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From Mother Ruth Summer 2013

All things come out of seeming nowhere—and return again to the Unknown, even human beings.  Yet this source is not a vacuum, but the infinite potential in which all is rooted, symbolized in number by zero. It is No Thing, because “things” are finite, and No Place,...

Gross National Happiness

A series of hand-painted signs dot the side of the winding mountain road that runs between the airport and the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu. Instead of commands to cut speed or check mirrors, they offer the traveler a series of life-affirming mantras. “Life is a...

The Dalai Lama on Compassion: Summer 2013

The Dalai Lama devoted the last public appearance of his Portland visit to an hourlong teaching on compassion. Speaking to about 10,000 people at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, he said the traditional Buddhist value is the key to a happy and peaceful life....

Spring Quarterly 2013: Opening Letter

Memories  Just a few days before my beloved brother went through transition in an automobile accident, the two of us had an unbelievable flight in a vintage WWII aircraft. He looked at me and said “Life is about Memories”.  It had never dawned upon me the scope of his...

Spring Quarterly 2013 From Father Paul Sermon 1973

  From Father Paul:                                                     December 1, 1973 This morning I’m going to take our lesson from the fourth chapter of the Book of Activity, and beginning with the first verse: “For let it be known that I, the Master Jesus,...

Spring Quarterly 2013: From Father Paul, Cosmic Consciousness

From Cosmic Consciousness Tape: “It is the soul we seek to emancipate, to clean, to renovate with light, and our own actions.  And then we are free men and we’ll get true answers.  This is why the individual who has delved into the psychic, and I’m not saying there...