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Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

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So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of unin...more

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I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you ca...more

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Culturally, though not theologically, I’m a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great tea...more

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I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything thi...more

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[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils....more

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But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pi...more

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The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees. For hours a day, the sa...more

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But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the ...more

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In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going...more

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Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.

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I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because ...more