I am currently reading some of Paul Ferrini’s books and came across this quote, that needs no further comment:
“To make wrong is to teach guilt and perpetuaute the belief that punishment is necessary. To make right is to teach love and demonstrate forgiveness. To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or [...]
Buddha outlined 8 clear and simple steps for self-actualisation – yet Buddhism became so heavily ritualised, that in some books on the subject, those 8 steps aren’t ever referred to!
Mohammed built a simple religion based on acknowledging God and 5 prayers a day, but Islamic Law is highly codified and requires years of study.
Moses was [...]
At Transpersonal Dynamics, we emphasise the need to look at both material and spiritual dimensions of a person’s being. This is entirely consistent with, for example, the work of Maslow.
In his well-known hierarchy of needs, he described level 5 – self-actualization, as the final level of psychological development, achieved when all basic and mental needs [...]
g) Spirit is Simple
“Go back to basics… human intelligence takes the simple and makes it complicated… if it’s complicated it’s from Ego, Spirit is simple.” This quote from Diana Cooper says it all; we have a tendency to over complicate things, either tying ourselves in knots worrying about something, or dressing up an issue in [...]
