Ritual Prayer

Prayer is one of the central elements of spiritual practice and religious worship. A rite or ritual is a carefully prescribed procedure and generates common emotions. Ritual prayer is recitation. In Islam, ritual prayer is called šalat, a word whose full meaning is best understood by examining its linguistic root, …

Tao Te Ching – 44

Which is more important, your honour or your life? Which is more valuable, your possessions or your person? Which is more destructive, success or failure? Excessive love for things exacts a great cost. If your happiness depends on accumulating wealth, you will never truly be happy. What you gain is …

Tao Te Ching – 53

If I had the least bit of wisdom I would follow the path of Tao quite well My only fear would be trying to go my own way The Great Path is simple and direct yet people love to take the side-routes See how magnificent the courts have become The …

Programmed For Victory

Our minds are similar to a computer – both function according to its programmer. Programmed with bad information, poor software, and susceptible to viruses even the most powerful computer will malfunction … and our minds too. Even worse, just like a computer virus, we can pass the virus to friends, …

Edging God Out

Focused on the past or future, never now, caring for appearance and image above all else – ego is based on the single belief that we are separate from everything and everyone … that we are not whole … that we are incomplete. “A mind not to be changed by …

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