December 2008

Columnist Featured Articles

"Memento Mori"

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December 2008
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In my experience as a hospital chaplain, I face almost daily the reality that we are born, we live, and we die. Yes, it is a built-in condition of human existence that our lives flicker up and are quickly extinguished.

Amorphia Was Her Name

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December 2008
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Welcome to Intutitive Journaling class.

Your assignment today is to close your eyes, breathe deeply and sense into your body, asking your intuition for a symbol of healing.

Perhaps there is an area within you that feels warm or ripe. What colors does it offer? What shapes?

An Interfaith Approach to Reclaiming the Divine World

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December 2008
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Interfaith research on the existence and nature of “Heaven on Earth” has been my passion for over a decade. Why? Because I have seen the Divine World since childhood and never understood how formal religion could ignore this infinitely precious, constantly flowing, everyday miracle.

"Light Upon Light!": 25 Passages from the Holy Qur'an

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December 2008
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds;
Most Gracious, Most Merciful;
Master of the Day of Judgment.
Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek.
Show us the straight way;
The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace,

“Soulstice” Midwifery: Standing at Door #3

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December 2008

"You must give birth to your images. 
They are the future waiting to be born…
Fear not the strangeness you feel. 
The future must enter into you long before it happens."
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
 

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