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· S&P book review of InterSpiritual Meditation: A Seven-Step Process from the World’s Spiritual Traditions

EDWARD BASTIAN

Sacred light pervades

Me through and through,

And bliss descends

Like mountain dew.

Radiating out,

I now impart

Rainbows of healing

From my heart.

· S&P search | Books | Traditions |

· S&P InterSpiritual Meditation E-Course is a 42 part course taught by Ed

· S&P InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes his teaching

· Goodreads page on InterSpiritual Meditation: A Seven-Step Process from the World's Spiritual Traditions

· Goodreads page on Mandala: Creating an Authentic Spiritual Path: An InterSpiritual Process

· S&P book review of Living Fully, Dying Well: Reflecting on Death to Find Your Life's Meaning by Edward W. Bastian and Tina L. Staley | Excerpt on Forgiveness |

· Ed’s video with the InterSpiritual Meditation Verses > You can hear Ed saying the verses for each step and singing the ISM chant.

· A video offered by Contemplative Life with Ed teaching and leading the Seven Steps of InterSpiritual Meditation

· Videos > Youtube: Edward Bastian Films | Vimeo: Edwaafrd W. Bastian |

DIANE BERKE

The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds.

Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation.

· One Spirit Learning Alliance | Welcome Letter from Diane Berke, Founder & Spiritual Director

· S&P Search | Practices |

· S&P Book Review of The Gentle Smile: Practicing Oneness in Daily Life

· S&P E-course: The Wisdom of A Course in Miracles

· Video: Power of Prayer: Diane Berke & Andrew Harvey

· Videos > Youtube Search | One Spirit Channel |

THOMAS BERRY 1914-2009

It is important that we be mindful of the earth,

the planet out of which we are born

and by which we are nourished, guided, healed —

the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree

in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.

· thomasberry.org | Quotes |

· S&P Search | Books | Films | Practices |

· S&P Naming the Days Feature: Birthday of Thomas Berry

· S&P E-Course: Thomas Berry: Prophet & Mystic of the Earth

· S&P Book Review of The Dream of the Earth | Excerpt on Reverence |

· Video: The Collected Thoughts of Thomas Berry

· Video: Thomas Berry: The Spiritual and Ecological Vision in his Life and Work

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes |

JOHN BIERSDORF 1930-2020

Compassion is expressed in gentleness. When I think of persons I know who model for me the depths of spiritual life, I am struck by their gentleness. Their eyes communicate the residue of solitary battles with angels, the costs of caring for others, the deaths of ambition and ego, and the peace that comes from having very little left to lose in this life. / They are gentle because they have honestly faced the struggles given to them and have learned the hard way that personal survival is not the point. Their care is gentle because their self-aggrandizement is no longer at stake. There is nothing in it for them. Their vulnerability has been stretched to clear-eyed sensitivity to others and truly selfless love.

· John Biersdorf Obituary

· Founder and Past President and Dean of Ecumenical Theological Seminary of Detroit MI

· Books > Goodreads Search | wipfandstock.com

· Goodreads page for Infinite Reach: Spirituality in a Scientific World | Amazon page | B&N page

· “Church Order and the Emerging Future” 1971

· Above quote in Sojo Voice of the Day

· LinkedIn Page has good information but is partially inaccurate due to his death.

BLACK ELK 1863-1950

The first peace, which is the most important,

is that which comes within the souls of people

when they realize their relationship,

their oneness with the universe and all its powers,

and when they realize that at the center of the universe

dwells the Great Spirit,

and that this center is really everywhere,

it is within each of us.

· Goodreads Page on Black Elk Speaks

· Wikipedia Article

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuotes | AZquotes |

ROBERT BLY 1927-2021

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic.

True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence,

a voice free to say spontaneous things,

and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

· S&P Teachers Project | Books | Poetry | Video Clips |

· S&P Search | Books | Films | Practices |

· S&P Book Review of News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness | Excerpt on Vision | Excerpt on Connections | Excerpt on X-The Mystery |

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZ quotes | BrainyQuote |

LAURENCE BOLDT

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy.

Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

· EmpowerYou.com

· S&P Book Review of The Tao of Abundance: Eight Ancient Principles for Abundant Living

· S&P Book Review of Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design | Excerpt on Beauty

· S&P Book Review of Zen Soup: Tasty Morsels of Wisdom from Great Minds East and West

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes |

SYLVIA BOORSTEIN

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

· sylviaboorstein.com

· S&P Teachers Project

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads

MARCUS BORG 1942-2015

Spirituality combines awareness, intention and practice.

I define it as becoming conscious of and intentional about

a deepening relationship with God.

· The Marcus J Borg Foundation | Quotes | Books |

· S&P Teachers Project | Books | Quotes | Video Clips |

· Evolutionary Leaders Bio Page

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes

JOAN BORYSENKO

If we take some deep breaths,

let go of our agenda,

and open up to the presence of love,

the spirit of guidance will let us know how to participate

in creating—and enjoying—a future that works for us all.

· joanborysenko.com

· S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips |

· S&P Book Review of A Woman’s Journey to God | Excerpt on Grace

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes

CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT

All will come of its own accord in good time with abundant fullness,

so long as one does not attempt to hoard or cling.

