue Mountain Center of Meditation
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes
| Books
| Practices
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S&P Feature: Ten Reasons Why Gandhi Is My Hero by Frederic
Brussat includes many
Easwaran quotes
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Youtube Channel | Youtube Search
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Quotes > Goodreads
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Meditation is
a way of slowing down
so as to
descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment,
where God lies
waiting to grant you
a deep
experience of your eternal oneness with God.
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A week of CAC Meditations
on Exploring the Mystics
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S&P Book
Review of The Contemplative Heart
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S&P
Review of an Audio Retreat > Christian Meditation: Entering the Mind of
Christ
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MATTHEW FOX
Postdenominationalism is about pluralism and ecumenism in religion.
It is about stretching our piecemeal religious boundaries and setting aside our
boxes to the extent that they are neither challenging us nor nourishing us
deeply anymore, or to the extent that they are interfering with the pressing
earth issues of our time.
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes
| Books
| Video Clips | Audio Clips
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MOHANDAS GANDHI 1869-1948
The enemy is
fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear.
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S&P Search | Quotes | Books
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S&P Book Review of Modern Spiritual Masters: Writings on Contemplation
and Compassion by Robert Ellsberg. Gandhi is one of the 12 Masters.
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S&P Feature: Ten Reasons Why Gandhi Is My Hero by Frederic Brussat
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Quotes
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The universe, and almost everything in it,
is conspiring to make you happy.
It is doing it very sneakily, so we don’t
usually see it,
but that just means that the conspiracy is
wide and deep.
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https://drdouglas.org/ | Bio
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Finding the Freedom to Get Unstuck and Be
Happier Goodreads Page
You talk when you cease to be at peace
with your thoughts.
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| Films
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S&P Book Review of Kahlil Gibran’s
Little Book of Love by
Neil Douglas-Klotz | Excerpt on Love
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S&P Book Review of Kahlil Gibrans
Little Book of Wisdom by
Neil Douglas-Klotz | Excerpt on Reverence
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S&P Book Review of Kahlil Gibran's
Little Book of Secrets by
Neil Douglas-Klotz | Excerpt on Teachers
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S&P Book Review of In Search of a
Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran by Paul-Gordon Chandler
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I began as a
seeker and remain one to this day. The psalm that says: 'Seek God's face
always' has come to mean in my own prayer-life that the quest itself is
endless, that the 'face of God' is to be found within the seeking, not only as
a final goal.
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S&P Book Review of Ehyeh: A
Kabbalah for Tomorrow | Excerpt on Meaning
BEDE
GRIFFITHS 1906-1993
When the Jew,
the Christian, the Moslem, the Hindu and the Buddhist open themselves in
prayer, in meditation, to the transcendent mystery, going beyond word, beyond
thought, simply opening themselves to the light, to the truth, to reality, then
meeting takes place. That is where humanity will be united.
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S&P Search | Quotes | Books | Practices
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S&P Naming the Days: Birthday of Bede Griffiths
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S&P Book Review of Bede Griffiths: An Introduction to His Interspiritual
Thought by Wayne Teasdale | Excerpt
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S&P
Book Review of Bede Griffiths: Eassential Writings | Excerpt
on Meaning
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“[Benedictine monk] Bede [Griffiths] felt
that the ultimate significance of the cosmos is a mystical one, in the sense
that the universe itself is a vehicle leading the mind to the Divine. His view
is much like the medieval Franciscan view of creation as a great book from
which we can learn the essentials of being and life. Because of this, science,
as well as both Eastern and Western mysticism, is part of the larger synthesis
that Bede conceived.” — Wayne
Teasdale quoted in The
Other Half of My Soul by Beatrice
Bruteau, editor
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Youtube
Channel | Youtube
Search
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HAFIZ 1325-1390
I wish I could show you,
when you are lonely,
when you are in darkness,
the astonishing light of your own being.
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S&P Book Review of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master by Daniel Ladinsky | Excerpt 1 on Love | Excerpt 2 on Love
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Quotes
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In being
with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be
loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is
most precious today?
