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  • Leaders are encouraged to prepare for the workshop not only by gathering supplies and reviewing the workshop's activities, but also by completing the reflection and sharing from Activity 3, and possibly also from Activity 4, with one another or with a friend or colleague. You may wish to journal...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • I call that mind free, which escapes the bondage of matter, which, instead of stopping at the material universe and making it a prison wall, passes beyond it to its Author, and finds in the radiant signatures which everywhere bears of the Infinite Spirit, helps to its own spiritual enlightenment....
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • After the workshop, co-leaders should make a time to get together to evaluate this workshop and plan future workshops. Use these questions to guide your shared reflection and planning: What were some of our favorite moments of the workshop? What were some of our most challenging moments?...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Leaders are encouraged to prepare for the workshop not only by gathering supplies and reviewing the workshop's activities, but also by completing the reflection and sharing from Activity 3, and possibly also from Alternate Activity 2, with one another or with a friend or colleague....
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Listening is a creative force. Something quite wonderful occurs when we are listened to fully. We expand, ideas come to life and grow, we remember who we are. Some speak of this force as a creative fountain within us that springs forth; others call it the inner spirit, intelligence, true self.
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • After the workshop, co-leaders should make a time to get together to evaluate this workshop and plan future workshops. Use these questions to guide your shared reflection and planning: What were some of our favorite moments of the workshop? What were some of our most challenging moments?...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Leaders are encouraged to prepare for the workshop not only by gathering supplies and reviewing the workshop's activities, but also by engaging in communal worship as an intentional spiritual practice. Arrange to experience worship in your congregation or elsewhere—in a place where your...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • The miracles of... church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. — Willa Cather In most...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • After the workshop, co-leaders should make a time to get together to evaluate this workshop and plan future workshops. Use these questions to guide your shared reflection and planning: What were some of our favorite moments of the workshop? What were some of our most challenging moments?...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Leaders are encouraged to prepare for the workshop not only by gathering supplies and reviewing the workshop's activities, but also by practicing centering, prayer, or meditation....
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. Certainly there is a right for you that needs no choice on your part. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into your life....
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • After the workshop, co-leaders should make a time to get together to evaluate this workshop and plan future workshops. Use these questions to guide your shared reflection and planning: What were some of our favorite moments of the workshop? What were some of our most challenging moments?...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • Leaders are encouraged to prepare for the workshop not only by gathering supplies and reviewing the workshop's activities, but also by practicing centering, prayer, or meditation....
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • The things that are holy and sacred in this life are neither stored away on mountaintops nor locked away in arcane secrets of the saints. I doubt that any church has a monopoly on them either. What holiness there is in this world resides in the ordinary bonds between us and in whatever bonds we...
    October 15, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • These UU-friendly resources can be helpful as you continue to grow in spiritual practice. Addison, Howard A. Show Me Your Way: The Complete Guide to Exploring Interfaith Spiritual Direction. Skylight Paths Publishing, 2000. Rabbi Addison, who received spiritual direction from Catholic sisters and...
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • Bowens-Wheatley, Marjorie, and Nancy Palmer Jones, eds. Soul Work: Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue. Skinner House, 2002. Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. New Society, 2002. Leonard, Richard D. Call to Selma: Eighteen Days of Witness. Skinner House,...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • In the days and weeks to come, try these tips for using social justice work as part of your spiritual regimen. Don't try to do it all. Remember the definition of ministry offered by the Protestant minister and novelist Frederick Buechner: "the place where your deep passion and the world's deep...
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • Alexander, Scott W., ed. Ev… Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life. Skinner House Books, 1999. Bass, Dorothy C., ed. Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997. Brussat, Frederic and Mary Ann. Spiritual Literacy: Reading the...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice
  • The following tips can help you develop spiritual awareness in the everyday. Celebrate what you're already doing. Look for something you're already doing that you can begin to think of as a spiritual practice, in spite of (or perhaps because of) its mundane quality. Add gently. Don't try to make...
    Taking It Home | October 14, 2015 | For Families | From Spirit in Practice
  • Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. Sark. Sark's New Creative Companion: Ways To Free Your Creative Spirit. Celestial Arts, 2005. JacksonPollock.org...
    October 14, 2015 | From Spirit in Practice