· cynthiabourgeault.org | Quotes

· Contemplative.org

· S&P Search | Books |

· S&P E-Course > A course she teaches on Thomas Keating’s The Secret Embrace

· S&P InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes her teaching

· CAC Teacher

· Video: Cynthia Interviews Thomas Keating

· Videos > Youtube Channel | YouTube search |

· Quotes > Goodreads

TARA BRACH

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

· tarabrach.com | R-A-I N method > Recognize. Allow. Investigate. Nurture | Blog Page on R-A-I-N

· Insight Meditation Community of Washington > imcw.org

· S&P Book Review of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha | Excerpt on Being Present |

· S&P Practice Feature: The Sacred Pause Practice

· CAC page which includes R-A-I-N Method

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote | AZquotes |

BRENÉ BROWN

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

· S&P Book Review of Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

· Spiritual Practice on cultivating and maintaining calm

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote |

JOSEPH BRUCHAC

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians

because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

· joebruchac.com | Books | Blog |

· S&P Teachers Project > Books | Quotes |

· S&P Book Review of Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture, and Values through Storytelling | Excerpt on Attention |

· S&P Book Review of Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children | Excerpt on Questing |

· S&P Book Review of At the End of Ridge Road | Excerpt on Being Present |

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote | AZquotes |

· Videos > Youtube Search

FREDERIC & MARY ANN BRUSSAT

Begin with what is right in front of you.

Have both pride and humility.

Be assertive and yielding.

You are much more and much less than you probably think you are.

Relax. This, the Creator reminds us, is good.

· Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat have been the spirituality and culture guides for many of us since the early 1970s. The Spirituality and Practice website has been a valuable resource since 2006 with thousands of illuminating, inspiring and informative pages. You may find yourself staying at this stop for many hours and keep returning for years. It will help you answer important questions like: How do you define spirituality? How is your understanding of spirituality changing? What books, movies, songs, causes, relationships are informing you, inspiring you, comforting you, challenging you? You won’t be disappointed. These 2 pages are a good place to begin your exploration of this fantastic and fascinating resource for seekers of wisdom > What is Spirituality? | What is Everyday Spirituality?

· Celebrating Five Decades of the work of F&M Brussat at S&P and its predecessors

· S&P page about Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat

· Ten Minute Video Introducing the Limitless Resources of Spiritualty & Practice

· S&P Book Review of Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat | Excerpt on Compassion | Excerpt on Unity | Excerpt on Meaning |

· S&P Book Review of 100 ways to Keep Your Soul Alive

· S&P Book Review of 100 More Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive

· Progressive Christianity Article on the Brussats

· Videos > Youtube Search for Frederic Brussat | Youtube Search for Mary Ann Brussat | Spiritual Literacy Youtube Channel | Youtube Search for Spirituality & Practice |

BEATRICE BRUTEAU 1930-2014

We cannot wait for the world to turn,

for times to change that we might change with them,

for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course.

We are the future. We are the revolution.

· S&P Book Review of Radical Optimism: Rooting Ourselves in Reality | Excerpt on Imagination

· A tribute by Cynthia Bourgeault

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes

ADAM BUCKO

Certainly–and we can all agree on this, whether we are atheists, theists, panentheists–the future is doing the calling. The unborn children, our great-great-grandchildren are doing the calling. A mere seventy-five years from now they're going to be saying, 'What did you do, Daddy, when the Earth was collapsing and when militarism was where you were putting so much of your money, and when empires were still the mode of the day, and when religions were at each other's throats and Christianity was collapsing? What did you do? How did you interfere and say no?’

· Fatheradambucko.com | Center for Spiritual Imagination |

· S&P Teachers Project | Books | Video Clips |

· S&P Book Review of Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation | Excerpt on Justice

· S&P Book Review of Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation | Excerpt on Devotion

· S&P Book Review of The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living | Excerpt on Transformation

· Videos > Spiritual Directors International Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads

FREDERICK BUECHNER 1926-2022

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows,

but because if I tell it anything like right,

the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

· frederickbuechner.com

· S&P Book Review of The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work By Phil Cousineau

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote

JOSEPH CAMPBELL 1904-1987

A myth has to work the way a picture works:

either you say, “Aha!” or somebody has to explain it to you.

And if it has to be explained to you, it’s not working.

· Joseph Campbell Foundation | Books and Other Products |

· S&P Book Review of A Joseph Campbell Companion By Diane K. Osbon, Joseph Campbell

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote |

JACK CANFIELD

We are standing at a major crossroads in human history.

We are being called to evolve to a higher level of consciousness,

cooperation and co-creation of a world that works for everyone and all life forms.

If we fail to answer that call, we risk the total destruction of all life on the planet.

· evolutionary leaders bio |

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote | AZquotes |

DON CHATFIELD

A large part of the perennial connection at All Souls

is giving people the opportunity to

wake up, be alert to what’s happening around them,

and to help them connect with the cycles of the natural world.

· All Souls Interfaith Gathering > Don is Pastor

· Forest of Peace > Don led previously

· New Perennials Interview

JOAN CHITTISTER

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God. We must become aware of the sacred in every element of life. We must bring beauty to birth in a poor and plastic world. We must restore the human community. We must grow in concert with the God who is within. We must be healers in a harsh society.

