Forgive Us Our Sins, As We Forgive Others...

From: elderscorner

Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain. Video from Google on Contemplative Neuroscience.

Give Me Something To Believe In - Music by Poison.

What Do We Really Believe?

I hear many people say they believe in helping the homeless, the sick, the destitute. I hear many people say they believe in relieving the suffering of so many people around them. I hear people say, "Somebody ought to do something about things like this." not realizing that they are somebody with the means to act.

What do we really believe in? Where do our hearts really lie? Take a moment to look through the ledger on your checkbook or to look at your latest credit card statement. Where have you been spending the bulk of your time and money? That is what you believe in the most. Does it match well with what you say your inner beliefs really are? Chances are it doesn't.

The problems of the world seem so many and so diverse. We often times wonder what any one of us can do to solve even a few of the worlds problems, let alone the many we see. What can one person do? Perhaps not much. But, a group of people working in community...sharing their resources...pooling together their time, talents, and material resources....providing spiritual support and encouragement...seeing to their own inner growth and the spiritual growth of others...this is where miracles can happen and lives can be changed. Working alone we are limited in what we can do. Working together, in harmony, we can all give the world a little something to believe in!

Blessings,

Ralph

Inner Peace

God and Love.

A short selection of videos about God and Love, starting with
Mother Teresa.



"For I was hungry, and you gave Me bread."


Ram Dass: Profound Truth.



"If you want to become enlightened, serve people."


Gandhi: One World.



"For God to be God He must rule the heart and transform it."

Love Is The Question music video.



"Love is the key."

We tend to over-complicate many things in life, but the basic Truth is simple: Love unconditionally and you will find the one True Life!

A History Of God

Meditation. Laurence Freeman OSB.

Dr Jill Carroll: Religion and Violence

Hope Is A Gift

Christian Meditation Series with Fr. Bede Griffiths

Bede Griffiths

Shantivanam | MySpace Video



Bede Griffiths

Shantivanam | MySpace Video



Bede Griffiths

Shantivanam | MySpace Video

Fr. Bede Griffiths was a man who saw to the heart of all the major world religions. As a young man he began his journey of faith in the Church of England, then became a Catholic Benedictine Monk. From there he was invited to India where he studied Hinduism and Buddhism. He saw to the core of all these points of view and saw the commonalities in all. In the above video series from Shantivanam Fr. Bede does an excellent job of showing the commonalities between the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of Buddha, and how Christians and Buddhists can learn from one another.

Music: I Choose Love 2

The Life of Father Bede Griffiths

Bede Griffiths was a monk, a man in whom there was no guile, and was last to see the guile that may have been in any other. This monk with a universal heart was an icon of integrity and guilelessness. As John Henry Cardinal Newman once described them, Bede was one of those: who live in a way least thought of by others, the way chosen by our Savior, to make headway against all the power and wisdom of the world. It is a difficult and rare virtue, to mean what we say, to love without deceit, to think no evil, to bear no grudge, to be free from selfishness, to be innocent and straightforward... simple-hearted. They take everything in good part which happens to them, and make the best of everyone. (homily, Feast of St. Bartholomew)Such was Father Bede Griffiths, Swami Dayananda, who died May 13, 1993, barefooted and clothed in the color of the sun, in his thatched hut at Shantivanam in South India.

God As Being And Wisdom. Father Abbott Placid

Reflections On Love