We - a society so obsessed with noise, news clips, action, arguments, debates, anger, confrontation, stimulation and busy-ness - must recreate ourselves and re-carve a place of silence (some might call it prayer) in our lives. It is a great healing measure for the wounded world outside of us, and the wounded world within us. ~ Lyla June Johnston
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Has the "civilized" Western approach to spirituality "domesticated" deep and complex ancient Eastern practices? ~ Peter Kingsley
Turning them into something comfortable and relaxing that can be monetized and compartmentalized from the destructive systems of corporate economics and politics, wealth production, standardized education, colonialism, militarism and ecological destruction?
