Sunday

 “God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.” 

~ John Shelby Spong

 We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

Being Love

Mantras

 In Buddhism, the word mantra means “mind protecting”. A mantra protects the mind by preventing it from going into its’ usual mechanics, which often are not our desired or optimal conscious perspective.

 "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

~Victor Frankl, was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor

 “If your understanding of the divine makes you kinder, more empathetic, and impels you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this is good theology. But if your notion of God makes you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it leads you to kill in God's name, it is bad theology. ” 

~ Karen Armstrong,

 Spiritual understanding only comes from the understanding of the divine within self, and the attempt to correlate same will always bring the development of self mentally and spiritually. For those who call upon God will not find Him afar off but ever present and ready to answer the self as is found in the inner man. ‪

#‎Edgar Cayce‬ reading 28-1

 “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” 

― George Harrison

The recording of this music video took a turn for the amazing when a homeless man kneels in worship and adds his powerful impromptu vocals. Probably the most inspirational thing I have viewed this week.