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THICH
NHAT HANH 1926-2022
We are here to awaken from our
illusion of separateness.
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S&P
Teachers Project | Quotes | Books
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https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/quotes/quotations/view/7429/spiritual-quotation > On the altar in my hermitage in France
are images of Buddha and Jesus, and every time I light incense, I touch both of
them as my spiritual ancestors. I can do this because of contact with real
Christians. When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition,
you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. This quality
is essential for dialogue. — Thich Nhat Hanh in Living Buddha, Living Christ
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SQ 3/29/19 > https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/quotes/quotations/view/7431/spiritual-quotation
>
Dialogue is not a means for assimilation in the sense that one side expands and
incorporates the other into its "self." Dialogue must be practiced on
the basis of "non-self." We have to allow the good, the beautiful,
and the meaningful in the other's tradition to transform us. — Thich Nhat Hanh
in Living Buddha, Living Christ + Here is my comment
on this on Facebook > “(This) Quote from S&P gets
to the heart of what the world needs now.
The assimilation approach has been the dominant model of colonialism and
a lot of suffering has been the result and it continues to do so with
catastrophic consequences in many ways.”
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When Bayazid Bestami (d. 874), [a] well-known
master, was asked who his master was, he said it was an old woman whom he had
met in the desert. This woman had called him a vain tyrant and showed him why:
by requiring a lion to carry a sack of flour, he was oppressing a creature God
himself had left unburdened, and by wanting recognition for such miracles, he
was showing his vanity. Her words gave him spiritual guidance for some time.
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Women’s Islamic
Initiative in Spirituality & Equality
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books
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S&P
InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes her teaching
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Threshold
Society Youtube Channel | Youtube
Search for Camille Helminski
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Quotes > Goodreads
.. human beings are unaware how far they are
from their Origin. We are suffering from a kind of amnesia. Sufism is meant to
lead us to the realization, not just the opinion, that we suffer this
alienation from Reality. Sufism has two main objectives: to show us to
ourselves as we really are, and to help us develop our true inner being, that
eternal part of ourselves that can know our Origin. The human being who
achieves this with divine help will experience a full life and be a blessing in
this world.
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S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books
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S&P
InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes his teaching
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Threshold
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HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
1098-1179
Everything that is in the heavens, on
earth, and under the earth
is
penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
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S&P Naming the Days: Feast Day of
Saint Hildegard
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Saint
Hildegard’s Community of Austin TX
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ETTY HILLESUM 1914-1943
Through me course wide rivers and in me rise tall
mountains. And beyond the thickets of my agitation and confusion there stretch
the wide plains of my peace and surrender. All landscapes are within me. And
there is room for everything.
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Book Review of Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings by By Annemarie S.
Kidder, Etty Hillesum > The ecumenical mysticism of Holocaust victim Etty
Hilessum whose diaries charted her spiritual course. | Excerpt
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“The
Strangest of Turns: A Message to Americans after the 2016 Election” by
Patricia Campbell Carlson > Taking courage from the gallant heart of Etty
Hillesum
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ALDOUS
HUXLEY 1894-1963
The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the
religion of solitude.
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Brother
Teasdale emphasized the importance of simultaneous individual and collective
interspiritual education. Not every individual might be able to access unity
consciousness at this moment, but the challenge to the religions is to educate
about their shared values and lofty ethical goals, not to emphasize their
differences in terms of theologies, creeds, or apocalyptic scenarios.
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Evolutionary
Institute’s Kurt Johnson Page
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S&P Book Review
of The Coming Interspiritual Age | Excerpt
on Transformation
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S&P
Book Review of Mature InterSpirituality: Wayne Teasdale’s Nine Elements –
And Beyond |
·
It’s
hard to know where to begin to discover organizations, networks, websites, books,
videos and more associated with Kurt. Here are a few > The InterSpiritual Network | Light on Light | Contemplative Alliance | Dawn of InterSpirituality | Evolution Institute | Evolutionary Leaders | Voice America | Synergy Foundation | One Spirit | Unity
Earth |
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Voice
America Episode on Our Moment of Choice
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Goodreads
Page on Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future
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A 2017 article in The Interfaith Observer
> “Becoming
One in the Spirit: The Growing Edge of Interspirituality”
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on Interspirituality
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KABIR 1398-1518
All know that the drop merges into
the ocean,
but few know that the ocean merges
into the drop.