· Joanchittister.org | Books

· S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips | E-Courses

· S&P Search | Quotes | Books | Practices

· S&P Book Review of The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life | Excerpt on Zeal

· S&P Book Review of Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light

· Videos > Youtube Search | Ted Talk |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

True compassion does not come from

wanting to help those less fortunate than ourselves

but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

· pemachödrönfoundation.org | Books | Videos | Store |

· S&P Search | Books |

· S&P Book Review of When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Timess/view/725?id=725

· S&P Book Review of The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times | Excerpt on Being Present |

· Video: Pema Chödrön talks about Shantideva

· Video: The One Non-Negotiable Happiness Strategy

· S&P E-Course: Practicing Spirituality with Pema Chödrön

· Videos > Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | Universal Awakening | BrainyQuote |

LEONARD COHEN 1934-2016

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

· leonardcohen.com

· S&P Search | Books | Films | Practices

· S&P Film Review of Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song

· S&P Naming the Days Feature: Birthday of Leonard Cohen, September 21

· “Anthem” with Lyrics Video

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote

RABBI DAVID COOPER 1939-2020

There are at least four essential elements

composing the foundation of the enlightenment process:

purification, concentration, effort, and mastery.

It is helpful for us to evaluate our practice

by the criteria of one or more of these essential characteristics.

· rabbidavidcooper.com

· Harvard Divinity School Faculty Page

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > AZquotes

HARVEY COX

Not to decide is to decide

· Goodreads pages on The Future of Faith

· S&P review of The Future of Faith | Excerpt on Faith

· John Goerzen’s excellent Review of The Future of Faith

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote

THE 14^th DALAI LAMA

The planet does not need more successful people.

The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers,

restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

· His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet website | Books | Teachings | Messages | Videos

· S&P Film Review of Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times + This is a documentary featuring the delightful meeting of The Dalai Lama and ArchBishop Desmond Tutu.

· InterSpiritual Discussion with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu: Part 1

· Videos > Youtube Channel

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote

RAM DASS 1931-2019

I'm explicitly making my life a teaching, by expressing the lessons that I've learned through it so it can become a map for other people. Everybody's life could be like that, if they choose to make it so; choose to reflect what they've been through and to share it with others.

· ramdass.org | Quotes | Books & Media

· S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips | Audio Clips

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search

· Quotes > Gratefulness.org | Goodreads | AZquotes

ANTHONY DeMELLO 1931-1987

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

· DeMello Spirituality Center | Books

· Blue Mountain Center of Meditation

· Videos > Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | QuoteFancy |

WAYNE DYER 1940-2015

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation

in awe of everything you see around you.

Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you.

This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude

will help you to focus your life in awe.

· S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips |

· S&P Search | Books |

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote | AZquotes |

EKNATH EASWARAN 1910-1999

Memorize a passage on kindness, on goodness,

and then drive it inward every day,

deeper and deeper into consciousness.

If you persist, you will become that kind, good person

on which you meditate; it cannot fail.

· S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Practices

· S&P Naming the Days Feature: Birthday of Meister Eckhart

· S&P Feature: Ten Reasons Why Gandhi Is My Hero by Frederic Brussat includes many Easwaran quotes

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote

MEISTER ECKHART 1260-1327

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

· The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart > PDF with huge amount of his writings

· S&P Book Review of Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing

· S&P Book Review of A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey by Matthew Fox | Excerpt on Vision > the book & excerpt highlights how Eckhart taught Creation Spirituality

· Goodreads Author page

· Britannica Biography

· Wikipedia Article

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote | AZquotes |

ALBERT EINSTEIN 1879-1957

My religion consists of a humble admiration

of the illimitable superior spirit

who reveals himself in the slight details

we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

· S&P Naming the Days: Einstein’s Birthday -- March 14 -- including Quotes

· S&P Book Review of Einstein’s God by Krista Tippett

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote

JAMES FINLEY

Meditation is a way of slowing down

so as to descend into the depths of yourself in the present moment,

where God lies waiting to grant you

a deep experience of your eternal oneness with God.

· CAC Faculty Bio Page

· A week of CAC Meditations on Exploring the Mystics

· S&P Book Review of Merton’s Palace of Nowhere | Excerpt on Meaning

· S&P Book Review of The Contemplative Heart

· S&P Book Review of The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation | Excerpt on Love

· S&P Review of an Audio Retreat > Christian Meditation: Entering the Mind of Christ

· S&P Review of an Audio Series > Thomas Merton's Path to the Palace of Nowhere: The Essential Guide to the Contemplative Teachings of Thomas Merton

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes

MATTHEW FOX

Postdenominationalism is about pluralism and ecumenism in religion. It is about stretching our piecemeal religious boundaries and setting aside our boxes to the extent that they are neither challenging us nor nourishing us deeply anymore, or to the extent that they are interfering with the pressing earth issues of our time.

· matthewfox.org | Daily Meditations

· S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips | Audio Clips

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote

MOHANDAS GANDHI 1869-1948

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear.

· S&P Film Review of Gandhi

· S&P Book Review of Modern Spiritual Masters: Writings on Contemplation and Compassion by Robert Ellsberg. Gandhi is one of the 12 Masters.

· S&P Feature: Ten Reasons Why Gandhi Is My Hero by Frederic Brussat

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote

DOUGLAS CHEOLSEONG GENTILE

The universe, and almost everything in it, is conspiring to make you happy.

