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When it comes to the very practical business of aligning our vision and values with our actions on the word, we look like amateurs, unfamiliar with the tools we need. Spiritual experiences, perspectives and practices are wrongly framed as otherworldly, rather than precious human resources to bring our ideals into being.
Dr Jonathan Rowson • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
In my own stories about spiritual experience, just as in the stories I received as a child, the truth, if there is truth, is seen “through a glass, darkly.”3 To me, this means that no matter how deeply or widely we study, there is always more to be seen, and no one sees all that there is to see. I do not believe there is or ever has been anyone who
... See moreWhat a mystery the way things act on us, like secret messages just to you as you sit in the dark.
Dana Spiotta • Innocents and Others
For most people, loneliness doesn't stem from a lack of friends. It comes from not feeling connected to the friends you already have, while "peering in" on their lives via social media. (You can read more about this in the ancient text Big Friendship.) This problem is not fixable if you expect community to just happen naturally . It is fixable if... See more
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Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
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