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Kay Lindahl’s The Sacred Art of Listening

This blog post is one of quotes and comments. With fascinating bits of scientific research results, combined with illustrations by Amy Schnapper that gently lead the mind beyond the verbal realm, Kay Lindahl, founder of The Listening Center, distills the wisdom of long experience of study, practice, …

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Why I shuddered while reading Don Quixote

Arts, Science, Spiritual experience

I blissfully believe in God. That is enough in the minds of some people for me to be classified as mentally unbalanced. I also delight to believe in angels and in healing, thus making me suspect in the minds of some believers. I even thrill to accept what the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8 that …

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Re-visioning science and religion through the lens of Jesus’ parable of the talents

Science, Spiritual experience

I know this author, and my review includes a few personal facts that will help readers appreciate this book, which has filled me with enthusiasm. In a dangerous world where accelerated and often chaotic change makes life more difficult, it is harder to find meaning and to achieve wholeness and …

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Sometimes art says it better than words

Arts

When I’ve been at a conference and gorged myself on presentations, I like to refresh my mind by getting outside, perhaps noticing the local architecture, and visiting a gallery. While attending the Parliament of the World's Religions, I was most grateful to discover immediately north of the enormous …

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Suspending mind-and-brain momentum through prayer

Science, Spiritual experience

The current tangle of planetary problems calls for many prompt readjustments of human values. From material and intellectual to spiritual levels, we need an integrated vision of truth (from scientific to spiritual), beauty (from natural and artistic to spiritual) and goodness (from material …

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My new vision after the Parliament of the World’s Religions

Morality, Spiritual experience

The visible and invisible dynamism was palpable on spiritual, intellectual, and practical levels. Spokespersons for religions largely presented themselves in terms of universal values, rather than advertising their own wonderfulness. And the overall goal was to mobilize a spirit of unity in …

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