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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 | |