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The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture XX – From William James

A Study In Human Nature

“Summing up in the broadest possible way the characteristics of the religious life, as we have found them, it includes the following beliefs:

  1. That the visible world is part of a more spiritual universe from which it draws its chief significance;
  2. That union or harmonious relation with that higher universe is our true end;
  3. That prayer or inner communion with the spirit thereof- be that spirit ‘God’ or ‘law’- is a process wherein work is really done, and spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

Religion includes also the following psychological characteristics:

  1. A new zest which adds itself like a gift to life, and takes the form either of lyrical enchantment or of appeal to earnestness and heroism.
  2. An assurance of safety and a temper of peace, and, in relation to others, a preponderance of loving affections.”

 

PDF of entire book: https://worldu.edu/library/william_james_var.pdf

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What Actually Happens to Your Donated Clothing? – Joseph Mercola

The True Cost of Disposable Fashion

Alternatives to Donation Bins:

You may also want to reconsider where you haul your discarded clothes off to.

If you have good-quality, gently-used clothing, consider donating them to places such as:

Dress for Success and Career Gear (professional attire for the disadvantaged)

Cinderella Project and Fairy godmothers Inc. (prom dresses for those who cannot afford one)

Your local church charity that may distribute them to the needy within your community

Local women’s shelters and crisis centers (call first to find out what kind of donations they accept)

The Big Brother/Big Sister Foundation

Brides Across America (provides free second-hand wedding gowns to military brides)

Read entire article here: What Actually Happens to Your Donated Clothing?

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ABRETE CORAZON – Claudia Stern – YouTube – *****

Open your heart
Open feeling
Open understanding
Set aside the reason
And let the sun shine, hidden in your interior

Open old memory
Hidden in the dirt
In plants, under fire, under water
Open your heart
Open feeling
Open understanding
Set aside the reason
And let the sun shine, hidden in your interior

It’s time already, it’s now
Open your heart
And remember how the spirit heals
As love heals
As the tree blossoms and life endures
That to get to God
We must learn to be human

Ábrete corazón
Ábrete sentimiento
Ábrete entendimiento
Deja a un lado la razón
Y deja brillar el sol, escondido en tu interior

Ábrete memoria antigua
Escondida en la tierra
En las plantas, bajo el fuego, bajo el agua
Ábrete corazón
Ábrete sentimiento
Ábrete entendimiento
Deja a un lado la razón
Y deja brillar el sol, escondido en tu interior

Es tiempo ya, ya es ahora
Ábrete corazón
Y recuerda como el espíritu cura
Como el amor sana
Como el árbol florece y la vida perdura
Que para llegar a Dios
Hay que aprender a ser humano

Claudia Stern’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/clausternb

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