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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Six High Ideals
"Rosh Ha-Shanah is a time for us to contemplate our highest ideals and our actual behavior. We make amends to ourselves, to one another, and to God for the gap." So writes Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artso…
Parochial Prayer
By Eleanor Goetz in the KidSpirit Power issue.
Three hundred forty-five years ago Roger Williams declared, “forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils.”
Williams was a 17th-century English …
Renewable Hope
Literary Wisdom
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
-- Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
Teacher Wisdom
Trust …
On the Bouncing Life
Artistic Wisdom
Inspiration is a flash of fire in the human soul. . . . Honor it at all costs.
— Phil Cousineau in Stoking the Creative Fires
On the Side of Life
Zen Wisdom
Buckle up and drive safely.
Arrive and give thanks.
That is Zen.
— Philip Toshio Sudo in Zen 24/7
Nobility to Respect
Buddhist Wisdom
Ancient trees, water, and wind join my hand
to bring light to this moment.
— Barbara Kipfer in 201 Little Buddhist Reminders
Nearly Two People
By Olivia Baliey
Someday, everyone you love will die.
You probably stared at that sentence for a minute, didn’t you? What a way to begin an article. So morbid. So terrible and cruel.
Meeting the Moment as a Friend
This is one of my favorite practices. It's one that Sylvia Boorstein, one of our Living Spiritual Teachers, uses regularly — reciting, usually silently, these two sentences:
"May I meet this mo…
Making the Most of Every Day
Catholic Wisdom
Praying is our daily appointment with wisdom.
— Thomas Merton quoted in Hanging Onto Hope by Melanie Svoboda
Looking for God
Mystical Wisdom
A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.
— Madeleine L'Engle in Suncatcher by Carole Chase