A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Via Path To Peace & Happiness / FB:
“If
you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best
spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the
opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and
understanding.” ― Dalai Lama
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma December 8, 2012
Participating in Divinity
When
we make the effort to understand what may seem strange in the religious
practices of others, we may find that it opens the door to something
beyond the particular case, something quite general: the capacity of
humans to participate in divinity.
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- Robert Bellah, "The R Word"
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