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My shoulder is against
yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
·
If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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Wherever you are is the entry point.
CHARLOTTE SOPHIA KASL 1938-2021
Prepare for
joy –
speak your
truth,
care for
yourself,
expand your
knowledge,
nurture your
friendships,
let people
love you,
take on new
adventures,
go where
your heart leads you.
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Kasl
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A quote with a huge insight > “...patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism
create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency.
Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which
result in fear. This fear is expressed by the dominators through control and
violence, and in subordinated people through passivity and repression of anger.
The external conflict of hierarchy between dominants and subordinates becomes
internalized in individuals, creating personal inner chaos, anxiety and
duality. To quell the inner conflict people resort to addictive substances and
behavior.”
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VALARIE KAUR
Revolutionary
love is a well-spring of care, an awakening to the inherent dignity and beauty
of others and the earth, a quieting of the ego, a way of moving through the
world in relationship, asking: ‘What is your story? What is at stake? What is
my part in your flourishing?’ Loving others, even our opponents, in this way
has the power to sustain political, social and moral transformation. This is
how love changes the world.
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THOMAS KEATING 1923-2018
For human
beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human.
For to
become fully human is to become fully divine.
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KEN
KEYES JR. 1921-1995
A loving
person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
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page on The Hundredth Monkey
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HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN 1882-1927
God breaks
the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
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PIR
VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN 1916-2004
The human
spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.
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Action on behalf of life transforms.
Because the relationship between self and the
world is reciprocal,
it is not a question of first getting
enlightened or saved and then acting.
As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals
us.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 1929-1968
Life's most
persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
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URSULA KING
We all need to learn a new language of
the spirit
to ensure the future flourishing of people
and planet.
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Much of spiritual life is
self-acceptance. Maybe all of it.
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JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI 1895-1986
To be aware means to be sensitive, alive to the
things about one, to nature, to people, to colour, to trees, to the
environment, to the social structure, the whole thing; to be aware outwardly of
all that’s happening and to be aware of what is happening inside.
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RABBI
HAROLD KUSHNER 1935-2023
I think of
life as a good book.
The further
you get into it,
the more it
begins to make sense.
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I
think this is how we are supposed to be in the world -- present and in awe.
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Talk: 12 truths I learned from life and writing
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BEVERLY LANZETTA
The call to
mystical openness is echoed across millennia of humanity's wisdom;
it is the
call to discover a unitary point of view
that holds
the promise of a more just and peaceful planet.
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How strange
that the nature of life is change,
yet the
nature of human beings is to resist change.
And how
ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us
are the very
ones that can break us open
and help us
blossom into who we were meant to be.
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The point behind mysticism is not to dazzle
the mind with ecstatic wonders or heady feelings, but to foster real and
lasting changes, for the purpose of becoming more like Christ, which is to say,
more compassionate, more forgiving, more committed to serving others and making
the world a better place.
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SALLIE McFAGUE
If humans do
not become friends, then they will not survive.
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For me
to be a saint means to be myself.
Therefore
the problem of sanctity and salvation
is in
fact the problem of
finding
out who I am and of discovering my true self.
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You have
tried it the hard way,
now try it
the heart’s way,
the
effortless way, for a while. …
The Divine
is not even
a breath
away from you.
It can
never be apart from you.
It is the
core of your very Being.
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JOSEPH NAFT
There is a place that we long for, a place where we can put down our
burdens, all of them, where we are free, utterly at peace, and in the arms of
compassion, even as we engage in our normal duties and activities. That place
is within us, in the stillness behind and beneath all that we are and all that
exists. This is the changeless, the deathless, the timeless. Remarkably, it is
close by, right here in our very own core. Day and night, it is always with us,
always has been and always will be, ever present and not in time. Our truth is
here. Our reality is here: not on the surface, in the stillness.
