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William Blake, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection
I am in you and you are in me, mutual in love divine.
Mutual in love divine
Abraham Twerski, The Busy Soul
When we share with others, their joy becomes ours.
Their joy becomes ours
Ram Dass, Still Here
I'm explicitly making my life a teaching, by expressing the lessons that I've learned through it so it can become a map for other people. Everybody's life could be like that, if they choose to make it so; choose to reflect what they've been through and to share it with others.
Making my life a teaching
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Silence
When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes.
When you fail to share your joy
Muriel Rukeyser, Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection
My lifetime listens to yours.
My lifetime listens to yours
Michael Berg, The Secret
The only way to achieve true joy and fulfillment is by becoming a being of sharing.
The only way to achieve true joy
Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim
This adoption of companions became a feature of Muslim life, in which the two companions, referred to as "companions in Allah", shared their spiritual, emotional and material resources. Some of the features of this practice could become the basis for pretty exciting and meaningful companionships.
The adoption of companions
Untie the Strong Woman
"In Blessed Mother's view, all are lovable; all souls are accepted, all carry a sweetness of heart, are beautiful to the eyes; worthy of consciousness, of being inspired, being helped, being comforted and protected — even if other mere humans believe foolishly or blindly to the contrary.
"If, following in the pathways laid down in the stories of the 'old believers,' if after the old God Yahweh Jehovah who seemed to spend inordinate time creating and destroying, thence came to us in huge contrast, the God of Love — then Our Blessed Mother is the ultimate Mother Who Gave Birth to Love.
"She is the Mother who ascended whole, the Mother who has lived through wars, conquests, conscriptions. The Mother who has been outlawed, done outrage to, squelched, carpet bombed, hidden, stabbed,
stripped, burnt, plasticized, and dismissed.
"Yet she survived — in us and for us — no matter who raised a hand against her or attempted to undermine her endless reach. She is writ into every sacred book, every document of the mysteries, every parchment that details her as Wind, Fire, Warrior, Heart of Gold, La que sabe, the One Who Knows, and more.
"And most of all, she is writ into our very souls. Our longings for her, our desires to know her, to be changed by her, to follow her ways of acute insight, her sheltering ways, her trust in goodness — these are the evidences that she exists, that she continues to live as a huge, not always invisible but palpably felt, force in our world right now.
"Even when she was una desaparecida, disappeared by thugs and dictators over the many decades of the so-called Cold War, which was really a time of darkness meant to destroy the voice of souls across vast lands, we dreamt of her at night regardless.
"We saw her colors and her flowers, her roses, morning glories, lilies, bluebells, marigolds, and more appear at the side of the darkest roads, despite being told she was gone and never existed to begin with.
"We espied her on the roadway through the trees. Our Lady of the Birch Grove basilicas, Our Lady of the Sycamores, Our Lady of the Shrine of the Pines, Our Lady of the Redwood Cathedrals. She remained with us, even though outlawed for us to even think of her, to even imagine her. She was there nonetheless, for she is the quintessential Mother who does not, will not, leave her children behind.
"Even when her cottages and groves and vias, pilgrimage roads, were erased from maps, or renamed, or plowed under, she appeared to us in our travails and moments of white-heat creating anyway — pulling something stubborn from the ground of us, helping us to let die what must die, helping us to let live what must live.
"She will share her breath with us when we feel we have lost ours. She will warm us when we are too cold, and cool us down when we are too hot — in emotion, in spirit, in mind, in ideation, in desire, in judgment, in the creative life of the soul. She tells us to be gentle, but she will tell us too, 'Be friendly, but never tame.'
"All we have to do is ask and she will be there in ways that we may see/feel immediately. Or, we may have to reach toward her, apprehending her in a new, not at first completely comfortable way.
"St. Francis of Assisi was said to have rushed from cave to cave crying out in lamentation that he had just lost his God and could not find Him any more. But God told Francis He'd been there all along, that Francis had to learn to see God in all His many guises."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes on how the Blessed Mother is written into our souls.
The Way
"Kabbalah teaches that transformation means becoming a being of giving and sharing. This refers to more than acts of sharing. It means connecting with the Light, becoming one with the Creator, and making your essence and the essence of the Creator one and the same," writes Michael Berg, one of the key figures, along with his father Rav, at the Kabbalah Centre which has branches in many countries and a website, www.kabbalah.com. He has just completed producing an English translation and commentary of the Zohar, the comprehensive text of this 5,000-year-old tradition.
Berg believes that the mystical wisdom of this way speaks to the modern condition and is filled with practical tips. Kabbalah teaches that the creation of the world is an on-going process and that we are in partnership with the Creator. The whole point of life is to share with others the bounties we have received. The tools and the teachings of Kabbalah can help bring about this transformation in us. According to Berg, self-serving desire is the single barrier that separates us from the Creator and it comes in many forms. Money, Fame and Power are three. None of us can cast off this desire but we can turn it around by giving ourselves to others. Or, as the author puts it, "At least half of what we do in the world ought to be directed toward assisting others."
In a thematically rich chapter, Berg presents the 12 Laws of the Way, which include hear the voice from above, realize that we are always being tested, be never satisfied, use death as motivation, and don't judge others. We are especially drawn to the idea that we're all in this together, which means that the goodness we put out for others has a positive and transformative effect on the whole world. An even more relevant spiritual truth is that self-serving desire is one of the basic causes of what Berg calls a "circle the wagons" state of mind built upon fear and paranoia. True sharing, according to The Way, is the antidote to this malaise.
Presents sharing as a practice that gives meaning to lives and helps make things better in the world as well.
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