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Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of Divine Presence, Who is Love. I hope persons of varied wisdom paths will find inspiration here.
Blessings,
Brian Kenneth Wilcox
MDiv, MFT, PhD
Interspiritual Teacher, Author
You are invited to join Brian at his fellowship group on Facebook. The group is called OneLife Ministries – A Contemplative Interspiritual Fellowship.
SPIRITUAL TEACHING
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
*Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humility is attentive patience.
*Simone Weil
It was New Year's night, and the Rabbi was walking home when he met a shadowy figure. He was stunned to see a man of the city who had recently died! "What are you doing here?" the Rabbi inquired, "you are supposed to be dead."
"Rabbi, you know," said the ghost, "that this is the night when souls reincarnate on earth. I am such a soul." "And why were you sent back again?" "I led a perfectly blameless life here on earth," the dead man told him. "And, yet," remarked the Rabbi, "you were forced to be born here again?"
"Yes," said the other, "when I passed on I thought about everything I had done and I found it so good; I seem to have done everything well. My heart swelled with pride, and just then I died. I was sent back to pay for that."
The figure disappeared, and the Rabbi, pondering, went on to his home. Shortly afterward, a son was born to his wife. The child became Rabbi Wolf, who was a very humble man.
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SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
What do you see as humility? Do you tend to be prideful or humble? Explain. What are traits of a humble person?
© OneLife Ministries. Feb 22, 2010.
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian Kenneth Wilcox, SW Florida. Brian lives a vowed life and with his two dogs, Bandit Ty and St. Francis.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings at briankwilcox@yahoo.com . Also, Brian is on Facebook: search Brian Kenneth Wilcox.
*You can order his book An Ache for Union from major booksellers.
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