It is doing it very sneakily, so we don’t usually see it,

but that just means that the conspiracy is wide and deep.

· Goodreads Page on Finding the Freedom to Get Unstuck and Be Happier

· Videos > Youtube Search

JEFF GENUNG

When your life becomes your practice, your practice becomes your life.

· Contemplative Life > Facebook Page |

· evolutionary leaders.net | Jeff’s bio page |

· Transformation-365

· Prosocial.world > Prosocial Spirituality | Active Group Engagement |

· Church of Conscious Harmony

· Source of Synergy foundation

· Synergized Impact Network Exchange

· Holomovement

KAHLIL GIBRAN 1883-1931

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

· S&P Search | Books | Films

· S&P Book Review of In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran by Paul-Gordon Chandler

· S&P Book Review of Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Love by Neil Douglas-Klotz | Excerpt on Love

· S&P Book Review of Kahlil Gibrans Little Book of Wisdom by Neil Douglas-Klotz | Excerpt on Reverence

· S&P Book Review of Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Secrets by Neil Douglas-Klotz | Excerpt on Teachers

· Vides > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote | AZ quotes |

RABBI ARTHUR GREEN

I began as a seeker and remain one to this day.

The psalm that says: 'Seek God's face always'

has come to mean in my own prayer-life

that the quest itself is endless,

that the 'face of God' is to be found within the seeking,

not only as a final goal.

· S&P Book Review of Ehyeh: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow | Excerpt on Meaning

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | S&P

BEDE GRIFFITHS 1906-1994

When the Jew, the Christian, the Moslem, the Hindu and the Buddhist open themselves in prayer, in meditation, to the transcendent mystery, going beyond word, beyond thought, simply opening themselves to the light, to the truth, to reality, then meeting takes place.

That is where humanity will be united.

· S&P Naming the Days Feature: Birthday of Bede Griffiths

· S&P Book Review of Bede Griffiths: An Introduction to His Interspiritual Thought by Wayne Teasdale | Excerpt

· S&P Book Review of Bede Griffiths: Eassential Writings | Excerpt on Meaning

· “[Benedictine monk] Bede [Griffiths] felt that the ultimate significance of the cosmos is a mystical one, in the sense that the universe itself is a vehicle leading the mind to the Divine. His view is much like the medieval Franciscan view of creation as a great book from which we can learn the essentials of being and life. Because of this, science, as well as both Eastern and Western mysticism, is part of the larger synthesis that Bede conceived.” — Wayne Teasdale quoted in The Other Half of My Soul by Beatrice Bruteau, editor

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes |

HAFIZ 1325-1390

I wish I could show you,

when you are lonely,

when you are in darkness,

the astonishing light of your own being.

· S&P Book Review of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master by Daniel Ladinsky | Excerpt 1 on Love | Excerpt 2 on Love

· Videos > Youtube Search

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuote |

JOAN HALIFAX

In being with dying,

we arrive at a natural crucible

of what it means to love and be loved.

And we can ask ourselves this:

Knowing that death is inevitable,

what is most precious today?

· joanhalifax.org | Upaya Zen Center | Teacher |

· S&P Book Review of Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

· S&P Book Review of Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives | Excerpt on Transformation

· S&P Book Review of The Fruitful Darkness | Excerpt on Meaning |

· S&P Book Review of A Buddhist Life in America: Simplicity in the Complex

· S&P Book Review of Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZ quotes | BrainyQuote |

THÍCH NHẤT HẠNH 1926-2022

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

· Plumvillage.org

· S&P Book Review of Cultivating the Mind of Love: he Practice of Looking Deeply in the Mahayana Buddhist Tradition By Thich Nhat Hanh | Excerpt on Connections

· S&P Quote > On the altar in my hermitage in France are images of Buddha and Jesus, and every time I light incense, I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors. I can do this because of contact with real Christians. When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. This quality is essential for dialogue. — Thích Nhất Hạnh in Living Buddha, Living Christ

· S&P Quote > Dialogue is not a means for assimilation in the sense that one side expands and incorporates the other into its "self." Dialogue must be practiced on the basis of "non-self." We have to allow the good, the beautiful, and the meaningful in the other's tradition to transform us. — Thích Nhất Hạnh in Living Buddha, Living Christ + Here is my comment on this on Facebook > “(This) Quote from S&P gets to the heart of what the world needs now. The assimilation approach has been the dominant model of colonialism and a lot of suffering has been the result and it continues to do so with catastrophic consequences in many ways.”

· Thich Nhat Hanh Philosophy and Practice Facebook Group

· Videos > Plum Village Youtube Channel | Youtube Search for Thich Nhat Hanh

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | BrainyQuotes |

GEORGE HARRISON 1943-2001

In the end, you're trying to find God.

That's the result of not being satisfied.

And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got,

unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it.

And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness

unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

· georgeharrison.com | Videos | Charities |

· Video: My Sweet Lord > High Quality with Photos

· Video: My Sweet Lord sung by Billy Preston and others at Memorial Concert

· Amusing Version of My Sweet Lord with Ringo, Mark Hamill and others

· S&P Practice: a mantra based on Be Here Now | Be Here Now video

· S&P Book Excerpt: How a song by the Beatles was inspired by a verse from the Tao Te Ching

· Video: George Harrison’s Search For A Higher Truth

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | BrainyQuote | AZquotes

ANDREW HARVEY

The future of the entire human race may depend on whether large numbers of the human race can now take the Direct Path into claiming humbly their divine humanity and acting from it in order to preserve the environment and see that justice is done to the poor and starving and depressed. What is needed on a large scale, I believe, is an army of servant-warriors for peace and justice, an army of practical visionaries and active mystics who work in every field and in every arena to transform the world.

