Feast Day of St. Francis De Sales born: 1567–died: 1622
Patron saint of journalists.
Video – Song – Wings of Desire
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them–every day begin the task anew.”
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
January 22, 2010 Multi-faith, Multi-Media Daily Devotional
Song: “O quam preciosa” de Hildegard Von Bingen Sung by Anonymous 4 (video)
It matters not in the slightest to the Creator, I think, whether we are offering ourselves as individuals or as a group, as Christians or as Buddhists or as nothing in particular. What [...]
January 21, 2010 Daily Devotional
Meditation Video: Relax Snow – Kokin Gumi – Zen Garden
How many mystics have suffered from feeling abandoned by God! In reality, God didn’t abandon them; it was they who failed to remain conscious of his presence. God never abandons us; it is within our own consciousness that these [...]
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY
Song: We Shall Overcome sung by Mahalia Jackson (video)
Song: Go Down Moses by Louis Armstrong (video)
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I [...]
WORLD RELIGION DAY
One God Power Point and Song (from World Religion Day website)
Video: Starscapes–Galaxies–Galaxy Desires
Spirit and Stardust
A Speech by U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Praxis Peace Institute Conference Dubrovnik, Croatia Sunday, June 9, 2002
As one studies the images of the Eagle Nebula, brought back by the Hubble Telescope from that place in deep space [...]
Video – Handel: Water Music — allegro.
With these outflowings, river-like, with deltas
that spread like arms to reach the open sea,
with the recurrent tides that never cease
will I acknowledge you, will I proclaim you
as no one ever has before.
— Rainer Maria Rilke from the poem Dedication translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
The Rainer [...]
Video – The Beauty of Nature
Winter Feast for the Soul starts today.
January 15 — February 23
The inspiration for the Winter Feast of the Soul came out of a three-line Rumi poem:
What nine months does for the embryo,
Forty early mornings
Will do for your growing awareness.
Based on the success of the first Winter Feast in Idaho [...]
Wake and listen … from the future come winds with secret wingbeats.
- Nietzsche
