Category Archives: Spiritual Issues

What is a Saint?

  September 20, 2012 - 1:55 pm | ,
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  Nice, useful quote via Blue Lips: “A saint is a person who practices the keystone human virtue of humility. Humility in the face of wealth and plenty, humility in the face of hatred and violence, humility in the face of strength, humilty in the face of your own genius or lack of it, humility in the face of another’s humility, humility in the face of love and beauty, humility in the face of pain and death. Saints are driven to humbling themselves before all splendor and horror of the world because they perceive there to be something divine in … Continue reading →

True Spirituality Rises Above

  September 17, 2012 - 11:22 am | , ,
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This is exactly the line for me, not just for today, but for the past several years (and perhaps the coming several years) — spirituality is not having everything perfect around you; it is rising above worldly struggles and difficulties and living a life of love and compassion in the midst of them all: “To become cold from the coldness of the world is weakness, to become broken by the hardness of the world is feebleness, but to live in the world and yet to keep above it is like walking on the water.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Understanding Time

  September 12, 2012 - 11:43 am | ,
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Sorry, if you’ve dropped in to figure out how to read a clock or something like that, we’re not covering that today. The focus today is on understanding time in a more existential way. What is time, really? In actuality, if before us was infinity, and after us is infinity, time really doesn’t make sense. If we recognize our soul as something that cannot die, time is just an illusion. Time needs a starting and ending point — without one, it simply doesn’t make sense, isn’t real. Now, within this world of ‘life’ and ‘death’, of change, we clearly have … Continue reading →