Tag: spirit

• The True Peace

  What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. The True Peace.  The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within…

  David L. Smith

  March 13, 2023

  consciousness, Cosmos, Earth, God, Nature, Spiritual

  Black Elk, breath, buffalo, center, feather, flash, grass, life, men, nation, night, oneness, Sioux, soul, spirit, sunset, universe, winter

• The Function of Beauty

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  David L. Smith

  March 10, 2023

  Art, Belief, consciousness, God, Nature, Spiritual, Values

  absolute, artist, contemplation, contemplative, epiphany, flower, form, formless, monk, mystic, personality, purple, spirit, Trappist, void, Zen

• The Truth of Ourselves

  Where it resides Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, ‘Well, you have three strikes against you: You’re black, you’re blind and you’re poor,’ But God said to me, ‘I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage…

  David L. Smith

  February 20, 2023

  Art, Belief, consciousness, Love, Perception, Transformation

  black, blind, confidence, creation, creativity, God, hope, inner strength, inspiration, light, music, oneness, positivity, radiance, spirit, Steve Wonder, strike, unity, wealth, within, world

• We are One Human Family

  I feel the time is ripe to engage with the ethical side of the genetic revolution in a manner that transcends the doctrinal standpoints of individual religions. We must rise to the ethical challenges as members of one human family, not as Buddhist, as Jews, a Christian, the Hindu, Muslim. Nor is it adequate to…

  David L. Smith

  January 2, 2023

  consciousness, Goodwill, Humanity, Values

  Buddhist, Christian, ethics, ethnic, freedom, global, Hindu, interconnectedness, Jews, Muslim, oneness, politics, religion, revolution, Science, species, spirit