·
Inner Work topic: Conscious Energy
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Inner
Work series: Into the
Stillness
Think
of the hubris of our lives. Think of our individual arrogance, the way we
pursue our own well-being at the neglect and even expense of [others]… Think of
the hubris of our nationhood, pretending that we could look after the safety of
our homeland by ignoring and even violating the sovereignty of other lands.
Think of the hubris of our religion, raising ourselves up over other wisdom
traditions and even trying to force our ways on them. Think of the hubris of
the human species, pretending that we could look after our own health while
exploiting and endangering the life of other species ….
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Earth&Soul | The School
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HENRI NOUWEN 1932-1996
Pay
attention to the people God puts in your path
if you
want to discern what God is up to in your life.
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The
spiritual journey begins with a pause,
a
centering-in-God pause,
and over
time becomes a constant and ceaseless prayer,
an
honoring of and a connection with the Divine in you
that
awakens your essential self.
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JOHN
O’DONOHUE 1956-2008
At its heart,
the journey of each life is a
pilgrimage,
through unforeseen sacred places
that enlarge and enrich the soul.
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DIARMUID O'MURCHU
The spiritual landscape we explore is both ancient and new. For us
as humans, spirituality is a natural birthright, which over the millennia has
been weaving a tapestry of elegance, grandeur and beauty, with the inevitable
scars of an evolving universe. At this time of global transition, we need to
re-connect with that great tradition and reclaim it afresh in the context of
our new evolutionary moment.
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MARY OLIVER 1935-2019
Tell
me, what is it you plan to do
with
your one wild and precious life?
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While we must venture far to find our
“true self,” it is also always with us.
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We are participants in a vast community of
being,
and if we open ourselves to its guidance,
we can learn anew how to live
in this great and gracious community of
truth.
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RAIMON PANNIKAR 1918-2010
I left Europe [for India] as a
Christian,
I discovered I was a Hindu and returned
as a Buddhist
without ever having ceased to be a
Christian.
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PEACE PILGRIM 1908-1981
If you realized how powerful your thoughts
are,
you would never think a negative thought.
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Work in Her Own Words
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When I
say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is
far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you
that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot
survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and
justice that proves more powerful than greed.
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God
created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion
and,
yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
·
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Where we
have stopped dancing, singing,
being
enchanted by stories, or finding comfort in silence
is where
we have experienced the loss of soul.
Dancing,
singing, storytelling, and silence
are the
four universal healing salves.
·
5Rhythms
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Another
world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet
day, I can hear her breathing.
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Shine like
the whole universe is yours.
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JOYCE RUPP
If I stay in the darkness long
enough,
my eyes become more accustomed to the dark,
and I begin to see things of beauty and
freedom
that I never knew were present.
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PETER
RUSSELL
We can
go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness,
and
totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.
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RABBI
ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI 1924-2014
Faith is what I call a mind-move, a radical shift
in awareness. The expression 'a leap of faith' is so true. Faith is not
something we can arrive at by a careful, step-by-step process. It is not
something we can square with our intellect. Faith does not make sense, nor does
it feel safe. It is what takes us further after the questions that can be
answered logically have been exhausted. To have faith, we must let go. Faith is
like swimming the backstroke, reaching above and behind is into an unknown we
cannot see. Faith is like driving forward with only the rearview mirror as a
guide.
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Wonder
enhances life; worry shortens it.
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InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes his teaching
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HUSTON SMITH 1919-2016
Beware of
the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
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To walk an
interspiritual path is to travel through the wilderness with open hands and a
courageous spirit. It is to navigate with the heart and a book of prayers from
every faith tradition that ever uttered a sacred phrase in any language. To
travel an interspiritual path is to drop to our knees in the presence of Love
wherever we encounter it, and to disarm our hearts the minute we have the
impulse to otherize a faith we do not understand. To take an interspiritual
journey is to circle ever inward, to a place of holy silence and vibrant
stillness, and then to surge back outward with the contemplative fruits we have
gathered to feed a hungry world. An interspiritual life invites us to take our
rightful place at the table of the Divine in many Holy Houses, and asks that we
kneel at the altars of multiple traditions and drink from the goblet we are
offered, and allow it to transform us. Interspirituality is about saying YES to
the sacred in every form and no form, about moving beyond intellectual
orientation to active engagement with various religions, about seeking and
finding the Love that unifies all paths and affirms our essential
interconnectedness.
