Understanding I open myself to spiritual understanding. When I feel frustrated by a personal or professional challenge or feel unsafe or concerned about a situation or event, I seek greater understanding. When I try to understand, I open my heart. Maybe I just need to gather more information or request the advice of someone…
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Spirituality from Daily Word “Mindfulness” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria “Estar presente”)
Mindfulness I live in a state of presence. When I am not acting mindfully, my attention may feel scattered. When I am in a state of presence, however, I feel deeply connected. I eat mindfully, listen with an open heart, and make wiser decisions. In these moments of connection, I feel resilient, resourceful, peaceful,…
A Mystical Prayer to start the day
God of My Heart, in the silence of the day that dawns, I come to ask of you peace, wisdom, and strength. Today may I look at the world with eyes filled with love. May I be patient, understanding, kind, and wise. May I see your children beyond appearances, as you yourself see them, and…
Perfect for our times the old parable and the poem of the “Blind Men and an Elephant”
“Blind Men and an Elephant” The parable of the Blind Men and an Elephant originated in the ancient Indian subcontinent, from where it has been widely diffused. The first version of the story itself is traceable to the Buddhist text Udana 6.4, dated to about mid 1st millennium BCE. According to John Ireland, the…
Wisdom quote: about “the center of our being” by Dag Hammarskjöld
In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it…
POEMS: “Feel your feelings” by Fred LaMotte
Feel your feelings It is good, it is very good to feel precisely what I am feeling, even grief, and despair. For when I am completely what I feel, there is transformation and healing. No darkness left to penetrate, for I am all night. This is how light is born. This is how…
Spirituality from Daily Word: “JOY” (Espiritualidad de la Palabra Diaria: “Gozo”)
Joy My heart overflows with joy. Joy is more than the expression of happiness. Happiness is a result of being joyful. Joy is an inner quality, always available to me, no matter my circumstances. Even in a time of sorrow, I reach within and find the joy that is part of my very nature…
POEMS: “IF” by Janice Salois
Benjavisa/Getty Images : “Heart Alchemy” “IF” If only if would disappear, I’d live in the now. Be present – right here. If only if did not exist, I’d quit rewriting the past with a twist. If only if would go away, I’d stop regretting things I can’t unsay. If only if would loosen it’s grip…
Wisdom quote from Neale Donald Walsch on “the human heart”
.. “that the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. Vaclav Havel said that and he was right. Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God’s Son, yet is not the human…
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “Living it”
“Living it” First and foremost, you must listen to your own rhythm, and try to live in accordance with it. Be attentive to what emerges from deep down. Often, our actions are only imitations, fulfillment of an assumption of duty, or a reflection of what we believe a human being “should” be. But the…
MYSTIC POEMS: “Listen politely to your dear heart” by Badshah Khan
Rubayiat Al Thurab (Verses of the Dust) – 84 BismillahIr RahmanIr Raheem Listen politely to your dear heart, Its Speaking to you’ Its uttering the language of eternal love. Heed to your dear heart, Its a boundless wealth of righteous, Your heart, habitually recite the sacred words. The sacred words of your divine creator Keenly…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “In the Garden of Time”
“In the Garden of Time” […..] Some of our deepest wounds, Are judgments, self-inflicted, Endless paper cuts upon our spirit, Made by an inherently imperfect ‘self’, Despising its imperfection. When in fact, the green-stemmed fruit, The infant petals in a sheltering bud, Are as they should be, in their time, On schedule to arrive, in…
