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A Reading from The 7 Healing Chakras by Brenda Davies

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Truth is unique for each of us, tempered by our experience and growth. The facts are of course important, but the truth of the throat chakra is much more than this.

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What's immigration all about? TO DO THE WORK

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Blog by Chris Bear-Beam

 

An article in the Austin American Statesman by John Latigua makes this point very clear. The headline reads, Illegal immigrants pay in Social Security, won't benefit. Now, most clear-thinking people realize that people emigrating from their home countries don't cross borders, deserts, and ride on top of trains to come to the U.S. for a "Club Med vacation." They come because they can find no work in their home countries; they come to survive and work, and send money back to their families so they can live.

 

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A Reading from Karen Armstrong’s "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life"

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The religious systems have all discovered that it is indeed possible to nourish the shoots of compassion and learn to withstand the me-first mechanisms of the old reptilian brain. Human beings have always been prepared to work hard to enhance a natural ability.

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A Reading from Michael Schut found in Money and Faith: The Search for Enough

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Abundance and scarcity are two markedly different soils, producing very different harvests.

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The Beatitudes—One possible new translation from the Aramaic by Neil Douglas-Klotz

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Tuned to the Source are those who live by breathing Unity; their “I can” is included in God’s.

 

Blessed are those in emotional turmoil; they shall be united inside by love.

 

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1991 Opening Address to the World Council of Churches Assembly in Canberra, NZ by Chung Hyun Kyung

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With humble heart and body, let us listen to the cries of creation and the cries of the Spirit within it:

 

Come. The spirit of Hagar, Egyptian, black slave woman exploited and abandoned…

 

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Quote from John Philip Newell

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It was through a messenger from the East {in a dream} that I heard a deeply personal word.....

 

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