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, November 29, 2012

Quote of the Week 246 - Prayers That Don't Work, Prayers That Work


We can’t pray that He make our lives free of problems; this won’t happen, and it is probably just as well. We can’t ask Him to make us and those we love immune to disease, because He can’t do that. We can’t ask Him to weave a magic spell around us so that bad things will only happen to other people, and never to us. People who pray for miracles usually don’t get miracles, any more than children who pray for bicycles, good grades, or boyfriends get them as a result of praying. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayer answered. They discover that they have more strength, more courage than they ever knew themselves to have. Where did they get it? I would like to think that their prayers helped them find that strength. Their prayers helped them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage which were not available to them before.

--from When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Quote of the Week 245 - Falling Into the Cup of Wisdom


It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had fallen into it.

--Soren Kierkegaard

VIDEO ADDED: The One and Only Church of Universal Ice Cream

I am happy to announce that a video of my presentation on Universal Ice Cream is now available. It has been added to the links section at the right sidebar to this blog, and is also available here:
Universal Ice Cream - Vimeo
Universal Ice Cream - YouTube

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Quote of the Week 244 - The Adventure of Life, the Superstition of Security


Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

--Helen Keller

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Quote of the Week 243 - A Definition of Sin


Sin is the refusal of humanity to become who we are.

--Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel