Never Truly Lost Or Found
Suffering is so deeply part of the DNA of Jewishness. It’s why our prayers are all in a minor key!- so says my former rabbi.
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Autumn & Emptying The Cup
There’s a way that in this yellowing, all of that can begin to putrefy, fall apart, and be turned to dust. The particles of light which comprise this dust, the alchemical scintilla, are one of the true symbols on the alchemical or mystical path, emanations of the activity of the Ally as it incarnates in time and space by way of emotion, image, and pure feeling.
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Notes On the Sagrada Família
I wonder if that separation is what first aroused his thirst. I wonder whether from the window he longed for the teeming, reckless, beautiful, extravagant world below—crawling with insects, bursting with flowers, everything flashing in the sun and rustling in the breeze. Maybe his architecture was a way of abolishing that early distance.
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Journey to the Divine: A Near-Death Experience
Heaven was an experience more than it was a place. I felt an overwhelming sense of love that penetrated every fiber of my being.
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Goddess In The Woodpile
A lot of creatures like to shelter under a woodpile, and I was amazed at all that boiled out as I carried the wood from a loose pile to my new stack: wood crickets, skinks, just-hatched fence lizards, a field mouse family, wolf spiders . . . I was slow and let them all find their new places.
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.