SPIRITUALITY
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Seek
peace. When you have peace within, real peace
with others will be possible.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Every
breath we take, every step we make, can be filled
with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only
to be awake, alive in the present moment.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Do
not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine,
theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All
systems of thought are guiding means; they are
not absolute truth."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"To
me, love, spirituality and life are all the
same thing. To me they're all about honoring
the circle, and they're just different ways
of defining the same understanding. Our society
as a whole, because we have placed our love
for money above our love for life, has devalued
the sacred and devalued love."
-- Julia Butterfly
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It
all began on a day in 1960, sitting in the kitchen
of my Greenwich home with a friend, snacking on peanut
butter sandwiches, talking about what a mess the world
was in, with the spectre of nuclear Armageddon not
a remote possibility, when as if out of nowhere, a
light turned on in my mind and I excitedly saw an
antidote -- an ongoing forum where dialogue and understanding
could be promoted by bringing all the world's religions
together under one roof.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder of the Temple of Understanding
There
is so much work yet to be done. It is so clear to
me that all we have to do is awaken to the fact that
we are all ONE, or as my friend Father Thomas Merton
has so rightly said, 'We are already ONE . . . what
we have to become is what we already are.' It seems
so simple, doesn't it? Yet so much more work to do.
So much more work.'
-- Juliet Hollister, founder of the Temple of Understanding
We
can no more do without spirituality than we can do
without food, shelter, or clothing.
-- Ernest Holmes
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In
the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With
the very same powers — spiritual, social, scientific
— we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve
as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our
lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next
stage of our evolution.
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I
feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship
to each other and that both are responses to
the deep human yearning for connection and for
peace on earth, and that they both have a vision
of universal human equity.
-- Helen
LaKelly Hunt
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I
firmly believe that all human beings have access
to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging
from accounts of mystical experience, heightened
creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes
and artists, we harbor a greater life than we
know.”
-- Jean Huston
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"Peace
is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less
than an inevitable result of it."
-- Aldous Huxley
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The
true spiritual life begins within the individual
when he perceives the importance of it, and
begins to realize what spiritual values are.
Therefore, in order for man to emerge from his
present state of chaos, he must experience a
revolution of a new type, one that will have
neither a political nor an economic character.
We may call it the individual self-revolution.
There is nothing that can better transform man
from his materialistic conception of existence
to a spiritual awareness of life than such individual
revolution from within...
-- Frederick
Kettner
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Reconnect
with the spiritual force that animates the best
in you. Then let your every action flow from
your strength and compassion.
-- Fran
Korten
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Active
citizenship begins with an envisioning of the
desired outcome and a conscious application
of spiritual principles.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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There
is at the moment in the world a battle going
on between those who are pursuing materialistic
paths—globalizers of economic growth and those
hell-bent on this ‘big is better’ idea—on the
one hand, and on the other hand those who are
dedicated to spiritual renewal, more small-scale
development, more human scale, more sustainability,
more crafts and arts. Where human beings are
not just sold to companies and money and those
kinds of things. Where human beings have a sacred
path.
-- Satish
Kumar
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…in
place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power,
a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is
possible. People of all faiths need to shape
a political and social movement that reaffirms
the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed,
and loving truths of the spiritual heritage
of the human race.
-- Rabbi Michael
Lerner
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We
need to build millions of little moments of caring
on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics
of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will
feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual
and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves
to give more space to their highest vision in their
personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning
is as much about these millions of small acts as it
is about any larger change. The two necessarily go
hand in hand.
-- Rabbi Michael Lerner
"Ultimately,
one of the best ways to take care of our souls is
to build a society that supports rather than undermines
our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations.
Yet, building that society can never be divided from
the daily practices through which we live out our
ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat
others around us, and in the way we nourish the God
within us."
-- Rabbi Michael Lerner
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We
must comprehend in each of our hearts and minds
the two ways we human beings are free to follow,
as we choose: the good way, the spiritual way
- or the un-natural way, the material way. It’s
our personal choice, our personal decision -
each of ours and all of ours.
-- Chief
Arvol Lookinghorse
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Spirituality
Day
- December 31
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