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To Each Their Own Journey By Rajvi Khanjan for KidSpirit's Fulfillment Issue "A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." — Zen proverb I remember the first day of ballet very c…
The Wolf Is the Gift By Lyla Rae Cheary Change is the biggest Baddest Wolf
To Be and Do Something New "The spiritual practice of transformation holds within its wide embrace the personal renewals that come with a spiritual awakening, a conversion, a mystical epiphany, or an enlightenment. It cove…
The Sky's the Limit The word "democracy" can be traced back to the Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos "the people" + -kratia "power, rule." The people rule — but what kind of people? If most people who make up a democrac…
The U.N. Report on Climate Change Is a Call to Action for Spiritual Activists The recently released UN report "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability" makes it clear that the effects of global warming are already here with food shortages, droughts, and vi…
The Patience Stone Ritual This ritual was inspired by a film we reviewed, The Patience Stone, which itself was inspired by the Persian myth Syngue Sabour (patience stone) about a stone into which you can shed your misfortune…
The One Great Sadness We can then see our own suffering as a voluntary participation in the one Great Sadness of God. . . . Within this meaningful worldview, we can build something new, good, and forever original, whi…
Teaching Moments Poetry It is a kind of love, it is not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes . . . — Pat Schneider in "Patience …
Spiritual Progress Literary Wisdom You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars: you have a right to be here. — Max Ehrmann, American writer and poet
On the Edge of a Maybe Happy New Year. Here's a prayer I return to often at moments of transition, beginning, and renewal. It's by Ted Loder from his book Guerillas of Grace.