Spirituality

7 lucky gods of Japan

God sleeps in stone, breathes in plants, dreams in animals and awakens in man.

— Hindu proverb

Book recommendations

And, thank you Howard Pepper — for your book, Figuring Out Your Faith, and your recommendation of Professor Ehrman’s latest book, Forged — I have downloaded both and look forward to reading them.

I also have plans to re-read Tom Harpur‘s The Pagan Christ, Lama Surya Das‘ Awakening the Buddha Within, and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche. I have my work cut out for me, don’t I?

But this is the start of a journey, a quest of sorts, to unravel the mystery of the Hindu proverb above, to understand spirituality in the many ways we have found to express it over millennia.

Of spirituality’s need, I am absolutely certain. Perhaps ‘need’ is the wrong word. It is part of our nature. Yet, how that spirituality is expressed is, well…