· Andrewharvey.net | Store |

· S&P Teachers Project | Quotes | Books | Video Clips |

· S&P Search | Books | Films |

· S&P Book Review of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism | Excerpt on Joy |

· S&P Movie Review: Sacred Activism

· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes | Libquotes |

EDWARD HAYS 1931-2016

Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery

that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.

· edwardhays.com

· S&P Search | Books |

· S&P Book Review of A Lenten Hobo Honeymoon

· S&P Book Review of A Book of Wonders | Excerpt

· S&P E-Course: Practicing Spirituality with Edward Hays

· S&P Film Review: A Pair of Parables

· Videos > Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads | AZquotes |

CAMILLE HELMINSKI

When Bayazid Bestami (d. 874), [a] well-known master, was asked who his master was, he said it was an old woman whom he had met in the desert. This woman had called him a vain tyrant and showed him why: by requiring a lion to carry a sack of flour, he was oppressing a creature God himself had left unburdened, and by wanting recognition for such miracles, he was showing his vanity. Her words gave him spiritual guidance for some time.

· The Threshold Society

· Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality & Equality

· S&P Search | Books | Practices | E-Courses

· S&P InterSpiritual Wisdom E-Course includes her teaching

· Videos > Threshold Society Youtube Channel | Youtube Search |

· Quotes > Goodreads |

KABIR HELMINSKI

.. human beings are unaware how far they are from their Origin. We are suffering from a kind of amnesia. Sufism is meant to lead us to the realization, not just the opinion, that we suffer this alienation from Reality. Sufism has two main objectives: to show us to ourselves as we really are, and to help us develop our true inner being, that eternal part of ourselves that can know our Origin. The human being who achieves this with divine help will experience a full life and be a blessing in this world.

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HILDEGARD OF BINGEN 1098-1179

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth

is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

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ETTY HILLESUM 1914-1943

Through me course wide rivers and in me rise tall mountains.

And beyond the thickets of my agitation and confusion

there stretch the wide plains of my peace and surrender.

All landscapes are within me.

And there is room for everything.

· Goodreads Page on The Perennial Philosophy

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ALDOUS HUXLEY 1894-1963

The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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KURT JOHNSON

The issue is how to create a sense of identity larger than ‘my interests,’ ‘my nation,’ ‘my religion,’ ‘my ethnic group.’ A holistic world-centric view would be a tall order for much of the world. Yet terms such as ‘transnational,’ ‘transcultural,’ and ‘trans-traditional’ are becoming the clarion calls of our generation.

· Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future Edited by Robert Atkinson, Kurt Johnson and Deborah Muldow | Goodreads Page | Youtube Channel | VoiceAmerica Video Series |

· Evolutionary Leaders Bio

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KABIR 1398-1518

All know that the drop merges into the ocean,

but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

CHARLOTTE SOPHIA KASL 1938-2021

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· My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.

· If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.

· The river that flows in you also flows in me.

· Wherever you are is the entry point.

Prepare for joy –

speak your truth,

care for yourself,

expand your knowledge,

nurture your friendships,

let people love you,

take on new adventures,

go where your heart leads you.

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VALARIE KAUR

Revolutionary love is a well-spring of care, an awakening to the inherent dignity and beauty of others and the earth, a quieting of the ego, a way of moving through the world in relationship, asking: ‘What is your story? What is at stake? What is my part in your flourishing?’ Loving others, even our opponents, in this way has the power to sustain political, social and moral transformation. This is how love changes the world.

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THOMAS KEATING 1923-2018

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human.

For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

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KEN KEYES JR. 1921-1995

A loving person lives in a loving world.

A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

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HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN 1882-1927

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

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PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN 1916-2004

The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

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ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

Action on behalf of life transforms.

Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal,

it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting.

As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.

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DOUG KING

If Christology is to be a gateway into a world-centric viewpoint, meaning that which Spiral Dynamics calls 2nd tier, it will have to be understood as role and function, not identity. God and God alone is Identity. Christology is that which points identity away from the self and its religious attachments. Christology as role or function points to God or that which is ultimate.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 1929-1968

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,

'What are you doing for others?'

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URSULA KING

We all need to learn a new language of the spirit

to ensure the future flourishing of people and planet.

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JACK KORNFIELD

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance.

Maybe all of it.

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JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI 1895-1986

To be aware means to be sensitive, alive to the things about one, to nature, to people, to colour, to trees, to the environment, to the social structure, the whole thing; to be aware outwardly of all that’s happening and to be aware of what is happening inside.

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RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER 1935-2023

I think of life as a good book.

The further you get into it,

the more it begins to make sense.

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ANN LAMOTT

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world –

present and in awe.

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BEVERLY LANZETTA

The call to mystical openness is echoed across millennia of humanity's wisdom;

it is the call to discover a unitary point of view

that holds the promise of a more just and peaceful planet.

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LAO TSE

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

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ELIZABETH LESSER

How strange that the nature of life is change,

yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.

