My Rule of Life

                                                                                     

​Is there not an heretical imperative implicit in the Gospel and in our absolute amazement in           awakening to the core teaching of Jesus Christ: the Kingdom of Heaven is within you-us!                    Everything in the Universe is the work of this coherence: from particles of possibility
                         to the vast depths of the Grand Canyon, from a solitary human being to
                                      the universal evolutionary hunger for connection...
                            Love everybody and tell the truth. -- Neem Karoli Baba

Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, is an invitation to build, with a radical faith and hope, intentional communities rooted in the Mystic-Abode of the Kingdom, of a "pan-sacramentalism"? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to live lives of prayer, cooperation, compassion, service, justice, simplicity, and nonviolence (a Beatitude life)? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to save Planet Earth by living in such a way that we serve all species and the re-generation of our Home? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to gender / race / and class equality, and the divine equality of the personhood of all human beings? 

Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to the inward journey of contemplative prayer, gratitude of mind, availability and vulnerability of heart, and a harmony of body, mind, and soul? Is it not true that the Gospel, and the Heart of Every Religion, calls us to surrender to the Holy Wisdom of the Feminine, in the Divine Mother Mary, for the conscious cultivation of the Growing Christ: our human and planetary evolution? And finally, is it not true that the Gospel and the Heart of Every Religion, are roadmaps of the Eternal Way into a Living and Greening identification with the Christ Consciousness of the Kingdom of Heaven (within us and within everyone)? 
                                             -- Questions for a Rule of Life
                             
Suggested Workbooks:
Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda 
Son of Man, the Mystical Path to Christ​ by Andrew Harvey
The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo
The Rebirthing of God by John Philip Newell
Living the Eternal Way by Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
Be Love Now​ by Ram Dass
The Return of the Mother​ by Andrew Harvey
The Bhagavad Gita translated by Ecknath Easwaran
The Tao Te Ching translated by Benjamin Hoff
The Mother by Sri Aurobindo
The Hope by Andrew Harvey
Paths to God by Ram Dass

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