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What are you most thankful for when you look at your life?

For some reason a question began to form in my mind as I woke up this morning and consciousness began to return. The question is: “What am I most thankful for as I look at my life?” Just for fun, here’s my answer. I am thankful for the meaninglessness I felt as a young man [...]

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Listened to your inner voice lately?

“The eye must be something like the sun, otherwise no sunlight could be seen; God’s own power must be inside us, how else could godly things delight us?” — Goethe I love these words of the great German philosopher, Wolfgang Goethe. They stir my body and my soul. I lived for 34 years in a [...]

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Touching the hand of God one quiet night

How I touched the presence of God one evening long ago in a hidden cove in British Columbia.

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Get off “the endless path” — and be free

As the great poet Rabindranath Tagore tells us, we find the Truth quite easily when we stop searching and are still.

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There is a gracious hand on our lives

There is a gracious hand on our lives that is not interested in destroying us, but in helping us come to a place of true freedom and peace where we realize our oneness with the divine.

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The joy that waits on the other side of disillusionment

The author describes how he emerged out of disillusionment and depression into a new experience of wholeness and happiness – the truth of his own eternal being

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A Prayer of Gratitude for my Body

Author Christopher Foster expresses his gratitude for the miracle of his own human body and the many blessings it provides, including the opportunity to know God in human form.

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Life’s surprises — can they lead to greater wholeness and happiness?

Did I get a surprise when I came home from the coffee-shop and saw a beautifully maintained, but very old John Deere tractor parked beside my front yard. Made me think about how life is full of surprises — and it’s important to handle those surprises rightly.

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A middle way to God?

“We are becoming a nation of spiritually anchored people who are not traditionally religious,” said Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, recently.  She was commenting on a 2009 poll that showed interest in organized religion has been dropping in the US — but more people are exploring new spiritual frontiers. It [...]

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