Practical spirituality to live with meaning, purpose and authenticity.
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Mission
The mission of this blog is Connecting to the Divine Source and/or finding the Divine Spark with us to cultivate skills of well being and find meaning and purpose in life. This blog explores different spiritual wisdom traditions. Spirituality is sometimes defined as the ongoing unfolding personal experience or journey of connecting to the transcendent, sacred dimension, God, Universe, or Divine Source. The blog also explores worldwide religious traditions and psychology to cultivate skills of well being.
GOD
People have different names for God. Some believe that God is Unknowable to the human mind and cannot be named or fully understood. Bishop T.D. Jakes delineates between people having experience of God yet the inability of the human mind to explain God. Paramahansa Yogananda describes God as Love, Consciousness, Absolute Existence and Ever New Joy. Dr. Maya Angelou defined God as “All” and that the soul yearns for the All. In this blog, the key assumption is there is the Divine Spark in all of us and we originate from All and eventually return back to All. .
Divine Spark
Christianity refers to “Divinity within” as the Kingdom of God. Buddhism refers to “Buddha Nature” at the core of each person. Hinduism talks about the “Atman” (soul) inside each person. Western psychology paradigms, such as, Dialectical Behavior Therapy developed by Marsha Linehan discusses the “wise mind” , intersection of rational and emotional minds, which is center of inner wisdom and knowledge. Donald Winnicott talks about the authentic self emerging from the “false self”
Recent Posts
HOW AGAPE LOVE SAVED MY FATHER’S LIFE?
There is agape love in the world. People doing heroic things and saving other people’s lives with no personal gains. I have an unique story of agape love that saved my father’s life. My family and I celebrated Ramananda (Ram)
Finding Hagar: God’s Pursuit of a Runaway
I recently read Dr. Michael F. Kuhn’s brilliant book, “Finding Hagar: God’s Pursuit of a Runaway”. Dr. Kuhn has lived for about 25 years in different parts of the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon) and North Africa. He is a professor,
Interview with Dr. Sherry Ruth Anderson: Women’s Spirituality
I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Dr. Sherry Ruth Anderson on the themes of women’s spirituality and aging based on her two books. Sherry and Patricia Hopkins (1991) published “The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the
About Me
I am a human being on my own journey, just like the rest of the people on the planet.
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