spirituality | spirituality
Nov.18.2009
Emmy Award-winning actress, Leigh Taylor-Young, and I will present “Gathering of the Spirit of Peace in All” at the Parliament of the World’s Religions 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. The Parliament was first held in Chicago in 1893 and brings together the world’s religious and spiritual...
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Nov.15.2009
Passion! How many situations, now or in the past, have you found unsatisfying? Which ones did you force yourself to get used to even though you did not like them? Was it something you immediately rejected and then found that you had to satisfy the needs of someone else? If something you are doing...
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Nov.12.2009
As a member of the online community of Shelfari.com, I receive regular inquiries that ask, "Should I read The Shack?" From now on, I'd like to point the inquirers to a brief review here...
The Shack creatively tackles complicated spiritual challenges, such as how to forgive when...
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Oct.31.2009
An abundance of good is a wonderful thing when acknowledged and accepted as a normal aspect of your life. The Universe gives freely of Itself and does not consider abundance as a factor in Its giving. The Universe is constantly expanding and there will always be more of it to give, which is...
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Oct.15.2009
Book Notes: (1) How to Believe in God and (2) Sinners Welcome
(1) How to Believe in God is a book that sees the word God as only a word—a word, nonetheless that expresses universal presence and love extended to all people, believers and non-believers alike. A presence, too, the only presence...
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Oct.11.2009
Another blog post about the eastern concept of "Surrender."
There seems to be two extremes in human cultures, especially western culture. On the one hand we have people who are so completely self obsessed that -- even without knowing they are doing it -- they simply use others to get what...
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Oct.07.2009
Life is based on personal choices, for better or worse, and the desire to see them through to completion. Sometimes it is easy to bring about change, perhaps, but a clear idea of what you desire to experience is essential. Limitations that have been in place for as long as you care to remember must...
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Sep.24.2009
On the same day that Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, my Uncle Lendward Griffin, Sr., also left this world for greener spiritual pastures. Once the news of his death sunk all the way in, I thought to myself, Wow, he left this world in some really fantastic company.
Uncle Len was...
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Sep.17.2009
I have watched a number of friends, family members, and public officials over the past few years argue with themselves about how much they do or do not believe in love because they, in some terrified hour, had reached the conclusion that without forgiveness there can be no love and forgiveness is...
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Sep.16.2009
Learn to forgive and forget. That’s what my grandmother always told me when I was a child. It all seemed so easy then. When you’re young, nothing is so important that it can’t be pushed aside, and besides, your attention span is so short, things are usually forgotten in the space of a day any...
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