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Prayer and meditation. Together they’re an ancient tree.

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I’ve heard the arguments that prayer and meditation contradict each other, and I don’t buy them. I pray and meditate interchangeably. For me, they dissolve into each other. For meditation naysayers…Meditation is simply stillness and silence for me. Stillness alone with the soul. Silence away from the physical world to listen to my heart. Mother Teresa said, “You can only hear the whisper of the divine in silence.” Meditation allows Spirit to flow through the portal of my heart. For prayer skeptics…Prayer is a yearning for connection and belonging to something larger than us. Connection to truth, to love, to …

Unlocking the Divine: The Power of Self-Love

During my walk I saw this and strode on by, but then something in me wanted to go back. Four simple words, I was thinking, that could invoke a ton of different responses in people. We could cave to our first reaction. We could get caught up in the language of them, the vowels and consonants of them. Why? “God,” of course. We’re obviously not God in the traditional sense of the word. But the word “God” is just that, a word. A pointer, that points to a universal power that is so beyond our comprehension that assigning a gender or vowels and consonants …