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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Finding What Unites Us | |
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| Introduction The Mystic Heart: Our Common Heritage | |
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| The Interspiritual Age | |
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| The Parliament of the World's Religions | |
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| The Turn to Spirituality | |
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| A Dot on a Blackboard | |
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| A Bridge Across the Religions and Beyond | |
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| What Is Spirituality? | |
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| Spirituality in the Religions | |
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| The Nature of Mysticism and Spirituality | |
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| What Is Interspirituality? | |
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| The Treasure of Community | |
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| Crossing Over: Pioneers of Interspiritual Wisdom | |
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| The Meeting of Christianity and Hinduism | |
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| Dialogue Between Catholicism and the Other Religions | |
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| Buddhism Comes to the West | |
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| Finding Your Place in the Interspiritual Movement | |
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| The Mirror of the Heart: Consciousness As the Root of Identity | |
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| Hinduism: Supreme Identity in the Mahavakyas | |
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| Buddhism: Enlightenment, Shunyata, Nirvana, and the Doctrine of No-Self | |
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| The Greeks: Plato and Aristotle | |
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| The Christian Understanding | |
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| Who We Are Is Where We're Going | |
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| A New Paradigm of Identity: We Are Consciousness | |
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| Quantum Physics Shows Us Reality and Self-Identity | |
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| The Nature of the Divine | |
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| "The Paths Are Many But the Goal Is the Same": Discovering the Way | |
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| The Inner Path: The Way of Contemplation | |
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| The Outer Path: The Way of Action | |
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| The Place of Spiritual Transformation | |
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| The Asramas and Margas: Living the Sacred | |
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| The Integration of Action and Contemplation | |
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| The Goal of the Spiritual Journey | |
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| The Practical Nature of the Mystical Way | |
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| The Mystic Character | |
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| The Problem of the Ego-Driven Life | |
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| The False Self | |
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| Actual Moral Capacity | |
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| Solidarity with All Living Beings | |
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| Deep Nonviolence | |
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| The Mystic or Contemplative Character | |
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| Who Is a Saint? | |
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| Spiritual Practice: The Crux of Inner Change | |
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| Humility | |
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| Spiritual Practice | |
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| Mature Self-Knowledge | |
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| Transformation As the Reality of Inner Change | |
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| Out in the World: The Spirituality of Action | |
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| Simplicity of Life | |
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| Selfless Service and Compassionate Action | |
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| The Prophetic Voice | |
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| The Fruits or Capacities of the Spiritual Journey | |
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| The Fruits of Spirituality Work Together | |
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| The Mysticism of the Natural World | |
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| Natural Mysticism: Reading the Book of Creation | |
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| What Is Natural Mysticism? | |
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| Readers of the Book of Nature | |
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| Natural Contemplation As the Capacity to Read the Books of Creation and Life | |
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| A Spirituality of Creation | |
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| The Mystical Experience of Totality | |
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| The Spirituality of Pilgrimage | |
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| Nutrition and Spirituality | |
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| Yoga and the Martial Arts | |
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| Toward a Holistic Spirituality | |
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| Natural Mediation | |
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| Discourse of the Rose | |
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| Global Mysticism | |
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| The Promised Land of the Spiritual Journey | |
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| An Intermystical Bridge: The Guidelines for Interreligious Understanding | |
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| The Summit of the Spiritual Life | |
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| Mystic Visitations: Personal Experience of the Summit | |
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| Stations of the Mystical Summit | |
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| Dreams: Channels of the Sacred | |
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| Experimental Mysticism | |
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| Reaching the Further Shore of the Spiritual Journey | |
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| Becoming Cosmic in the Center | |
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| Opening the Heart of the World: Toward a Universal Mysticism | |
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| A Universal Communal Spirituality | |
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| Beauty in the Intermystical Journey | |
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| Discovering the Mystic Heart Together | |
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| A Special Message to the Young | |
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| The Church As Matrix of Interfaith Encounter | |
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| A Universal Order of Sannyasa | |
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| Chapter Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Index | |