Helpful hints for living by your own lights
Often it is hard to describe our religion, especially when you are starting out.
This video goes into the depths of who we are and what we are about. Mostly we are about finding our own way together. Spirituality is personal, but fellowship and changing the world require others.
Namaste,
Cricket
Mindfulness is both simple and tricky. This is a easy guide.
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Cricket
” When parents lose a child, there are rituals to mark their grief — holding funerals, sitting shiva, bringing casseroles. But when that loss happens before birth, it often isn’t marked. Sometimes, it’s barely even mentioned. It’s different in Japan, which has a traditional Buddhist ceremony that some Americans are adopting as their own.”
This article describes a Buddhist ceremony giving closure and relief to the grieving.
~Namaste
Cricket
We all want to be heard. For some of us it is more important than others. This TED talk from Julian Treasure will help.
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Cricket
Being an ally is more than being a friend. Being an ally means standing up. Being an ally means a lot of things to a lot of people.
In this article from the UUA, presenter Tim Wise talks about how to be an ally and the road map to racial equality.
This article from Everyday Feminism, Jamie Utt describes things that an ally can do along with the idea that being an ally isn’t a self-proclaimed identity.
#standingonthesideoflove #blacklivesmatter
~Namaste
Cricket
Mindfulness is a simple word, but it can mean so much. There can be many definitions but this sums it up.
Mindfulness can also be described this way.
Mindfulness is the practice of living in the here and now without judgment. I believe that it is the key to living in today’s world. I believe that it is the key to being a good ally and a good person.
Here is a guided mindfulness
meditation .
Hopefully this will bring you peace and hope as well.
~Namaste
Cricket
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/870528
“Our faith, of course, does have requirements. To become a Unitarian Universalist, you make no doctrinal promises, but you are required to do much more. You are required to choose your own beliefs — you promise, that is, to use your reason and your experience and the dictates of your conscience to decide upon your own theology, and then you are asked to actually live by that theology. You are asked to take your chosen faith very seriously. ”
~Namaste
Cricket
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So often in this day and age, we are fighting with our own demons of doubt, self-loathing, insecurity, and depression. This meditation is a small step to helping us overcome these inner demons and create a refuge in our soul.
~Namaste
Cricket
By Sara Campbell
Ah, how beautiful is this day. How crisp and clean the air. How clear the sky. How full of life the teeming earth. And we are alive! Yes, we feel the beat of our own hearts, the pulsing of life in our veins, the rhythm of our breathing. We come into the silence of this time with gratitude for this day.
We come also with our needs. Our gratitude stirs us to praise and sing our thanksgiving. Our loneliness draws us into the company of others. Our restlessness draws us into these moments of quiet. Our longing for the spirit brings us before the mystery of the holy. Our desire to heal our own wounds and the wounds of our world brings us here to renew our strength and hope.
And we come into this space because we have gifts to share: words of healing and encouragement for those who are burdened; songs of praise and hope; smiles of comfort and affection; deeds of love and kindness.
Each of us comes to dip into the well that nourishes our hungry spirits. Each of us comes with our own cup of goodness to pour into the well. We drink together. May we be strengthened in our bonds of love and peace.
Source: 1997 UUMA Worship Materials Collection
~Namaste
Cricket
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