spirtuality for the new year

I want to bring in the new year with a shared spirtuality on this forum . I am going to post a webpage and passage from Gandhi on here whom I see a great spirtual leader and how I plan to apply it to my life next year

If you could could each of you post something that has been spirtually fullfilling to you so that we can share it to bring in the new year.

Happy New Year

Mahatma Gandhi's 7 social sins

1) politics without princple
2) wealth without work
3) commerce without morality
4) pleasure without conscience
5) education without character
6) science without humanity
7) worship without sacrifce

every month I plan to take an innventory of these 7 princples and see how well I did in that month in their application and make the neccessary adjustments to be congruent with its message.

homepage for Gandhi
http://www.mkgandhi.org/index.htm

yikes nobody has anything to throw in the pot?

I'll actually have to think what to post. I've read quite a bit, and not all of it can I summarize in a nice format like that...

However, here's one:

Abba Sisoes said, "Let yourself be despised, cast your own will behind your back, and you will be free from care and at peace."

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An Athonite father said: "The one who loves God, loves not only men, his brothers, but loves as well all of nature since it is God's blessing. Someone will rush to get a piece of the clothes or of something else that belonged to a saint, and kiss it devoutly, because he knows he receives from it the saint's blessing. It's the same with nature's trees, grasses, flowers -- everything is God's blessing. We embrace all of it with the same rush of love, especially those fruits that nourish us."

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I'm not too good at those yet .

However, most of my stuff is either a long book or short sayings like those. It's pretty hard to summarize in a nice, bulleted fashion...

Good stuff from Ghandi. I respect each one of those points except #2.

This is the perennial passage I strive to put in my life:

I Timothy 6: 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. NIV

Exodus 4:10-12 JPS translation said:

10 But Moses said to the L-rd, "Please, O L-rd, I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now that You have spoken to Your servant; I am slow of speech and slow of tongue." 11 And the L-rd said to him, "Who gives man speech? Who makes him dumb or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the L-rd? 12 Now go, and I will be with you as you speak and will instruct you what to say."

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This is a quote from the book of Exodus where Moses/Moshe is asking G-d to send another in his place. It makes me feel a little bit better that even such an important figure in the Jewish faith was uncertain of himself and his abilities as everyone can be at times.