Simple Mind Zen

Pray to be known, to be understood and to be welcome -- Anthony Gittens Throughout the many religious traditions the world has known, t...

"Blessed are you, Lord our G-d Sovereign of the Universe who has kept us in life, sustained us and who has enabled us to reach this s...

"The joy of Purim demonstrates Israel’s eternal holiness." --unknown Rabbi For Jews world-wide the upcoming festival of Purim ...

"I would know you in order to know myself." The word person has great significance. "Today our way of thinking about peo...

"Surely God is good to his Israel." Jim Elliot In 1945 with the world war now behind, the nation turned herself to other matt...

"The gods attend to great matters; they neglect small ones..." --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.E.-43 B.C.E.), ancient Roman ...

" The etrog is the original fruit in the garden of Eden."  Why Hebrew Goes Right to Left --by Ronald Isaacs In his interesting a...

"Awe is what moves us forward."  --Joseph Campbell The soul, wrote Martin Buber in Tales of the Hasidim, is like the Day of Ato...

"Humankind are creatures in which spirit and material meet together and are unified in a single whole."-- Ratzinger The word so...

  " Unchained from Judaism, the parent of Christianity, one easily comes to the idea that God doesn't care what you do, or what you...

Melchizedek-- Heb. meaning, "the god Zedek is king." The Hebrew name Melchizedek appears in many current documents as if somet...

In recognition of the recent conclusion of the Jewish New Year 5771 observances, Rosh Ha-Shanah , and the High Holy days occurring annually ...

"Thus...Rome established or supported friendly kings... thereby governing through subsevient agents in lands where Rome itself did not...

"Resting in God is a term I like." --Thich Nhat Hanh   Buddhist monk and teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, writes in his book, Living ...

Christian, spiritual leader to more than a billion of the world's population, Pope John Paul II led the Catholic Church into new, moder...

"The gods attend to great matters; they neglect small ones..." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.E.-43 B.C.E.), ancient Roman Statesm...

The simple mind is away from the computer. this article was posted here previously, March 9, 2009. "I sought the one I love" --T...

"For He knows how we are formed, remembers that we are dust. Our days are like the grass; like flowers of the field, we blossom. The wi...