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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

Do the Right Thing

  September 6, 2012 - 2:35 pm |
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  Do the right thing. It’s a basic note, but if we all just followed this simple directive, what a different life we would lead. The beauty of this is, if we look deeply into ourselves, we almost always know what the right thing is. In fact, if we look deeply enough, one might say that we always know. So much of the time, though, we let our mind get hazy, we let our judgement sit in the back corner of our mind, and we lose our focus on what is important. But with this key thing in mind, “do … Continue reading →