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| Awareness The human mind has the unfortunate habit of rushing from one point of anxiety to the next point of anxiety, skipping over all the peaceful moments of life. We look ahead, either to expected dangers or joys, filling the present moment not with the rich experience of actual life, but with an abstract mental existence of expectation and worry. |
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| Charity Charity is mis-used if it’s characterized only as the powerful giving to the weak. Instead charity should recognize the spiritual truth of the inter-connecedness of all existence, and be viewed as one part of creation giving to its larger self. |
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| Compassion Compassion, meaning “feeling with” is not simply pity felt at the sufferings of others, it involves the higher spiritual truth of seeing the other as ourself, and the universal condition that affects us all. |
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| Enough In a paradox of spiritual health, we must never be satisfied with anything less than the complete fulfillment of our ideals, yet we must also admit the likelihood that those ideals will be unfulfilled during our lifetimes. We must learn to achieve what we can, individually and collectively, and then peacefully name it, “enough.” |
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| Gratitude The feeling of gratitude is essential to healthy spirituality. We must say thank you for our good fortune with as much enthusiasm as we curse our ill fortune and then recognize the deeper gift of gratitude that puts us in touch with the spiritual goal of connection to a caring something larger than ourselves. |
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| Happiness The possible goals each of us might name for our spiritual journey: salvation, release, peace, justice are numerous but they seem to all relate in some way to a goal of happiness: happiness for ourselves and for others. What does it take to make a person happy? |
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| Hope Hope acknowledges that we can't know the future, and thus can't assume that everything will turn out for the best, but also affirms the possibility of future joy. Nurturing hope gives us both a dream for the future and a stir to action in the present. |
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| Memory As we live we change the planet and change the circumstances that future generations will face in their living. Our challenge is to live in such a way that each of us indivudally and our generation as a whole will leave a positive legacy for those who remember us. |
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| Power Are we powerless and blown where the universe tosses us or are we powerful and capable of setting our own course? Every religion or spiritual system can be defined by who or what has the power. |
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| Purpose Each individual is called to add their unique life to the ongoing creation of the universe, both in fulfilling our own goals, and in contributing to the divine goals. |
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| Vision Vision is essential to spiritual health. It’s important that we know we’re we going as we choose an appropriate path. That doesn’t mean knowledge of the future, but rather, clear imaging and intention-setting of goals we want to achieve. |
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