The Civilization That Learned to Receive
on my mind:
modern spirituality encourages us to DIY our own world of life signifiers, to come up with our own spiritual frameworks involving special diets, meditation schedules, intermittent fasts, escapes to nature, and more.
but to go down this path, we have to really believe, like @antoniogm says that we can improve on a bar mitzvah as a comi... See more
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmereremergencemagazine.org
You will watch your parents die and be buried. You will watch your newborn child emerge in a messy circus of heaving grunts and high-pitched wailing. You will watch your dreams and projects dashed, only to wake the next day and greet the fruits of your failure anew and cobble a life out of them all the same. You will punctuate the cavalcade of even
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Jewish tradition teaches that after you have done new things consistently for a while, you begin to feel yourself becoming a different person.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
I grew up believing what all modern people are taught: that freedom meant lack of constraint. Orthodoxy taught me that this freedom was no freedom at all, but enslavement to the passions: a neat description of the first thirty years of my life. True freedom, it turns out, is to give up your will and follow God’s. To deny yourself. To let it come. I... See more