And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us

are the very ones that can break us open

and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

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STEPHEN LEVINE 1937-2016

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant

than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing.

We are constantly attempting to escape our life,

to avoid rather than enter our pain

and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive.

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ALLAN LOKOS

I think the greatest gift any of us can offer to another is our complete presence. It is astonishing how many people go through life without anyone who truly listens to them. To become one who listens deeply, without judgment, without offering advice, without the need to be anything but fully, consciously present, is to become a great gift to all who cross your path. You might be the first person to actually listen to the human being who is speaking to you. You can, in such moments, change a life. When a life changes, the world changes.

· Allanlokos.com

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JOHN MABRY

There is only one thing in the universe, and you are that thing. Call it God, call it Unity, call it what you will. All names fall short (although the Hebrew name for God, YWHW, which translates, 'I am what I am becoming,' is not a bad one). All distinctions are illusory, and suffering and sin are visited upon us as a result of our buying into this illusion.

All is One, and you are that One.

· johnrmabry.com

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JOANNA MACY

To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe

— to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it,

lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it —

is a wonder beyond words.

· joannamacy.net

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JOHN MAIN 1926-1982

Silence gives our spirit room to breathe, room to be.

You discover in the silence that you love and that you are lovable.

It is this discovery that everyone must make in their lives

if they are going to become fully themselves, fully human.

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WILLIAM MARTIN

Acceptance is courageous attention turned to the nature of things as they truly are,

not as we wish them to be.

This attention enables our natural wisdom and energy

to work effectively with circumstances.

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CARL McCOLEMAN

The point behind mysticism is not to dazzle the mind with ecstatic wonders or heady feelings, but to foster real and lasting changes, for the purpose of becoming more like Christ,

which is to say, more compassionate, more forgiving, more committed

to serving others and making the world a better place.

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RORY McENTEE

New monasticism is not just a theoretical concept.

It is an orientation in life, a commitment that asks us to bring every aspect of our lives

into a living relationship with God, with the Spirit,

with the Buddha Nature-Mind, with one's deepest self.

It is a life lived with That Which Is, Ultimate Reality,

consciously at the center of everything one does.

'Who is a monk?' asks Brother David Steindl-Rast, answering,

'If the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning is God, you are a monk!’

· Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality.

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SALLIE McFAGUE

If humans do not become friends, then they will not survive.

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THOMAS MERTON 1915-1968

For me to be a saint means to be myself.

Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation

is in fact the problem of

finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

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NETANEL MILES-YEPEZ

The problem with being "spiritual but not religious" is that it is a dead-end for the spiritual seeker. Without the positive "tools" of religion, it can only describe a person's point-of-view -- expressing a sense of open wonder and personal conviction about transcendent possibilities and the numinous on the one hand, and a disinterest in, or dissatisfaction with known religious history, structures and dogmas on the other.

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PAUL MILLS

Along the evolutionary journey, in the same way that the human being must transcend egotism and embrace the universal Self, so too science must now transcend materialism and embrace ways of observation and knowing based on love and compassion.

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MOOJI

You have tried it the hard way,

now try it the heart’s way,

the effortless way, for a while. …

The Divine is not even

a breath away from you.

It can never be apart from you.

It is the core of your very Being.

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JOSEPH NAFT

There is a place that we long for, a place where we can put down our burdens, all of them, where we are free, utterly at peace, and in the arms of compassion, even as we engage in our normal duties and activities. That place is within us, in the stillness behind and beneath all that we are and all that exists. This is the changeless, the deathless, the timeless. Remarkably, it is close by, right here in our very own core. Day and night, it is always with us, always has been and always will be, ever present and not in time.

Our truth is here. Our reality is here: not on the surface, in the stillness.

· Inner Frontier

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JACOB NEEDLEMAN 1934-2022

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas."

· jacobneedleman.com

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JOHN PHILIP NEWELL

Think of the hubris of our lives.

Think of our individual arrogance, the way we pursue our own well-being

at the neglect and even expense of [others]…

Think of the hubris of our nationhood,

pretending that we could look after the safety of our homeland

by ignoring and even violating the sovereignty of other lands.

Think of the hubris of our religion, raising ourselves up over other wisdom traditions

and even trying to force our ways on them. Think of the hubris of the human species, pretending that we could look after our own health

while exploiting and endangering the life of other species ….

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KATHLEEN NORRIS

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want,

but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

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HENRI NOUWEN 1932-1996

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path

if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

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CAROLINE OAKES

The spiritual journey begins with a pause,

a centering-in-God pause,

and over time becomes a constant and ceaseless prayer,

an honoring of and a connection with the Divine in you

that awakens your essential self.

· carolineoakes.com

· S&P Book Review of Practice the Pause | Excerpt on Being Present |

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JOHN O’DONOHUE 1956-2008

At its heart,

the journey of each life is a pilgrimage,

through unforeseen sacred places

that enlarge and enrich the soul.

· johnodonohue.com

· S&P Book Review of Beauty: The Invisible Embrace: Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope

· S&P Book Review of Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

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DIARMUID O'MURCHU

The spiritual landscape we explore is both ancient and new. For us as humans, spirituality is a natural birthright, which over the millennia has been weaving a tapestry of elegance, grandeur and beauty, with the inevitable scars of an evolving universe.

