Tag: world religion
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September 23, 2006 10:38 AM EDT --
The Baha'i Faith is the most recent of the world's independent monotheistic religions. It's origins go back to 1844 and now has more than five million adherents in 236 countries . . .
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May 06, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
That's right, we live in an imperfect world, and it's much worse than it needs to be. Religion is the salvation of the world and at the same time its downfall.
Here's how I got there. . . .
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November 10, 2007 11:35 PM EST --
It occurs to me I have been remiss, forgive me, and have overlooked
the fact that I have permission to teach, from, minimally, my late mentors
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and Dr. Alexander . . .
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February 10, 2006 04:29 PM EST --
I find myself utterly disturbed by the hype over the cartoons about the prophet Mohamed. To me such reaction is nothing but an act of despicable bullying. I am amazed at the fact that we the Muslims . . .
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December 03, 2006 08:53 PM EST --
We Americans in general do not know who we are as a people over a span of 1600 years. Following our language (English for the dominate culture) where were we 1600 years ago? We were still in Germany as . . .
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July 19, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
I couldn't sleep around 5 a.m. so i put on Anderson Cooper,
he had a report called "God's country",
it seems 85% of Americans consider themselves Christian,
there are the . . .
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November 19, 2005 11:35 AM EST --
I spent the major portion of my life as a liberal.
Severe traumas served to move me off that remote "island".
Now in retrospect, of course I view . . .
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June 30, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
There are some titles best never used. Some stories best never told. Perhaps this is one of them. The small room in which he wrote was unusual from almost any perspective, but then perspective is what . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
The BrahmaKumaris - the philosophy, the perspective and the purpose
Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya, (Brahma Kumaris in short) is a unique Vishwa Vidyalaya (university) and a well . . .
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October 14, 2008 01:40 PM EDT --
It took me forty-seven and a half minutes this morning to attain some reasonable semblance of consciousness, marked by the emergence of this question. Given my current circumstance, I'll not summarize, . . .
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October 17, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Even in the midst of chaos and confusion, a little light appears to shine. This morning I watched as two Grackles perched upon the roof across the way, seemingly watching while basking in the early morning . . .
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October 30, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
He sat, rather then stood, alongside the country road, at the end of a long slow curve to the right. Cross-legged and reasonably comfortable, he appeared, except for his obscure location out in the middle . . .
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April 12, 2007 09:52 AM EDT --
Hi! All Friends and Groups! I am so glad to finally be back on gather! After being out of town for awhile and upon returning, it took 6 weeks for . . .
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June 27, 2008 01:51 PM EDT --
"I met a young woman just a few moments ago and looked into her soul, deeply. Her heart cried out as if to say, " Abandon everything and come to me. Come to me, my Love, Come to me. " . . .
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October 18, 2008 02:15 PM EDT --
One of the few gifts that we, as human beings, have been blessed- That set us quite apart from the rest of creation, is in our ability to respond. Being touched, We touch back. Rather it was said, " . . .
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October 29, 2008 06:04 PM EDT --
He mused as he packed the trunk of his car for what might prove to be his final journey, but he couldn't get her out of his mind. Everywhere he looked, there, was her face. And it didn't particularly . . .
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November 08, 2007 09:20 PM EST --
I just met an 'old friend', online, with whom I have never 'been', face-to-face. I was, in fact, 'introduced' by yet another 'online friend'. If you wander on over . . .
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October 01, 2008 09:58 PM EDT --
Prologue:
Part of this is a story written a few weeks ago on the fly, based on a vision, contemplative-state experience, during meditation. Part was firmly grounded in actual experience, . . .
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October 02, 2008 01:34 AM EDT --
Caught up as I was in a chain of inspired moments, after having written a new series of articles or submissions, and adding to others, I appeared to be having a heart-attack. In a few short moments, . . .
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October 12, 2008 03:16 AM EDT --
For the first time in three years I am driven, nearly speechless, in pain. It is like the space metaphor we used to hear about so much. You know the one, " In space, No one can hear you scream. " . . .
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