Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality.
Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality. Decide to become capable of spirituality, freedom, love, good.
Begin with humility. Assume that you are ignorant, that every one of your assumptions are incorrect. That everything constructed by society is false. Begin by admitting that you are bewitched, seduced by whatever you are most fond of. Fight the idea that the greatest thing in life is to satisfy your interests or needs.
“By foregoing beauty for goodness, power for love, grief for gratitude, by entreating the Lord for help to understand our hopes, for strength to resist our fears, we may receive a gentle sense of the holiness permeating the air."
Abraham Heschel
Spirituality Meetings
The majority of people no longer belong to any spiritual community, yet we all still need spiritual fortification. We need places to awaken the spirit and charge ourselves for bringing soul into everyday life. Can we construct a practical spirituality for the disaffected modern person, holding each other accountable for the lives we lead?
Join us in spiritual community:
– Insights on spiritual reality
– Initiation: Question and challenge the way you structure your life (?)
– A task (problem to address)
– Reminder of primary challenges: Relationship, understanding, politics, money, culture
– The Impossible Dream by Don Quixote
– Celebration with reading aloud and song
– Identify idolatry and delusion
– Friendshape and Relationship review
– Who are you?
– Comparison, challenges and support of religions
– Accomplishment (Review of your position)
– Remember glimpses of the eternal
– Repent for the harm you have done or suffered
– Remember things of importance in your own life
– Decide on an action
– Offer every desire and attachment into fire
The Core of Religions
The goal of the Core of Religions is to recognize the tremendous living fountain of insight at the center of wisdom traditions.
Conventional religions are powerless to check the modern religion of materialism. Wisdom should not be hoarded. Religions are our birthright, and belong equally to everyone. They are the common storehouses of wisdom, from which we may draw our own portion.
Invite your religion to participate in The Core of Religions
Focus on the central truths of your faith
Direct knowledge or experience is needed
Tradition or dogma is of secondary importance
Reject unthinking obedience to leaders or traditions
Relationship to other religions
Promote respect for and knowledge of other religions
Collaborate with them in sharing your unique insights
Cultivate personal identity
Expand one’s identity beyond age, gender, race, nation-
ality, and religion
Cultivate the ‘rare senses’ for seeing beauty, courage,
truth, and relationship
Bring spirituality into everyday life
Work for just conditions, not just relief of needs
Encourage followers to express this in their practical
life, including work and leisureCreate a place for Implications
Create a physical place for customers to explore the
Implications of this business.
Collaborate with other religious groups
Celebration of the Good
Reading aloud of great spiritual works, including those by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Heschel and John Ruskin.
“In the cloud of the human soul there is a fire stronger than the lightning, and a grace more precious than the rain.” John Ruskin
"Spirituality means aliveness. Spirituality is never a private affair. Grateful living is a building of networks upon networks. It’s a communal affair, and it’s revolutionary." Brother David Steindl-Rast
“By foregoing beauty for goodness, power for love, grief for gratitude, by entreating the Lord for help to understand our hopes, for strength to resist our fears, we may receive a gentle sense of the holiness permeating the air." Abraham Heschel
Meetings on God, the Sacred, Prayer, Faith
“To find God you must know how to love, not God, but the human beings around you, the trees, the flowers, the birds. Then, when you know how to love them, you will really know what it is to love God.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
“O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe. It has so infused its strong enchantment into nature, that we prosper when we accept its advice, and when we struggle to wound its creatures, our hands are glued to our sides, or they beat our own breasts.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To witness the perpetual marvel of the world’s coming into being is to sense the presence of the Giver in the given, to realize that the source of time is eternity, that the secret of being is the eternal within time.” Abraham Heschel
Spiritual Community
Can we construct a practical spirituality for the disaffected modern life?
Are you okay with living your life as it is given to you? Or will you dive into the sea of the real? Go ahead, lift your head above the languid sea. Tell yourself: I am going to live. Greet the day with promise. Smile in the face of mortality.
Join us in Visionary Spiritual Community
Religiosity for the modern age
The majority of people no longer belong to any spiritual community, yet we all still need spiritual fortification. We need places to awaken the spirit and charge ourselves for bringing soul into everyday life. Can we construct a practical spirituality for the disaffected modern person, holding each other accountable for the lives we lead?
Program (Details forthcoming
– Convocation
– Celebration with reading aloud and song
– Insights on spiritual reality
– Identity idolatry and delusion in your own life
– Who are you?
– Challenge and support of existing religions
– Remember glimpses of the eternal
– Remember important events in your life
– Repent for the harm you have done
– Integrate your life experiences
– Comparison of spiritual practices
– Weekly review of your position in life
– Decide on an action
– Closing ceremony
Pledge
Listen to what is within
Look for the essential quality
Seek out the good. Find the good in anything.
Lift your eyes above the horizon
Never humiliate anyone
Find out how you agree with others, not how you differ
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Overcome your mere identity
See others as the expression of the divine
Smile with a genuine smile
Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
(Should we include basic pledge for politics, money and culture, which after all are very involved with this)?
Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day champion a limited form of love. Don't cut yourself short. There is an even better kind of relationship.
Are you fed up with politics, but still want to be involved in the issues of the day? Is government that recognizes heart and soul possible?
