A Newsletter for Your Spiritual Nature
Communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
Our spiritual nature is to hope and dream and visualize and to connect to our purpose in life. It’s the trigger that motivates us to encounter, discover, create, and synthesize meaning, purpose and values in our lives and to seek a greater good. It enables us to access unconscious aspects of the self and to embed these higher meanings, values, and purposes in living a richer and more creative life. It makes us whole, and gives us our integrity. It helps us ask fundamental questions and reframe our answers. It transforms us.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
— Matsuo Basho
Original - I AM AN ORIGINAL.
I am blessed with a unique blend of talents and interests that have helped me find my special place in the world.
As I have traveled my path, I have learned from people I’ve met, places I’ve visited, and choices I’ve made. Together, my experiences have helped me shape my perspective, fuel my passions, and give meaning to my life.
Like everyone, I am a spiritual being. But I am also an individual, expressing my divinity in ways that are unique to me.
No one is exactly like me, and I give thanks today for all the ways I can share my spiritual nature, innate gifts, and blend of life experience through my relationships, my work, and my service. I am an original, and it is my joy to share myself and make the world a better place.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith.—Romans 12:6
I once saw a cartoon depicting two Buddhist monks seated side by side in a meditation hall. An older monk was muttering something to a younger monk out of the corner of his mouth. The young monk looked dumbfounded. The caption read: "Nothing happens next. This is it."
— Clark Strand in The Wooden Bowl by Clark Strand
To Practice This Thought:
Be present right now. Don't think about what's going to happen next.
The prophet is endowed with sensibility, enthusiasm, and tenderness, and above all, with a way of thinking imaginatively. When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? We’ve braved the belly of the beast; we’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace. God will visit the iniquities of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation. We know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation. Our blunders become their burdens. But one thing is certain. If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy, and change our children’s birthright. Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid. Let’s learn to appreciate the creative envisioning the prophets undertake through their relationship with God.
May peace fill your life so love will overflow,
Rev Robert
(adapted from: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Amanda Gorman)
We need impact for transformation. Don’t mistake the cracks for a flaw in the design. The flaw is in the perception that wholeness is lost.
ALEXA ALTMAN
Contemplative Interbeing
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Thank you, Robert
Contemplative Interbeing
