Intimacy with the Divine isn’t about joining a church. It’s not about knowing your religion’s doctrines, tenet by tenet. It’s not about knowing your holy writings, backward and forward, in their original language. It’s not about knowing the Divine as a theory or abstraction.
Intimacy with the Divine is more like making love than joining a club, hearing a lecture, or reading a book. There are simply some things we must experience for ourselves.
If Grace is True
Philip Gulley
Mediterranean Hellenization
The fourth century BC conquests by Alexander the Great in the Middle East started the process of Hellenization throughout the eastern Mediterranean that would last long after formal Greek rule.
Practice of Hellenization
Hellenization is the practice of making the world Greek in terms of culture and thought. Hellenization spread quickly through language, religion, politics, law, theater, education, philosophy, cultural centers, trade, government, and most importantly, through local Greek city-states.
How Jesus Became Christian
Barrie Wilson
What you are now is the result of what you were. What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now…
No one can do more for you than your own purified mind – no parent, no relative, no friend, no one. A well-disciplined mind brings happiness.
Mindfulness In Plain English
Bhante Gunaratana
The Tao that can be told
Is not the everlasting Tao
The name that can be named
Is not the everlasting name
Nameless is the virgin of all things
Named is the mother of all things
Free from desire we see subtleties
Not free we see only things
The two are the same
Yet arise as two
A oneness called dark
Dark beyond dark is
The doorway to all subtleties
Tao Te Ching
The Divine Feminine: Tao Te Ching
Rosemarie Andersdon
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the mysterious mental capacity to be aware of the wandering of the mind. It illuminates what the mind is doing.
Breathing
In mindfulness of breathing, our intended direction is to stay focused on the breath – each breath in and out. Because we have this conscious intention to focus on the breath, it becomes obvious when we are going off course.
Mindfulness for a Happy Life
Robert Beatty
Who Knows Anyhow? 