“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”
Archives for July 2006
The Practice of Loving Kindness
Loving Kindness meditation One of the hardest things about suffering is the feeling that we are trapped in our painful circumstances–lost, hopeless, and alone. We fear our suffering will go on forever, and that there is no way out of it. And when we don’t know how to transform or heal our own suffering, we…
Covered in memories
COVERED IN MEMORIES I’ve written about such foolish things before. Stories about “stuff.” I am a sentimental man. Notice I didn’t say sentimental “Old” man. Truthfully, I’ve been this way all of my life. I get attached to things in my life. Not for the sake of owning many things, but I feel this natural…
significance of others
I can’t be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others. Hugh Prather
Receive divine light
Devotional imaged have great power to inspire us when we pray. This exercise suggests some ways in which you might relate to an icon, statuette or painting – example, a picture of Jesus or the Virgin Mary, or a figurine of the Buddha or a Hindu god such as Shiva. 1. Place the image or…
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