At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.

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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls

We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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