As happens too often, modern culture gets it exactly backwards when it comes to Learning and Growth, assuming yet another commodity to be acquired for its practical or monetary value.  But the wisdom teachings and spiritual traditions of the world would have us see a deeper dimension to learning and growth.  The depth dimensions of learning and growth are about a lifelong process of becoming more aware, more conscious, more sensitive to the inner reaches, more at home in the world.  “I have never let my schoo

Love has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Love and compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which Love is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which Love is to bless us now.

salvation, n.  A saving or being saved; preservation from destruction, ruin, loss, or calamity.

Opening Reading:

"The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."

- from the Tao Te Ching, chapter 8

Opening Reading:

Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go and do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman

Opening Words:

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

Opening Reading:

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that the passing there had worn them really about the same,

Opening Words:

“A fire-mist and a planet, a crystal and a cell, a jelly-fish and a saurian, and caves where cave-men dwell; then a sense of law and beauty, and a face turned from the sod, -- some call it Evolution, and others call it God.”

Opening Words:

"We do not have to think alike, to love alike."

- From the Unitarian Francis David, 1510-1579