Quote of the Week 210 - Where is God? Where is Not God?

Oh my God, where shall I find You, Your place is hidden and beyond our comprehension.

And yet Oh my God, where shall I not find you, the whole world is full of the Presence of your Glory.

--Yehuda Halevi

Quote of the Week 209 - The Dreamers are the Saviors

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of the solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.

         Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the afterworld, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.

--from As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen

Upcoming Workshop - Basic Spiritual Principles and the Mechanics of Creation in Genesis

Spiritual Workshop. Basic Spiritual Principles and The Mechanics of Creation in Genesis.

Dates and Time: Four 90 minute sessions on Wednesday evenings: February 22, 29 and March 14 and 21; 7 PM to 8:30 PM. (Please note no session on March 7 due to Purim activities).

Location: Temple Sinai, 5645 Dupree Drive, Atlanta, GA 30327. Please call or email to pre-register: Judy Thomas, 404-252-3073 x 330; jthomas@templesinaiatlanta.org.

Cost: $60.00 for the series of four sessions, which class fee includes a copy of the book Basic Spiritual Principles ($20.00 retail)

Description:

This workshop will have as its focus the text of my latest book, Basic Spiritual Principles. The idea of this book and workshop, as encompassed in the title, is to present in simple and straightforward terms some basic principles related to spirituality and spiritual processes and revelations without getting too complex, involved or abstruse. It provides a framework to help address life’s essential existential questions: Why am I here? Where did I come from? How did I get here? How did ‘here’ get here? Where am I going? What is the purpose of my life? What is life and this thing we call existence? What is it all about? Please note that it doesn’t claim to answer these questions, it only claims to provide a framework, a perspective, an orientation that may be helpful in addressing these questions. The “answers” are a matter for individual self-discovery.

In addition, we will examine an analysis of the opening sentences of Genesis within this framework. Perhaps Genesis is not just a description of the workings of the external universe, but also of the internal universe that exists within each of us. Genesis like you’ve never seen it before!

Included in the class fee is a copy of my new book, Basic Spiritual Principles.

Quote of the Week 208 - Knowing Nothingness and Everythingness

Knowing…is achieved…through that deepest of all forms of meditation in which one enters the interior silence of total emptiness and Nothingness…so that afterwards one can return and understand…the totality of Everythingness.

--Bill Heilbronn

Quote of the Week 207 - What is Man in Nature?

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

--Blaise Pascal