Tag: spirituality

  • Sunday Prayer

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    In one of his best-known poems: ‘The Guest House,” Rumi uses the metaphor of the human being as a kind of ‘guest house’, which every day must accept new arrivals: joy, meanness, melancholy, and so on. Rumi’s lesson is that we should welcome and entertain all of these unexpected guests, for they all serve a…

  • Photographing Spirituality

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    James Estrin, co-founder of the The New York Times Lens blog will be exhibiting a collection of his work documenting human spirituality at the 92nd Street Y on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Michael Winerip, who is familiar with Esterin’s work notes: Having worked many, many 12-hour days with him, I can say firsthand that James Estrin’s photos definitely don’t…

  • Spirituality Enhances Health

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    In a study, posted on the Elevated Existence blog, research shows spirituality enhances a person’s health – particularly their mental health: “In many ways, the results of our study support the idea that spirituality functions as a personality trait,” said Dan Cohen, assistant teaching professor of religious studies at MU and one of the co-authors…

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    The clear bead at the center changes everything.  There are no edges to my loving now. You’ve heard it said there’s a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there’s no wall, there’s no need for fitting the window, or the latch. — RUMI —

  • Spirituality for Sale

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    Geoff Olson takes on the heavily commodified New Age scene in his piece, Spirituality for sale in the New Age of ‘me,’ in the Vancouver Courier. From the late ’30s to the early ’60s, a clutch of gurus and gadflies blew into the Bay area with the foundational texts of the human potential movement. The most notable included the…

  • Is Moral Masochism At The Heart of Religion?

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    A friend once encouraged me to read the writings of St. John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic Saint, as a way to gain spiritual insight. At the time, I rather callously dismissed the book and St. John’s teachings.  What put me off completely was a passage in which St. John abjectly…

  • Spirituality May Bring Better Health

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    Dr. Roy Sessions observes that, in his experience, “people with strong faith in the Deity and an associated afterlife generally are able to go through the cancer experience more easily than those who do not possess such beliefs.”  He goes on to note: According to a February 2009 feature article in Time magazine that was…

  • Does Monotheism Kill Spirituality?

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    By Ajay Nemade Monotheist says, “God is one, my God is true and your God is false”. This kills spirituality. In spirituality there is no my God or your God. God is the same for all humanity, whether they believe him in any form. Monotheist insists on their own God which is actually their imagination on…

  • “Is There At the Heart of Spirituality a Powerful, Redemptive, and Transformative Idea?”

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    In his recent article “Think Spirituality Is Easy? Think Again…” Roger Gottlieb asks “Is there at the heart of spirituality a powerful, redemptive, and transformative idea?”  He believes there is: “… one that is simply expressed but often excruciatingly hard to put into practice. The idea is this: our lives will be far happier, in an…

  • Morocco’s Fes Festival: Music, mysticism and meaning

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    Get ready for flamenco guitar, social consciousness and Sufi mystics. The world’s most spiritual music fest kicks off this week. By CNN Travel staff 3 June, 2013 Uzbekistan’s Yuldusz Turdevia Ensemble performed at the 2012 Fes Festival in Morocco. The official goal of Morocco’s annual Fes Festival (June 7-15) “is to harness the arts and spirituality in the…