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Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with fac...more

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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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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of ...more

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The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bot...more

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Flexibility is just as essential for divinity as is discipline. Your job, then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors...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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Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the...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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I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same ...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