An October Quote to start the month.
Question Number One: What does a Spiritual America look like, and is there a difference between "spiritual" and "religious?"
Question Number Two: Was Walt Whitman America's First Buddhist? Or just a spiritual revolutionary?
"Intense and loving comradeship, the personal attachment of [hu]man to [hu]man--which, hard to define, underlies the lessons and ideals of the profound saviors of every land and age, and which seems to promise, when thoroughly develop'd, cultivated and recognised in manners and literature, the most substantial hope and safety of the future of these States, will then be fully express'd. It is to the development, identification, and general prevalence of that fervid comradeship...that I look for the counterbalance and offset of our materialistic and vulgar American democracy, and the spiritualization thereof. Source blog.beliefnet.com/
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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