Surrender to Divine Revelation
November 30th, 2009JanInterfaith
"Follow what you are taught by inspiration from your Lord."
(The Qur'an, Surah 6, Verse 106)
Cultivating Compassion for Life on the Street: A Short Tonglen Meditation
December 31st, 2009JanInterfaith
Sogyal Rinpoche suggests that compassion is:
[…] not simply a sense of sympathy or caring for the person suffering, not simply a warmth of heart toward the person before you … it is also a sustained a practical determination to do whatever is possible and necessary to help alleviate their suffering. (1)
Meditations from the Heart
November 29th, 2009JanInterfaith
I'd like to share with you a most amazing experience on my journey at the Chaplaincy Institute. My creativity blossomed in a profound and mystical way!
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We Are the Village
November 2nd, 2009JanInterfaithGrowing up in a small town in farm country, I experienced the whole package of being a member of the geographical village right up to the time I left home. People loved me and I loved them. Life felt safe; everywhere you looked was someone you knew. You could always find help if you needed it, no matter what the situation.
The Enlightened Elder in the Twenty-First Century
October 27th, 2009JanInterfaith
"Turning and turning on the widening gyre,
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…
Surely some revelation is at hand."
(William Yeats)
Quotes from The Drowned Book, by Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi
October 15th, 2009JanInterfaith
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Praise for the unnameable mystery.
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Open your heart. Feel the closeness with God. Look inside yourself. Tend the awareness there.
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My heart feels like flowers opening along a branch.
