Spiritual Texts

In this section we will regularly present texts from all horizons which we hope will help those who are on a spiritual path to progress and to broaden their perspective on what constitutes spirituality which many people tend to encompass in rather narrow limits.

We want all readers to feel welcome and included, and while in these texts we will use “God“ whenever an author chooses that term, we should like to point out that there are many, many different names and attributes for deity: divine or cosmic Love, Creator, Source, Infinite Mind, Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, Great Spirit, It, Universe, Principle, Father-Mother, etc. etc. So please choose what best resonates with you!

Imagine Something Better

Imagine Something Better

Author Sarah Bessey names the need to be “for” something good, not merely “against” what is wrong: Imagining and contending for what you hope for in this world is one of the hardest and kindest paths I’ve discovered out here. In the midst of all this, don’t forget to...

Expanding Our Images of God

Expanding Our Images of God

Author Shannon K. Evans finds in Julian of Norwich a model for how to expand our images of God: To Julian of Norwich, feminine depictions of God were not radical, subversive, or rebellious. They were obvious, inevitable, and clear. She didn’t feel the need to defend...

Excerpt from “Keep Going or The Art of Perseverance”

Excerpt from “Keep Going or The Art of Perseverance”

Joseph Marshall III, Lakota writer, historian, teacher. "A young man asked his grandfather why life had to be so difficult sometimes. This is the old man's reply. "Grandfather says this: 'In life there is sadness as well as joy, losing as well as winning, falling as...

Let Your Light Shine: The Path to Collective Healing and Love

Let Your Light Shine: The Path to Collective Healing and Love

Things are not always as they seem. And in our life, we may have the tendency to jump to conclusions or go by appearances. Yet, many truths are hidden and need to be revealed. Our inner guidance needs to be attuned to as it is not always obvious. Yet when we are open...

To those I love and those who love me

To those I love and those who love me

When I'm gone, let me go!Let me go.For I have so much to do and see!Don't cry when you think of me!Be grateful for the beautiful yearsDuring which I gave you my love!You can only guessThe happiness you've brought me!I thank you for the love everyone has shown me!Now...

Mending the World

Mending the World

CAC teacher Mirabai Starr writes of Judaism’s affirmation of tikkun olam—human participation in the world’s restoration: There is a kabbalistic story in which the boundless, formless, unified Holy One wished to know its Holy Self, and so it contracted and poured...

We are Here to Love

We are Here to Love

We are here to love and not to hate,To seek the paths of peace, not war,To forgive and not to avenge,To learn deep life lessonsFrom each other. We are here to learn the laws of Love,The laws of Wisdom,The laws of Truth,The laws of Justice,The laws of Goodness,The laws...

The Sun Is Always Shining

The Sun Is Always Shining

If darkness has fallen, know that the sun is shining at this very moment, somewhere not too far away.There are times when gloom or darkness causes us to momentarily lose sight of the light. It is at these times when the thought of the sun can help us. Its warm,...

The Five-Point Upshift Manifesto

The Five-Point Upshift Manifesto

We are sharing a few passages from an inspiring message from Ervin Laszlo: Humanity’s Sacred Mission – 5 Point Upshift Manifesto.Please click on this link to read the entire...

Our Souls in Service

Our Souls in Service

Physician and teacher Rachel Naomi Remen invites readers to a deeper commitment to soul and service:It often seems that the problems in the world are large and overwhelming and there are limits to what we can accomplish as a single person or even as a single group. It...

Don’t give in to gloom and doom

Don’t give in to gloom and doom

No, I won't give in to gloom and doom.My power is laughter, joy, the awareness that something greater vibrates behind the media and the world's dramas.No, I'm not a better person if I suffer with those who suffer.No, I'm not a bad person if I choose to be happy no...

The Prayer of Yes

The Prayer of Yes

by Bunny McBride, from her book Earthshine: Gifts of Reflected Light There is a life force within your soul;seek that life.There is a gem in the mountain of your body;seek that mine.~ RumiSome years ago, darkness came over me like a lunar eclipse. It began in the...

New Year, New Opportunities

New Year, New Opportunities

Joanna Macy (b. 1929) has worked for decades to support the Great Turning, a movement towards life-sustaining cultures and economies. She writes:When a change wants to happen, it looks for people to act through. How do we know when a change wants to happen? We feel...

A Place to Worship

A Place to Worship

Dr. Stewart Bitkoff Magnificent Monastery For the longest time, I wished that I had a church, temple, mosque or synagogue to attend. I could find no special place that called to my heart and helped my soul sing. In years past, there had always been a place: top of a...

Mindfulness of Love

Mindfulness of Love

Buddhist practitioners Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward invite us to engage the breaches of the world with the “mindfulness of love”: The mindfulness tradition calls us home to our true hearts and minds, to the realization of our true identity and our connectedness to...

What If?

What If?

What If?there was a place where we could practicerespecting religious differences while honoring sameness?Perhaps then we could . . .recognize the face of our brother and sisterbeyond color, dress or language. What if?there was a place where we could...

Compassion

Compassion

The following  excerpt was shared during the 2023 Interfaith Compassion Challenge organized by Servicespace.org and is from the foundation of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It was offered by Ray Davis. He is a singer/songwriter, actor and Qabalist. He lives with his...

Excerpt on Gratitude

Excerpt on Gratitude

from Principles of TransformationIntroduction by Fred Burks, Founder of Peers Though I have worked as a language interpreter for George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and many other world leaders, I am in my core a deeply spiritual being committed to personal and global...

Being Judgemental

Being Judgemental

Eckhart Tolle (excerpt)"It is impossible to bless and to judge at the same time. So hold constantly as a deep, hallowed, intoned thought that desire to bless, for truly then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall, everywhere, behold the very face of...