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DAVID STEINDL-RAST
The quest of
the human heart for meaning is the heartbeat of every religion.”
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David Steindl-Rast is the founder of Grateful Living which
offers a word for the day and other resources for the essential practice of
being grateful for life’s many gifts, step two in the InterSpiritual
Meditation practice.
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I slept and
dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and
saw that life was service.
I acted and
behold, service was joy.
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Humanity stands
at a crossroads between horror and hope. In choosing hope, we must seed a new
consciousness, a radically fresh approach to life drawing its inspiration from
perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition and experience. We call this new awareness interspiritual,
implying not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic
heart beating in the center of the world’s deepest spiritual traditions.
·
InterSpiritual
Dialogue ‘n’ Action | A section By
and About Brother Wayne
·
He is credited with coining the term
“InterSpiritual” or “InterSpirituality.” He was a Roman Catholic Lay monk who
also became a Hindu Monk following in the footsteps of Bede Griffiths.
·
Another quote describing InterSpirituality
> The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions brings
with it a deeply fruitful openness to learning from one another. It makes
possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights,
values, and spiritual practices from the various religions and their
application to one's own inner life and development. This phenomenon has truly
revolutionary implications, especially for the real likelihood of a global
culture and civilization forming that is unmistakably universal in more than a
geographical sense. -- Wayne Teasdale in The
Community of Religions
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the ongoing effort to carry out the Vision of Brother Wayne > Community of the Mystic Heart | CMH Facebook Page | Multiplex | Reflections on Brother
Wayne by Gorakh Hayashi | The Coming InterSpiritual Age by Kurt
Johnson and David Robert Ord | Excerpt
from TCIA | VoiceAmerica:
The Convergence | One Voice
Coalition | 1God | Global Peace
Warriors Tribute
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·
A 2017 article by Kurt
Johnson in The Interfaith Observer > “Becoming
One in the Spirit: The Growing Edge of Interspirituality”
·
Reprint
of an Interview: Transforming the Seeds of Corruption
·
Videos > Finding
Peace at the Center: 5 parts | Speaking
on Contemplative Life as a monk in the world | Video: Interview on Spirituality in Action | Wayne Teasdale & Ken Wilber dialogue: Part
1
| Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Youtube
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PIERRE TEILHARD
de CHARDIN 1881-1055
Driven by the forces of love,
the fragments of the world are seeking
each other,
so that the world may come into being.
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive.
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The Howard Thurman Papers Project of Boston
University School of Theology
·
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To meet everything and everyone through
stillness
instead of mental noise
is the greatest gift you can offer to the
universe.
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eckharttolle.com
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God does not
give up on anyone, for God loved us from all eternity.
God loves us
now and God will always love us, all of us good and bad, forever and ever.
His love
will not let us go, for God's love for us,
all of us,
good and bad, is unchanging, is unchangeable.
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LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE
Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten – it
knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling
we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.
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As we become aware
of the interconnectedness of existence, we weave a golden thread that brings
into our everyday life the reality of oneness. This golden thread is the
unbroken link that exists between the One Essence and Its infinite ways of expression,
Its creation.
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ALAN WATTS 1915-1973
By replacing
fear of the unknown with curiosity
we open
ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility.
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD 1861-1947
More than anything else,
the future of civilization depends on the way
the two most powerful forces of history,
science and religion,
settle into relationship with each other.
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KEN WILBER
I have one major rule: Everybody is
right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces
of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included
in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.
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WALTER WINK 1935-2012
History belongs to the intercessors –
those who believe and pray the future into
being.
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PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA 1893-1952
Live quietly
in the moment
and see the
beauty of all before you.
The future
will take care of itself......
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