Spirituality of the Heart

Spiritual Connection Sets You Free

I got a reminder the other day—I need lots of reminders—by one of my spiritual sisters who, like my myself, had walked the path of brokenness. She said that true freedom comes from simplicity and connection.    God alone knows I’ve spent half a lifetime going my own way, striving for this or that, in the […]

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The promise of inner peace is a key component of all major spiritual traditions. Achieved, through spiritual practice, and thus a direct relationship with the living God, who is peace and love personified. Inner peace is perfect calm and balance, irrespective of external circumstances.

Listen to the inner light

Divinized, immortalized, changed into citizens of peace I’ve been too far-flung places, went sailing on a ship of fools. All firmly in the grip of the delusion that makes fine young hearts grow cold, that all would be fine and dandy, if I could just get hold of more power, prestige, and gold.  Not a drop

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Heaven on Earth

Heaven is Just a New Pair of Glasses

There is an anecdote told in a book by a sober booze hound called Chuck C, about an hour he spent over coffee with an old Jesuit priest that profoundly changed his view about where to find God. As they sat talking, the old mystic took to silent pondering and began cleaning his well-aged spectacles

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