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Week 52: Living Religiously
Living Religiously
Living religiously is living in harmony with the divine. We may see the divine as the highest good and the most important values; life's central concerns. Each of the values in this model is a part of ... Read More about Living Religiously
Living a Sacred Calling
A sacred calling is a person's sense of being drawn into the life activity that best fulfills the person's commitment to the most meaningful thing(s) in the person's life. It expands on ... Read More about Living a Sacred Calling
Ineffability
Suffering, cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. [Mohandas Gandhi, October 13, 1921] . . . those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of ... Read More about Ineffability
Living Purposefully
As a young man, I had a vision of how life might be - how I wanted it to be. I made some choices, sacrificing some things for other things, with a wordless conviction that the path of my life would be ... Read More about Living Purposefully
Living with Good Direction
The intellectual component of the sacred anchor is direction: the rules by which we live. Many people omit this from their conception of the sacred or religious life, mentioning only meaning and ... Read More about Living with Good Direction
Living with Meaning
A conception or vision of the sacred is an anchor and a means of orientation as we navigate through life. In the emotions, that anchor is a sense of meaning. "What does my life mean, and why does my ... Read More about Living with Meaning
Living a Sacred Life
Every thinking person must be filled with wonder and awe just by looking up at the stars. [Albert Einstein] For a Humanist and scientific naturalist, the palpable reality of life is sacred; and if ... Read More about Living a Sacred Life