WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
OF DELIGHT
+ Find the thing
that stirs your heart and make room for it. Life is about the development of
self to the point of unbridled joy.
-- Joan Chittister
in Monasteries of the Heart Newsletter
+ Each person is
born with a gift. Our call is to find it and care for it. The ultimate purpose
of the gift is to exercise the heart into inhabiting its aliveness. For the
covenant of life is not just to stay alive, but to stay in our aliveness. And
staying in aliveness depends on opening the heart and keeping it open.
-- Mark Nepo in The
One Life We’re Given
+ I will be sharing much of the wisdom of Edward Bastian,
my InterSpirituality Mentor, as we continue to explore the practice of Delight and, then, as we explore the twelfth and final practice, Heavenliness. After that, we will explore The nine heavenly attributes and I am sure I will turn to Ed's wisdom again and again. Ed says we all have different spiritual styles which
need to be discovered, cultivated and harnessed through a Mandala Process of
Inquiry, Insight and Integration.
The Mandala Process can be very useful, even essential, for
those of us who sincerely want to “find the thing that stirs your heart” and
“stay in our aliveness.”
+ You can be introduced to Ed’s wisdom at the Spiritual Paths website. Ed is the Founder and President of the Spiritual Paths Foundation. He has written 2 books on InterSpirituality which you can find on the Amazon Author Page for Edward Bastian. In Ed’s book on InterSpiritual Meditation (and in the internet course found at the Spiritual Paths website) we are invited to think about and write about a variety of themes connected to happiness & health including: Mind, Body and Spirit. And, for gratefulness: Remembrance, Gratitude, Trust, Devotion, Prayer and Offering.
To get inspired and illuminated by Ed Bastian,
I invite you to set aside some time for https://youtu.be/Yy_jK7a0qBs
(2 hours) and / or https://youtu.be/TEF5BhN3c5s
(15 minutes).
+ You can be introduced to Ed’s wisdom at the Spiritual Paths website. Ed is the Founder and President of the Spiritual Paths Foundation. He has written 2 books on InterSpirituality which you can find on the Amazon Author Page for Edward Bastian. In Ed’s book on InterSpiritual Meditation (and in the internet course found at the Spiritual Paths website) we are invited to think about and write about a variety of themes connected to happiness & health including: Mind, Body and Spirit. And, for gratefulness: Remembrance, Gratitude, Trust, Devotion, Prayer and Offering.
+ Delight
is not one of the 37 Spirituality & Practice practices BUT put Delight in
their Search Engine and you come up with 85 items including 67 quotes, 16
books, 1 practice, and 1 film as of 6/14/16.
Go to http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/search/?q=Delight. However, it is clear that Mary Ann &
Frederic Brussat are big fans of Joy.
Therefore, put Joy in their
Search Engine and you come up with 2057 items including 867 quotes, 835
books, 160 practices, 11 teachers, 24 arts links, 29 e-courses, 98 films, 26
blogs and 4 traditions as of 6/14/16. Oh, and Joy IS
one of the 37 spiritual practices. You can also be inspired by their
Twelves Gallery on Joy.
+ Joy will
come up again very soon in these explorations since it is the second of 9
heavenly attributes we will be exploring.
+ I would love it if you offered a guest post on this
practice or any practice. And, I have
work to do on my Delight page. Maybe you can help. Send an email with the subject “Delight”
or “Guest Post” to John@abundancetrek.com.
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