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farewell to a great man and sending love and healing to a wonderful woman

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Sending much love to Cindy and her family today as they gather together in Tommy’s honor. The work Cindy and Tommy have brought to our world, together and individually, is truly lifesaving and transforming.

Thomas Walter Goldberg Newman (1955-2017)

Dearest Cindy, 

May the light of love carry you through today. 

May your mind be at peace as your heart copes with Tommy’s journey back to the Divine. 

May you be surrounded by friends and family when you need it. 

May you have solitude and silence when you need those too. 

May your faith in that which you call Holy be a source of strength and of healing. 

May you be blessed.

Love,

~ Marie and Orion

May all those who see this blessing send ever more love in addition to ours.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-journalonline/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-walter-goldberg-newman&pid=186270706&fhid=14888

What if our religion was each other and love were the center of our being?

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What If?

What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life?
If prayer was our words?
What if the Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy water—the rivers, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships?
If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge?
If love was the center of our being

©1998 Ganga White, Santa Barbara All Rights Reserved
– Written at the Rainforest Benefit, NYC April 1998

a Recipe for Happiness

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My dear friend Judy Foster of Women’s Wisdom Master Mind posted this today:

A Recipe for Happiness
Be silent and calm every night for at least half an hour, preferably much longer, before you retire, and again in the morning before starting the day’s activity. This will produce an undaunted, unbreakable inner habit of happiness that will make you able to meet all the trying situations of the everyday battle of life. With that unchangeable happiness within, go about seeking to fulfill the demands of your daily needs. Seek happiness more and more in your mind, and less and less in the desire to acquire things. Be so happy in your mind that nothing that comes can possibly make you unhappy. Then you can get along without things that you have been accustomed to. Be happy because you know that you have acquired the power not to be negative, and because you know, too, that you can acquire at will whatever you need, and that you will never again become so material-minded that you will forget your inner happiness, even though you should become a millionaire.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
www.yogananda-srf.org

Goddess trips to Rockland UU

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If you missed seeing these at Twinkle’s Place, these films are worth the trip to First Universalist of Rockland!!

THE GODDESS REMEMBERED: Film Series Monday, July 31, 6:00 to 8:00 pm The Goddess Remembered, the first of Canadian film maker Donna Read’s three acclaimed films on Women and Spirituality will be shown in the Sanctuary on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 pm. The hour-long film examines goddess-based pre-historic societies. Following the film there will be a pot-luck meal and discussion downstairs in the Griffith Room. All are welcome!

The second film in Read’s trilogy, The Burning Times, which addresses the witch hunts of the Middle Ages, will be shown on Wednesday, August 23.

Full Circle, which addresses the continuing popularity of contemporary women’s spirituality movements, will be shown on Wednesday, September 27.

Each hour-long film will begin at 6:00 pm and be followed by a pot-luck meal and discussion downstairs

View First Universalist of Rockland‘s Newsletter HERE

If you would like to see them at Twinkle’s Place, email TwinkleManning@gmail.com