By Morgan Beard — 2016
How do you balance a mundane but financially sustainable working life with a desire for spiritual fulfillment? Does choosing one mean sacrificing the other?
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CLEAR ALL
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
In the late 1960s, or early 1970s, Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen’s message of deep and practiced faith, altruism and action was being delivered against a backdrop of poverty, corruption and moral decay.
Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
The world around us is a wreck. When there’s so much conflict around the country and around the corner, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, powerless, and helpless. What can one person do to make a difference? Here’s the good news.
Through director's interviews, archival footage, and original music, we are introduced to Ram Dass as he explores our universal human condition and behaviors in connection to the journey of the soul and the shared unity of all of our lives.
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