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“Everything started while I was at University of Idaho,” Odom wrote. “Spring 2014 was my final semester and was taking a heavy course load. I was very stressed due to the intensity of my schedule, so I searched for a way to cope. I discovered meditation, which seemed to help, so it became part of my daily routine. As I learned more about meditation ( Read more... )

23--what are your most powerful spiritual experiences? if you've transitioned to a different religion/spiritual philosophy, did you recontextualize the experience in any way? did the power or depth of an experience diminish at all due to a transition? if so, why?

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9-- deities: if a god (or gods, or goddesses, or some other kind of divine entities) has ever factored into your spirituality, what drew you to them? how did you perceive them at the times you felt most connected with them? as beings that exist, or more as mythical constructs? something else? did you ever feel that you genuinely had a two-way means ( Read more... )

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( This will be a rather long, personal, rambling review of Twelve Steps on Buddha's Path, by L:aura S. If you want to learn about Alcoholics Anonymous or Mahayana Buddhism, or how the complimented each other in the journey of one woman you had better go directly to the book. But you can Read more... )

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HERE BEGINNETH THE THREE AND SEVENTIETH CHAPTER

How that after the likeness of Moses, of Bezaleel, and of Aaron meddling them about the Ark of the Testament, we profit on three manners in this grace of contemplation, for this grace is figured in that Ark.
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HERE BEGINNETH THE TWO AND SEVENTIETH CHAPTER

That a worker in this work should not deem nor think of another worker as he feeleth in himself.

Do not waste your time with ... comparisons. (William Johnston edition}

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HERE BEGINNETH THE ONE AND SEVENTIETH CHAPTER

That some may not come to feel the perfection of this work but in time of ravishing, and some may have it when they will, in the common state of man’s soul.
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