Bible Verses And Quotes: Divine Justice We have collected and put the best Bible Verses And Quotes about Divine Justice. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. The Bible talks a lot about God‘s justice and how the righteous...
Bible Verses And Quotes: Inspiration We have collected and put the best Bible Verses And Quotes about Inspiration. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. We all could use a few uplifting words in these trying times. This category...
Bible Verses and Quotes: Key Passages We have collected and put the best Bible Verses And Quotes about Key Passages. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. This category serves as a reference for some of the Bible‘s most...
Keys To Christian Living We have collected and put the best quotes for Keys To Christian Living. Enjoy reading these insights and feel free to share this page on your social media to inspire others. See also: Jesus Quotes Jesus Christ Quotes Christianity Quotes Bible Verses and Quotes: Christian Advice...
Religious Views On The Self Religious views on the self vary widely. The self is a complex and core subject in many forms of spirituality. In Western psychology, the concept of self comes from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Carl Rogers where the self is the inner critic. Some Eastern philosophies reject the self as...
Nondualism In spirituality, nondualism, also called non-duality, means “not two” or “one undivided without a second”. Nondualism primarily refers to a mature state of consciousness, in which the dichotomy of I-other is “transcended”, and awareness is described as “centerless” and “without dichotomies”. Although this state of consciousness may seem to appear spontaneous,...
What Spiritual Naturalism? Spiritual naturalism, or naturalistic spirituality combines mundane and spiritual ways of looking at the world. Spiritual naturalism may have first been proposed by Joris-Karl Huysmans in 1895 in his book En Route – “In ‘En Route’ Huysmans started upon the creation of what he called ‘Spiritual Naturalism,’ that is, realism applied to...
What Is Perennial Philosophy? The Perennial philosophy, also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a perspective in spirituality that views all of the world’s religious traditions as sharing a single, metaphysical truth or origin from which all esoteric and exoteric knowledge and doctrine has grown. Perennialism has its roots in the...
Who Is Plato? Plato (Plátōn, 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in...
Understanding Feelings Feelings tell us much about how we are currently relating to the world and other people. By learning from our feelings we can know ourselves better and can govern our emotions with sensitivity and understanding. Feelings and emotions are very important in the interactions between the mind of...
Higher Consciousness Higher consciousness is the consciousness of a higher Self, transcendental reality, or God. It is “the part of the human being that is capable of transcending animal instincts”. The concept was significantly developed in German Idealism, and is a central notion in contemporary popular spirituality. However, it has ancient roots, dating...
Asceticism In Judaism This article covers asceticism in Judaism. Asceticism is a term derived from the Greek verb ἀσκέω, meaning “to practise strenuously,” “to exercise.” Athletes were therefore said to go through ascetic training, and to be ascetics. Rigorous abstention from any form of self-indulgence which is based on the belief that renunciation of the...
“Patience Is The Key To Happiness” The Great Messenger said, “Patience is the key to happiness,” have become like proverbs. That is to say, Almighty God’s grace and favor is with the patient. As required by His Name of the All Wise, the Almighty God placed in all things an...
Happiness Does Not Always Lie In Being Rich Happiness does not always lie in being rich. ‘Happiness’ is the subject of debate on usage and meaning, and on possible differences in understanding by culture. Happiness is used in the context of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment...
Spiritual Direction Spiritual direction is the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine, or to learn and grow in their own personal spirituality. The person seeking direction shares stories of his or her encounters of the divine, or how he or she is cultivating a...
Soulmate A soulmate is a person with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity. This may involve similarity, love, romance, platonic relationships, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, compatibility and trust. See also: Spiritual Relationship Historical usages of the concept Plato In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes...
The All-Beautiful Names Of God Since the time of the Last Messenger, upon him be peace and blessings, the All-Beautiful Names of God, exalted is His Majesty, have been a right-guiding source for knowing and recognizing the Divine Being in accordance with His Attributes of Majesty and Grace, and for...
God’s Attributes Of Glory Like His Essence, God’s Attributes of Glory are eternal, having neither a beginning nor an end. According to the religious methodology or the basic principles of religion, God’s Attributes consist of certain transcending and blessed concepts—whose transcendence and blessedness come from the Being Whom they describe;...
Putting An End To A Long Journey “Putting An End To A Long Journey” is the last article of Journeying on Sufi Path in Emerald Hills of the Heart book series. Human beings have an exceptional place among creation; they are travelers whose journey of life passes through the Realm of...
Ta‘ayyunat (Identifications) And What Lies Before This article explains the meaning of Ta‘ayyunat (Identifications) and What Lies Before in Sufism. Literally meaning coming forward, emerging and being made specific, in Sufi terminology ta‘ayyun means that the different natures or different essential characteristics inherent in the Divine Being manifest themselves with...