Spiritual Insight from the Namaste Book Your Forgotten Self

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair told in Parade of a time when he kneeled with the head teacher at his school to pray for his father who had suffered a stroke. Blair pointed out that his father didn't believe in God.

"That doesn't matter," the teacher replied. "God believes in him. He loves him without demanding or needing love in return."

Spiritual Insight from the Namaste Book Your Forgotten Self

The story of Les Miserable reveals what happens when people make the Ten Commandments their standard, which happens when we are unaware of the divine nature within ourselves.

Picking up from the last blog, the police could not believe what they were hearing and neither could Jean Valjean when the bishop didn’t follow the commandment but showed love instead. 

Despite all the good intentions in the world, fear can make us prisoners of inaction.

If we are afraid to put everything on the line, to go for broke, we will find ourselves intimidated by difficult circumstances. We will be rendered impotent by a pervasive sense of our situation’s hopelessness. We will become bogged down either in indecision or in safe decisions. 

Step with me into a world of story, a mythological picture from the ancient world, that invites us to shed fear in favor of faith.