Bow to your brother’s and sister’s
Bow to the homeless
Bow to the sick and mentally ill
Bow to animals and the planet
Bow to your enemies
Bow to the entire cosmos
Bow to your last breathe
And God will bow to you
And fill you with his spirit of love and peace
If we want to be close to God
We must only strive for perfect humility
“With an empty mind and open heart, let yourself be naked before grace.
Let your mind rest in this dark awareness of God in all of this naked existence.
It is not who you are or what you’ve been that God sees with merciful eyes, but what you want to be.
Contemplative prayer, when done right, is the respectful love and ripe fruit.
It’s the cloud of unknowing, the hidden love-longing offered by a pure spirit.
It takes you into silence, far from thoughts and words.”
These quotes are from “The Cloud of Unknowing” which is a book of anonymous European monks from the medieval times. Full video on YouTube.
Enjoy 🙏🏻
As I walk with the homeless
I see the divinity within them
What the world sees as unclean and unworthy
I see through the lens of compassion, mercy, and unconditional love
They are my brothers and sisters
They are worthy of love
Narrow is this path my lord
Stay near me as I walk into the darkness of this world
For you are the light of the world
May I drink with you at your well
The everlasting source of love within my own heart
May I eat with you
For you are the bread of life
O’ Christ
My soul only strives to be with you
And rest within your love
Jesus’s one commandment to his disciples was to love your neighbor
What is your neighbor?
Your neighbor is the poor, sick, and homeless
Your neighbor is the immigrant
Your neighbor is the LGBTQ community
Your neighbor is the pig, chicken, cow, and sheep
Your neighbor is the rainforest and it’s many wildlife
Your neighbor is the Earth
Love them with all your heart and soul
Don’t let fear, hatred or greed keep you from expanding your circle of love and compassion
“I am in my father
You are in me
And I am in you”
-Jesus
When the holy spirit touches our heart deeply through contemplation and inner silence we can become one with God’s love. You may call this Theosis or Nirvana but in direct experience it is pure mercy and love. An emptying of all notions or concepts of fear, hatred, greed, and suffering. Nothing compares to becoming one with God’s love. 🙏🏻
God’s love liberates our inner parts that are enslaved to greed, hatred and fear.
Each day we must return to the infinite source of life and love within our own heart and soul.
A sanctuary of healing within us that is available each moment.
Be still and know.
Many look for the Kingdom of God in Church
Many look for the Kingdom of God in the afterlife
Many look for the Kingdom of God in rituals
Those who look outside of themselves only dream
Those who look within their own heart and soul awaken to God’s love right here and now
A Kingdom where love reigns supreme over fear
The light transforming the darkness within and around us
A everlasting spring of love
A sanctuary of healing
Be still and know
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Let them push you, but do not push;
Let them crucify you, but do not crucify.
Let them insult, but do not insult.
Let them slander, but do not slander.
Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.
SAINT ISAAC THE SYRIAN
To me Buddhism is studying how Jesus became Jesus and how we can become like him too through the holy spirit, similar to enlightenment or nirvana in Buddhism. It’s core belief is that we all can awaken and become a Buddha; actually we already are a Buddha but are lost in our attachments to worldly things and are consumed by our fear, greed, and hatred (sin in Christianity).
Buddha just means awakened one, similar to the title Christ in Christianity. We should not be scared of other spiritual traditions but our own fear, hatred and religious dogma that can blind us from seeing the truth and goodness in all religions. Be curious and open minded. This type of mindset is what Jesus and Buddha had in their times. This is not to assimilate or convert but to build brotherhood and sisterhood.
I found Jesus through a Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh who wrote a book called “Living Buddha, Living Christ” that changed my life 10 years ago.
He dedicated a lot of his life trying to bridge the two religions and fostering brotherhood and sisterhood.
The Narrow Path 