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Rumi - Living a Spiritual Life
Commentaries and audio meditations revealing the universal spiritual teaching in Rumi's unforgettable metaphors.
Walking as a Spiritual Practice
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake," Wallace Stevens once said. I'd make that a "walk around the city." I love to walk and have made it a daily part of my spiritual practice. Mary …
The Journey of the Soul in the Teachings of Rumi
A deep exploration of key themes that form a coherent whole in the Sufi mystic's literary and spiritual legacy.
The Patience to Bear Sorrow
In these times, resilience is enjoying a great deal of support from scholars of psychology as a personal quality that enables people to bounce back from trauma and loss. But in an essay on aeon.co, …
The Power of Peace
Protestant Wisdom
Peace does not come rolling in on the wheels of inevitability. We can't just wish for peace. We have to will it, fight for it, suffer for it, demand it from our governments as i…
The Main Thing
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
— Stephen Covey, American educator and businessman
The Art of Living Well
Unitarian Wisdom
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.
A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. . . . Floating down …
Save the Last Dance for Me
There was a time in my life when I believed that dancing was a natural gift that you were born with or not. My father was an accomplished dancer who in his eighties could whirl my mother around the …
Paying Attention, Prayer Flags, and Relaxing Yourself
As the summer sun bears down upon us, I turn to the ever edifying and adventuresome harvest of quotations from the books I read and recommend.
The first two are from Barbara Brown Taylor, an Angl…
My Shoulders: Issues in the Tissues?
When I was a teenager I remember being told by my parents and other adults to stand up straight. But my shoulders were already rounded and my chest caved in as if I were hiding.
Jonathan Fields,…