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We attend a postmodern meeting, and everyone leaves happy because everyone at the meeting was able to express himself or herself, even if no decisions were made. We give equal awards to our kids so nobody feels left out. Our news media is more concerned with the question, "How did that make you feel?" than any other. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Prior to postmodernism, it was all but impossible to claim that one was a cultural Christian, Jew, or Muslim. There was no such thing. Now, being culturally religious is a widely accepted stance. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
It is almost impossible to get anyone with a postmodern slant to say "I think" and stand by what follows, without making sure that the person listening understands, "Of course, there are other things to consider. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Once we got closer to the origins of these Eastern practices, we found that the monks and swamis were just as dogmatic and paternalistic, just as literal and conservative in their approach to spirituality as the Christian priests and ministers we were trying to get away from. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
The pre-rational view of spirituality is irrational because it is based on pre-rational worldviews, such as the magical, the belief that individual thoughts and actions directly influence the outside world ("If I dance, it will rain"); and the mythical, which is belief in unverified dogma, a worldview that usually includes a belief in an external power that can be asked to change outcomes ("If I pray to Jesus, he will intervene in my life"). ~ Gudjon Bergmann
...rationality can easily unveil the futility of life and lead to depression - as the stereotype of the extremely smart, but world-weary, educated man (often portrayed as a detective, philosopher, or doctor) suggests. As such, the rational worldview has its limits. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
The trans-rational spiritual approach is a simple concept with wide-ranging practical implications. There are three major components involved: (1) not denying rationality, (2) pursuing the experience of a peaceful internal state, and (3) allowing that inner peace to guide behavior. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Western spiritual seekers began picking and choosing from Eastern philosophies based on their preferences. Wanting to get away from myth and dogma, they mixed and matched, shook and stirred, mashed and meshed, blended and juiced . . . and in the process, well, they lost their way. They created a number of philosophical inconsistencies. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Saying, "I don't agree with you," or going so far as to say, "I think your belief structure is childish," does not amount to persecution. Insensitivity is not the same as harassment or oppression. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Obviously, not everyone in Texas attends church for purely social or nostalgic reasons. There are still plenty of people here who feel the need to advertise their allegiance to God by telling me that they are good Christians, by continuously posting prayer pictures of Jesus on Facebook, or by telling me that no matter how ethically I live, I will surely go to Hell if I don't accept Jesus Christ into my heart. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Only direct experience of the peaceful internal state will remove doubt and provide enlightenment - not in a spooky, out-of-this-world kind of way, but in a rational, let's-turn-on-the-lights sort of way. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
By exclaiming that "there are no absolute truths" the postmodern stance is also claiming that the statement it just made is an absolute truth - trying to have it both ways, rejecting absolutism with absolutism. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the more perspectives you can entertain - the more empathy you can show and the better your ability to see things from a variety of viewpoints - the higher you land on these scales. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
A trans-rational definition of spirituality therefore encompasses these two elements. First, uncovering our peaceful internal center, and then, allowing that peace to guide our actions in the world. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
... in the latter half of the twentieth century, postmodernism upended everything. Universal truths were no longer accepted. "Truth" (postmodernism loves quotation marks) was instead a social construct that depended heavily on cultural context. Nothing was either true or false, but was instead open to interpretation. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
For a number of people, church attendance seems to be primarily a social affair, the act of meeting other people outside of the pressures of work. For others it is pure business/politics. I get it. It's important to have access to a community like the one a church provides. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
...no matter how liberal a church may seem, Christian dogma still revolves around an ancient, paternalistic image of God the Father, who quite frankly isn't much more believable than the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. ~ Gudjon Bergmann
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped - it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him. ~ Eugene H. Peterson
The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this ancient concept, and in so doing helps bridge the worlds of modern science and spirituality, which is one of the most urgent tasks of our time. ~ Larry Dossey
Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer. ~ Bernice Morgan
Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony. ~ Richie Havens
In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life. ~ James E. Faust
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. ~ John Podhoretz
Love is the strongest angel. Hate is the ugliest demon. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. ~ Voltaire
This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge. ~ Ezra Taft Benson
Christ, he thinks, by my age I ought to know. You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook; somehow he thinks that's what Norris is, and he feels an irrational dislike taking root, and he tries to dismiss it, because he prefers his dislikes rational, but after all, these circumstances are extreme, the cardinal in the mud, the humiliating tussle to get him back in the saddle, the talking, talking, on the barge, and worse, the talking, talking on his knees, as if Wolsey's unraveling, in a great unweaving of scarlet thread that might lead you back into a scarlet labyrinth, with a dying monster at its heart. ~ Hilary Mantel
[ ... ] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write, to understand things at a depth I can reach in no other way, pushes me to write and go on writing, even when my wants - for an easier or more sociable life, or one less exposed and fraught - are certainly well known to my rational mind. p.293 ~ Stephanie Dowrick
Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there's a crisis. ~ Pamela Christian
The way
to your spirit
is through your body. ~ Ashley Asti
The soul is beautiful and blissful. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt ... ~ Mark Twain
Every brick being thrown at me i will use to build my empire! ~ Jenaitre Farquharson
Only a fool believes that nature's only purpose is to serve and obey. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
There are endearing people who come into our lives and leave a soul print. ~ Leta B.
