Roadside Musings
Spirituality and Other Powers
As something separate from you, a higher power has to be implored to restore you to sanity. When you awaken to the greater power of which you are already a part, sanity happens.
As something separate from you, a higher power has to be implored to restore you to sanity. When you awaken to the greater power of which you are already a part, sanity happens.
“Making things up is an act of improvisation while achieving life purpose is an act of following a script. I prefer making things up.”
You have to train a dog to be vicious. For humans, all it takes is religion, politics, or social media. Dogs are the ultimate Zen practitioners.
What can we learn from the story of the empty tomb?
“Regardless of your religion or lack thereof, what is your motherboard, your non-negotiable, your red line, your identity anchor?”
In the context of heart-centered spirituality, love isn’t a romantic feeling but a state of responsibility calling upon you.
Do you think you won a jackpot by being born? Rabbi Rami takes on spirituality and luck.
“Books are my best friends ...” says Rabbi Rami, discussing the connection between spirituality and books—and why he chooses company carefully.
“People like to say there is only one God. They are wrong. People believe in many Gods, each mirroring the mindset of the believer.”
How are spirituality and Christmas related? “To me Christmas is hopeful: a time to celebrate the potential for God-Realization in all of us.”
Does your spiritual practice take you out of this world or out, into this world?
Hanukkah isn’t about lighting candles, clogging your arteries with fried food, playing dreidel, exchanging presents, or eating cheap chocolate in the shape of faux ancient coins.