Spirit

A paradoxical power is revealed in people the world despises, in people the world deems weak.

A twenty-first-century theology, based on the concept of one light and many windows.

There is a cricket playing the violin in my bathroom.

Those who want to move the world in the direction of equality and lasting harmony must become, and learn to think of themselves as, forces of history.

My first encounter with Unitarianism.

He has been here ever since.

Like hope, trust, and love, gratitude is both a feeling and a spiritual practice.

People probably thought my parents were hippies because we were out-of-the-closet Unitarian Universalists.

An Iranian-American holds her breath as hundreds of thousands march for democracy in Iran.

Volunteering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—and the aftermath of my diagnosis with ALS—has helped me appreciate the complexity of asking for, and offering, help.

If the ego is about how we are separate, then the spirit is about how we are connected.

The most important thing Samboon taught me was how to speak from my deepest and most grounded place.