Friends, an Invitation

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

to join me for My Presentation for the Modern Mystics School on RABBI ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL Hosted by: Spiritual Wanderlust WHEN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. PT** Mystic, prophet, scholar, poet, sage, social critic, and holy Read more [...]

To Be or Not to Be—in Awe

Posted on August 21, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, "Ah," you are participating in divinity. ~ Joseph Campbell "The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense. And it is the natural religious sense." ~ D. H. Lawrence A moment Read more [...]

Facing a Hint of the Holy

Posted on August 17, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

According to French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, in the access to the human face there is also an access to the idea of God: “To my mind,” he writes, “the Infinite comes in the signifyingness of the face. The face signifies the Infinite. BROTHER Read more [...]

To Be Moved or Not to Be Moved

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious person's attitude toward history and nature. ~ Abraham Heschel My original passion for the writings (not to mention the life) of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on whose works I wrote Read more [...]

Join the Revolution — Be a Pebble

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Out of the mouth of babes. ~ some wise toddler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWQoZbgGh9o Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ~ Rev. Sydney Smith What I want to bring out is how a pebble Read more [...]

The Vital Question — A Life-Line

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Life is: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be? The tendency to forget Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 5. Joy

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? CLICK on any of the five below. 1. LOVE 2. WONDER 3. GRATEFULNESS 4. COMPASSION 5. JOY There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy. ~ Paul Rudnick Your Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 3. Gratefulness

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? For all that has been—Thanks! To all that shall be—Yes! ~ Dag Hammarskjold “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 2. Wonder

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? I think us here to wonder, myself. . . The more I wonder. . . the more I love. ~ Shug in The Color Purple, Alice Walker There are only two ways to live . . . one Read more [...]

The Most Essential is Never Expressed ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What characterizes humans is not only our ability to develop words and symbols, but also our being compelled to draw a distinction between the utterable and the unutterable, to be stunned by that which is but cannot be put Read more [...]

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