+ We are called to create and enjoy a realm of compassion, peace, justice and sustainable abundance for all.
+ When you give
food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food,
they call you a communist.
-- Archbishop
Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian liberation theologian
+ It is bad
religion to deify doctrines and creeds. While indispensable to religious life,
doctrines and creeds are only so as signposts. Love alone is the hitching post.
Doctrines, let’s not forget, supported slavery and apartheid; some still
support keeping women in their places and gays and lesbians in limbo. Moreover,
doctrines can divide while compassion can only unite. In other words, religious
folk, all our lives, have both to recover tradition and to recover from it.
This quote was used in SE242 when we were exploring the style of Compassion as a
practice of Heavenliness.
+ We have a lot of work to do
to overcome the causes of injustice on our planet. Many deny that this work needs to be
done. Many avoid it because it’s risky. Courage is definitely needed to face the
resistance. There are many like Dom Helder
Camara who can inspire us and encourage us in the
effort to expand the heavenly realm of justice on our planet. We have met several including Martin
Luther King, Jr., The Dalai
Lama, William
Sloane Coffin and Archbishop
Desmond Tutu during these explorations of the
12 Spiritual
Practices and the 9 Attributes of Heaven.
+ Spirituality & Practice offers
plenty of plenty of resources
on the practice of Justice and plenty of resources
on the practice of Peace and plenty of resources
on the practice of Connections. Also S&P provides a 12s
Gallery of Memes on Justice, a 12s
Gallery of Memes on Peace and a 12s
Gallery on Connections.
+ You can always find a link to any of the
Spiritual Explorations posts by going to http://abundancetrek.com/sepostsaccess.html
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