For many people, religious language is failing. New words are being used to refer to similar religious ideas.
Tag: words
The “Ahman Prayer”: Toward a Mormon Contemplative Practice
There is no genuine contemplative practice in Mormonism, an inner meditative gaze deep in consciousness. I offer a possible format for a uniquely Mormon practice.
1 Corinthians 13, BHT: The Supreme & Eternal Nature of Love
Paul writes about Love.
Online Meditations, Friend Chats, and New Meetups
Experience is essential on the mystical path. Words are insufficient to know the Divine. Let's meet together to facilitate experience and support each other.
The Value of the Written Word for Good, for Love in Action?
What good is the written or spoken word for uplifting lives and awakening? Is it a means through which we can actively express Love and help bring others to Love?
“I Did Not Write This”: the Mysticism of Spiritual Writing
How could I write something that I did not write? Great question. I'm trying to figure that out too.
Holy, Whole, Health, Heal: Words of our Oneness or Nonduality
Sometimes the relationships between words, and their origins, can help us understand them better.
Does Language Construct Reality, or our Perception of Reality?
Language often constructs our perception of reality. As the philosopher William H. Gass once said, "The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words." Or so they try.
“A Thousand Sweet Breaths of Silence” by Rumi
Deep within me a thousand sweet breaths of Silence
cover my lips and say—
"Be Still."
Is there a better word for “God”?
The word "God" can be off-putting to many today. It seems to be laden with baggage of what many throughout history thought was God but what we have discovered is not probable. The idea of a supernatural deity, often a man with a long white beard, living out in the cosmos somewhere, is not possible to many modern minds.