![]() Marguerite Porete…had the nerve to enter a zone of absolute spiritual daring in which the self or ego dissolves. ![]() It falls on humans to create a better world… A truer reality beyond and above this world.can be recognized only by those who bear equal respect to all human beings.whoever they may be. “Simone Weil’s political and moral vision always looked beyond her own earthly sphere of existence… Absence of joy, she suggested, is the ‘equivalent of madness.’… To revolt against God because of human misery is to misrepresent God as a ‘sovereign’ or tyrant who rules the world, as opposed to a deity who has laid down his power. Thirty-One Days of Peace This document emerged out of collaboration with Pace e Bene in celebrating the International Day of Peace in 2021.Īn Endless Seeing (behind paywall), The New York Review of Books, January 13, 2022, Jacqueline Rose. ![]() +++++ …It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation. The thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence, as well as by speech, not only by what they did, but by what they forbore to do, shall abide in beauty and strength, to reorganize themselves in nature, to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours, in fuller union with the surrounding system. However, toward the end, he voices some criticisms of “ all these of whom I speak (who) are not proficients they are novices …” But he concludes with: Will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?. Sufi Ruhaniat International “dedicated to helping individuals unfold their highest spiritual purpose, manifest their essential inner being, and live harmoniously with others, with the hope of relieving human suffering and contributing to the awakening of all of humankind.”įrom "The Transcendentalist," by Ralph Waldo Emerson NOTE: In this lecture, which Emerson delivered at the Masonic Temple, Boston, in January 1842, he vividly describes the young Transcendentalists of his day with great sympathy. Plum Village “A global community of mindfulness practice centres offering retreats and teachings on engaged Buddhism and the art of mindful living, founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.” Kaira Jewel Lingo “a Dharma teacher who has a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice.”
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