Torah-Veda

An Interspiritual Journey
Find Your Inspiration and Follow It

WELCOME TO TORAH-VEDA

Torah and Veda are two ancient sources of spirituality still vibrant today. Torah is conveyed through the sacred language of Hebrew and Veda is conveyed through the sacred language of Sanskrit. The focus here is on meditation, mysticism, philosophy, psychology and the underlying spirituality that has been incorporated into religions, and not as much on the religions themselves. Your comments and posts are welcome.


Quote of the Week 419 - Listend/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance

Quote of the Week 419 - Listening/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance


Every one who is thirsty, come and drink. He who has no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. Let your soul delight in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, that your soul will live…


--Isaiah 55:1-3, The Living Torah translation by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

CURRENT TEACHING SESSIONS




Interfaith/Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Groups


Please check out the following, which is an ongoing activity that may be of interest:


https://www.zgatl.org/contemplative-group.html


https://www.zgatl.org/ongoing-groups.html


http://www.interfaithci.org/contemplative.html


https://faithallianceofmetroatlanta.org/recent-events/programs-events/ongoing-programs/











Thursday, July 28, 2011

Quote of the Week 187 - Looking Good vs. Doing Good


Personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, that’s more than a barren life, it is a trivial one. It’s looking good instead of doing good.

--Toni Morrison, Rutgers University Commencement Address, 2011

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Quote of the Week 186 - Jeremiah, Destroyer and Builder


See, today I have set you over nations and kingdoms, to root up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

--Jeremiah 1:10, translated by Aryeh Kaplan in The Living Torah

Friday, July 15, 2011

Quote of the Week 185 - Being Fully Present


In whatever you do, try to be present, fully present. As Satchel Paige put it, “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” You gotta be all in. This means leaving your technology behind occasionally and listening to a friend without half of your brain preoccupied by its inner longing for the red light on the Blackberry.

--Samantha Power Commencement Address at Occidental College, 2011

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Quote of the Week 184 - Myself

While regarding my body as myself, I am thy servant; while regarding my individual soul as myself, I am an atom, scintillation, ray, reflection of Thine; but when regarding my interior Self as myself, I am the very Thou.

Shankara