If you cannot appreciate the sky, you cannot appreciate the stars.
If you cannot appreciate the stars, you cannot appreciate the universe.
If you cannot appreciate the universe, you cannot appreciate nature.
If you cannot appreciate nature, you cannot appreciate people.
If you cannot appreciate people, you cannot appreciate God. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful - being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational. ~ James Branch Cabell
Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption. ~ Jennifer Sodini
Seedlings of life sometimes come out of the fertiliser of what was left behind. ~ Gillian Duce
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel. ~ Anthony De Mello
Time is the bridge between life and death.
Truth is the bridge between illusion and reality.
Trust is the bridge between confidence and fear.
Conviction is the bridge between doubt and belief.
Certainty is the bridge between hesitation and assurance.
Knowledge is the bridge between facts and reason.
Wisdom is the bridge between intelligence and spirituality.
Integrity is the bridge between character and reputation.
Emotion is the bridge between contentment and desire.
Joy is the bridge between happiness and excitement.
Desire is the bridge between need and want.
Urgency is the bridge between action and indecision.
Consequence is the bridge between deed and outcome.
Freewill is the bridge between fate and chance.
Light is the bridge between humanity and divinity.
Infinity is the bridge between nothing and everything.
Peace is the bridge between war and reconciliation.
Purgatory is the bridge between Heaven and Earth.
God is the bridge between faith and science. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The consequences are not trivial: It means that rational thinking has little, very little, to do with risk avoidance. Much of what rational thinking seems to do is rationalize one's actions by fitting some logic to them. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get. ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers right and left, and the voice is delightful glory in endless contemplation. ~ Clement Of Alexandria
The world is in God's heart, the universe is in God's soul. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
People easily believe in the transition of energy, image and voice through the air, and into their laptops and smartphones, but not in the transition of thought. And they easily accept the possibility of cloning animals and humans, or transforming them genetically, and even making hybrids with different species, but refuse to accept that we may be a hybrid of two or more alien species as well. ~ Daniel Marques
Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time. ~ Janet Gallagher Nestor
Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is. ~ Catharine A. MacKinnon
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. ~ Margaret Atwood
Living in a spiritual manner, exhibiting a joyous and mindful embrace of the manifold wonders of an earthy existence, enhances life. A person develops spirituality by spending solitary time thinking about the larger issues in life. Scripting a personal philosophy for conducting a person's life is a spiritual testament. A spiritual person seeks a system of general truths that encoded statement transforms their character. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way. ~ Ram Dass
Keeping silent when you witness injustice is to act against your own spirituality, because nothing exists apart from your inner world. ~ Daniel Marques
The world's greatest men and women are those who solve the world's greatest problems. ~ Matshona T Dhliwayo
Surrendering: The act of giving yourself entirely to a new self, and then let go of your personal freedom for the achievement of something greater than you had before, a new you, a new self, envisioned and designed by yourself. Surrendering, to a God or to a Dream, or to both, is the ultimate act of designing your new future and then letting go the present reality to live that dream. It is, indeed, the creation of a virtual reality in which one will find himself present, after detaching from the previous reality, which will then become virtual by default. Because, as one cannot surrender without accepting, one cannot get without letting go. And so, when one surrenders entirely, he becomes entirely new. ~ Robin Sacredfire
To be human is to be whole, but to fail to see this wholeness. ~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Always let your heart shine bright, because this inner light will guide you home, even in the darkest night. ~ Jennifer Sodini
Krishna assures Arjuna that his basic nature is not subject to time and death; yet he reminds him that he cannot realize this truth if he cannot see beyond the dualities of life: pleasure and pain, success and failure, even heat and cold. The Gita does not teach a spirituality aimed at an enjoyable life in the hereafter, nor does it teach a way to enhance power in this life or the next. It teaches a basic detachment from pleasure and pain, as this chapter says more than once. Only in this way can an individual rise above the conditioning of life's dualities and identify with the Atman, the immortal Self. Also, ~ Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like. ~ Noor Iskandar