At this time of global transition, we need to re-connect with that great tradition and reclaim it afresh in the context of our new evolutionary moment.

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MARY OLIVER 1935-2019

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

· Poetry Foundation Page

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CHRISTINE VALTERS PAINTNER

While we must venture far to find our “true self,” it is also always with us.

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PARKER PALMER

We are participants in a vast community of being,

and if we open ourselves to its guidance,

we can learn anew how to live

in this great and gracious community of truth.

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RAIMON PANNIKAR 1918-2010

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian,

I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist

without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

· S&P Quote > Excerpt > “To save humanity we have to become Human.”

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JAN PHILLIPS

In the process of divining our bodies,

we embody the Divine as the mystics did.

We feel the beloved in every cell,

sense the sacred one in every heartbeat, every touch,

every image our eyes encounter, every sound our ears behold.

· janphillips.com | livingkindness.org |

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PEACE PILGRIM 1908-1981

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,

you would never think a negative thought.

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RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA 1836-1886

The winds of grace blow all the time.

All we need to do is set our sails.

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· Vedanta Society of New York |

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FRED ROGERS 1928-2003

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

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RICHARD ROHR

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion

and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

· Center for Action & Contemplation | Founder: Richard Rohr | Store |

· CAC Daily Meditations

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GABRIELLE ROTH

Where we have stopped dancing, singing,

being enchanted by stories, or finding comfort in silence

is where we have experienced the loss of soul.

Dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence

are the four universal healing salves.

· 5Rhythms

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ARUNDHATI ROY

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.

On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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RUMI 1207-1273

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

· S&P Naming the Days Feature

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JOYCE RUPP

If I stay in the darkness long enough,

my eyes become more accustomed to the dark,

and I begin to see things of beauty and freedom

that I never knew were present.

· joycerupp.com | Books |

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PETER RUSSELL

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness,

and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.

· Peter Russell: Spirit of Now | The Church of I Am | Books & DVDs & CDs | Articles |

· Book: The Brain Book: An Owner’s Manual

· E-course: How to Meditate without Even Trying

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CHRIS SAADE

You and I are part of one of the greatest evolutionary leaps of consciousness. We are witnessing love erupting into global action. We are participating in a worldwide movement of engaged spirituality. What is required from us is the courage to open our hearts, unleash our love, expand our imagination, and uphold justice in the circles of our life.

· Facebook page

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· S&P Book Review of Second Wave Spirituality: Passion for Peace, Passion for Justice | Excerpt on Love: We Generation, Sacred Activists |

RABBI ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI 1924-2014

Faith is what I call a mind-move, a radical shift in awareness.

The expression 'a leap of faith' is so true.

Faith is not something we can arrive at by a careful, step-by-step process.

It is not something we can square with our intellect.

Faith does not make sense, nor does it feel safe.

It is what takes us further after the questions

that can be answered logically have been exhausted.

To have faith, we must let go.

Faith is like swimming the backstroke,

reaching above and behind is into an unknown we cannot see.

Faith is like driving forward with only the rearview mirror as a guide.

· The Yesod Foundation

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FRITHJOF SCHUON 1907-1998

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions,

for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time,

and no single view can prevent the existence and validity

of other equally possible views.

· frithjofschuon.com

· S&P Book Review of World Wheel: Volumes i-iii | Excerpt on Beauty

· S&P Book Review of World Wheel: Volumes iv-vii | Excerpt on Hospitality

· mythosandlogos.com/perennial is a comprehensive source of Perennial Philosophy books and articles. Schuon is one of the greatest teachers of the Perennial Philosophy.

· worldwisdom.com bio

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RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO

Wonder enhances life; worry shortens it.

· rabbirami.com

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HUSTON SMITH 1919-2016

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

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MIRABAI STARR

To walk an interspiritual path is to travel through the wilderness with open hands and a courageous spirit. It is to navigate with the heart and a book of prayers from every faith tradition that ever uttered a sacred phrase in any language. To travel an interspiritual path is to drop to our knees in the presence of Love wherever we encounter it, and to disarm our hearts the minute we have the impulse to otherize a faith we do not understand. To take an interspiritual journey is to circle ever inward, to a place of holy silence and vibrant stillness, and then to surge back outward with the contemplative fruits we have gathered to feed a hungry world. An interspiritual life invites us to take our rightful place at the table of the Divine in many Holy Houses, and asks that we kneel at the altars of multiple traditions and drink from the goblet we are offered, and allow it to transform us. Interspirituality is about saying YES to the sacred in every form and no form, about moving beyond intellectual orientation to active engagement with various religions, about seeking and finding the Love that unifies all paths and affirms our essential interconnectedness.

· mirabaistarr.com

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· Videos > Youtube Channel | Youtube Search | 2013 Dawn of InterSpirituality Talk |

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DAVID STEINDL-RAST

The quest of the human heart for meaning is the heartbeat of every religion.

· Grateful Living

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· S&P Book Review of Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness | Excerpt on Joy |

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE 1861-1941

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.

· S&P Naming the Days: Birthday of Rabindranath Tagore Including Quotes

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WAYNE TEASDALE 1945-2004

Humanity stands at a crossroads between horror and hope. In choosing hope, we must seed a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to life drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition and experience. We call this new awareness interspiritual, implying not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic heart beating in the center of the world’s deepest spiritual traditions.

