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"When your heart
becomes as quiet as your whispered question, you
will hear the still small voice of God," the old Rabbi
said.
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| Meditate with Books |
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Spiritual reading is a "practice" because it is
counter-intuitive to our familiar form of reading.
It is a
form of
meditation and reflection that calms a thumping heart
to a gentle and silent beat.
Do not forget to pray, my boy. If your prayers are truly
sincere, every day a new fervor will appear, a new
thought of which you were unaware before, and that
will give you new strength. You will understand then
that prayer is education.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov
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| Q & A with Author Amy-Jill Levine |
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The words religion and spirituality get mixed
up and matched up a lot these days. As a member of
an Orthodox Synagogue and a biblical scholar, how
do you define these two words?
"Spirituality" today tends to be defined as personal if
not anti-institutional; conversely, "religion" is
associated with a set of practices and beliefs held by
a community. The two need not be mutually
exclusive.
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of this interview
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Recommended Summer Reading |
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There is something eternal about a really good book.
Religious or secular, fiction or non, special books can
carry us beyond ourselves and offer a glimpse of
another way, another reality. Great writing hands us a
shovel and helps us unearth possibilities where
before we saw only wasteland, or perhaps didn't
bother to look at all.
Read more
 A
Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
We all know or have known people like Ignatius, and
there are pieces of him reflected in everyone of us.
Ignatius teaches us that our failure to fit in all of the
time is actually a grace, and we should let it remind
us that we do not belong to this world, but to another
world far greater.
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of this review
 The
Spiral Staircase
by Karen Armstrong
Leaving the religious life in those days was not like
changing your job or moving house. Our novitiate
had not simply provided us with new professional
skills and left our deepest selves untouched. It was a
conditioning. For about three years we were wholly
isolated from the outside world, and also from the rest
of the community.
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more of this excerpt
Books that Will Change Your Life
Ancient and Modern "Must-Reads" selected by
editorial board members Michael Battle, Phyllis
Tickle, Frederick Borsch, and Jon Sweeney.
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