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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground. — Christina Rossetti
We are talking about Holy Ground this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
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“The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.” —Stephen Covey
We are talking about Holy Ground this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
“In the fall of 1988, I worshiped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground….I will not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and blind us.” —John Shelby Spong
We are talking about Holy Ground this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
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We are talking about Holy Ground this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
“Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground. As much as possible, I want to walk in peace.
“I want to walk lightly, even joyfully, through whatever days I am given. I want to laugh easily. I want to step carefully in and out of people’s lives and relationships. I don’t want to tread any heavier than necessary.
“And throughout life, I think I would like to walk with more humility and less anger, more love and less fear. I want to walk confidently, but without arrogance. I want to walk in deep appreciation. I want to be genuinely thankful for life’s extravagant, yet simple, gifts – a star-splattered night sky or a hot drink on an ice-cold day.
“If life is a journey, then how I make that journey is important. How I walk through life.” ― Steve Goodier
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We are talking about Holy Ground this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
There seems to be something within us that is always searching. The pull is so strong it leads us to churches, spiritual teachers or even halfway around the world to “sacred sites” on a spiritual pilgrimage. We are looking for a place, that “holy ground” where we believe we will find God.
What drives us in our search for God? Do we really believe that God is “out there” somewhere?
I believe we are born knowing our oneness with God and each other. As we are trained and educated by our culture and the world we begin to forget. We lose our sense of oneness with God and may begin to feel “lost.”
Are you looking for Holy Ground? That sacred place where God is? I have good news! It’s closer than you think. You don’t have to search or give anyone money to find it. You are standing on it, in it.
The presence of God is over, under, all around and within you, your family, friends; even your enemies. You see, the journey is not an external one, to a holy place somewhere outside ourselves. The journey is within. Stop, stand or sit quietly and breathe. Quiet your mind, listen, feel and experience the presence of God.
This month we will explore ways to remember we are always on Holy Ground. Please join us.
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We are talking about Holy Ground this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.” ~ Sri Yukteswar Giri
We are talking about Divine love this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
“Dive deep. Learn to love God. Plunge into divine love.” – Ramakrishna Paramhansa
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“Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others. . . Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems. It frees us from every kind of binding. It makes us speak truly, think truly, and act truly. It makes us feel one with the whole universe. Divine love purifies our hearts and glorifies our being.”– Meher Baba
Joseph Lillie just started a discussion in The Espirational Community. Come join us… this is going to be a good one!
I don’t quote a lot of Scripture here, but sometimes something from the Christian Bible speaks strongly to our monthly topic.
“16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.” — The Bible 1 John 4:16-21 NIV
We are talking about Divine love this month in The Espirational Community on Facebook. Please consider this your invitation to join our community and participate in the discussion of this timely topic.
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