#wisdom_biscuit: have the spiritual life you want. I know it seems hyperbolic but nonetheless it is true: following these steps will get you what you want. While these steps can be used in many aspects of life, I will be showing you how you can apply them to your spiritual-religious-faith life. OBLIGATION TO PREFERENCE I […]
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The spiritual-religious notion of acting where one can and accepting where one cannot is transcultural. In the 1st century, Epictetus wrote Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar Shantideva said If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes, what reason is there
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#wisdom_biscuit: May your suffering always be less than your pain. My dear friend Nagy died in June. I’m broken up by it. Still. Months later. When I learned about it, I recorded a raw video about the stages of acceptance. Finally, I’m able to write about what he meant and taught me. Nagy was a
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Love L-O-V-E in four parts My best friend, Dr. Larry Keene, is a retired sociology professor and minister. We have performed countless weddings together. And, often, he gives a homily during the ceremony about the four components of love. Larry told me that he learned the basis of his homily from a psychiatrist by the name of
“It doesn’t matter if I mess up, because Aunt Sparky loves me,” said my then 8-year-old boy during the construction of a popsicle-stick gift for a visiting friend. How true. How true. Aunt Sparky’s love for him is so large that small mistakes are rendered Coincidently or not, the next day, I talked with a
Notice me as I am Last spring I received a long, convoluted, phone message for a wedding from the mother of a bride. Anxiously, she explained how the pastor had dropped out and the family was panicked about who was going to marry the couple – a justice of the peace just wouldn’t do. She
People who have helped me with my life, my resume, my graphics, my meditation practice, my music, and more… Meditation instruction Jason Siff Skillful Meditation Project Sometime in 2000, while living in Los Angeles, I met Jason, the founder of The Skillful Meditation Project. Jason helped me to UNLEARN the baggage that I had
Rabbi Brian: There is another take on this, which is that HOPE is the most heinous of all evils as it portrays that there is a chance that things will change. Vaclav Havel (who didn’t write in, but someone submitted it in his name): Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope,
(I have written on this quote before. But it’s worth revisiting.) In my classroom on the wall, there is what seems at first like an absurd quote, but it is quite a poignant truth. “Fire has heat, the sky has clouds.” Like you, my students are initially unappreciative of the depth of this quote by
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ESWB is a serious drug that many people are addicted to. People of all walks of life are hooked on ESWB. Worse than that, it is LEGAL and few people are taking action to counter it. Your loved ones are addicted to ESWB. Your neighbors are addicted to ESWB. Even you, possibly without you knowing