· InterSpiritual Multiplex > this is a website & network devoted to the InterSpiritual vision of Brother Wayne Teasdale | Reflections on Brother Wayne by Gorakh Hayashi

· More websites and web pages devoted to the ongoing effort to carry out the Vision of Brother Wayne > | Global Peace Warriors Tribute | Community of the Mystic Heart > CMH Facebook Page | The Coming InterSpiritual Age by Kurt Johnson and David Robert Ord > Excerpt from TCIA | VoiceAmerica: The Convergence | One Voice Coalition |1God |

· He is credited with coining the term “InterSpiritual” or “InterSpirituality.” He was a Roman Catholic Lay monk who also became a Hindu Monk following in the footsteps of Bede Griffiths.

· Another quote describing InterSpirituality > The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions brings with it a deeply fruitful openness to learning from one another. It makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from the various religions and their application to one's own inner life and development. This phenomenon has truly revolutionary implications, especially for the real likelihood of a global culture and civilization forming that is unmistakably universal in more than a geographical sense. -- Wayne Teasdale in The Community of Religions

· S&P Book Review of The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions | Excerpt on Transformation

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· S&P Book Review of The Mystic Hours: A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom and Devotion | Excerpt on Joy | You can read about a quarter of this book with this link to a Google Preview.

· S&P book review of Bede Griffiths: An Introduction to His Interspiritual Thought By Wayne Teasdale

· S&P Book Review of Awakening The Spirit, Inspiring the Soul: 30 Stories of Interspiritual Discovery in the Community of Faiths By Martha Howard, Wayne Teasdale | Excerpt on Unity

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· S&P Book Review of Mature InterSpirituality: Wayne Teasdale’s Nine Elements – And Beyond by Kurt Johnson & others | Excerpt on Silence |

· A 2017 article by Kurt Johnson in The Interfaith Observer > “Becoming One in the Spirit: The Growing Edge of Interspirituality”

· Reprint of an Amy Edelstein Interview: Transforming the Seeds of Corruption

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PIERRE TEILHARD de CHARDIN 1881-1955

Driven by the forces of love,

the fragments of the world are seeking each other,

so that the world may come into being.

· teilharddechardin.org

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HOWARD THURMAN 1899-1981

Don't ask yourself what the world needs.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

· The Howard Thurman Papers Project of Boston University School of Theology

· Open Horizons offers Howard Thurman's Outlook on Life: Ten Key Ideas | See the Videos |

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ROBERT THURMAN

"Buddha” is not a personal name. It is a title, a state we can attain. It means “awakened,” “blossomed,” “enlightened.” It is the blossoming of all happiness and positive powers. By definition, being enlightened is a fully evolved way of living. It is perfect freedom — a freedom so total it cannot be lost even in relationships. It is perfect security, certain of its reality, perfection, and eternal bliss — it is the goal in the quest for happiness.

· bobthurman.com

· S&P Book Review of Essential Tibetan Buddhism

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ECKHART TOLLE

To meet everything and everyone through stillness

instead of mental noise

is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.

· eckharttolle.com | Books | Articles & Teachings

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DESMOND TUTU 1931-2021

God does not give up on anyone, for God loved us from all eternity.

God loves us now and God will always love us, all of us good and bad, forever and ever.

His love will not let us go, for God's love for us,

all of us, good and bad, is unchanging, is unchangeable.

· tutu.org.za

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· InterSpiritual Discussion with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu: Part 1

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LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE

Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten –

it knows the sacred that is within all that exists,

and through a depth of feeling

we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

· S&P Naming the Days Feature: Birthday of Swami Vivekananda

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VIVEKANANDA 1863-1902

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways,

yet each one can be true.

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· S&P Book Review of Swami Vivekananda: Essential Writings | Excerpt on Teachers > How to be like Vivekananda

· Wikipedia page on the 1893 Parliament of the World’s Religions which featured a famous speech by Swami Vivekananda

· Vedanta Society of New York

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ALEJANDRA WARDEN

As we become aware of the interconnectedness of existence,

we weave a golden thread that brings into our everyday life the reality of oneness.

This golden thread is the unbroken link that exists

between the One Essence and Its infinite ways of expression, Its creation.

· essentialoneness.org | Videos | Podcasts |

· Goodreads Page for Remembrance: A Vision of the Sacred Feminine and the Renewal of the Earth

· Video > Alejandra Warden on Emerging Feminine Consciousness

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ALAN WATTS 1915-1973

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity

we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility.

· alanwatts.org | Quotes | Books |

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· S&P Book Review of Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion/Myth and Religion

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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD 1861-1947

More than anything else,

the future of civilization depends on the way

the two most powerful forces of history,

science and religion,

settle into relationship with each other.

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KEN WILBER

I have one major rule: Everybody is right.

More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth,

and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included

in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

· findingradicalwholeness.com

· integrallife.com

· S&P review of The Powers that Be: Theology for a New Millenium | Excerpt on Love |

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ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS

Without inner change

there can be no outer change.

Without collective change,

no change matters.

· revangel.com

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WALTER WINK 1935-2012

History belongs to the intercessors –

those who believe and pray the future into being.

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PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA 1893-1952

Live quietly in the moment

and see the beauty of all before you.

The future will take care of itself......

· Self-Realization Fellowship