Rabbi Michael Lerner is calling for spirituality to become the basis for all political decision-making. I feel he is one of the people whose politics and spiritual values are in sync, and badly needed in this country today. Read on:

Date:   11/10/2006 10:16:52 PM ( 18 y ago)

Part I; Rabbi Michael Lerner calls on environmentalists to develop a spiritual vision: http://grist.org/news/maindish/2006/03/22/roberts/index.html

"we want to challenge the materialism and selfishness in American society and to call for a new bottom line. The old bottom line is that institutions get judged efficient or rational to the extent that they maximize money and power. We say that institutions should be judged efficient, rational, or productive to the extent that they maximize love and caring, kindness and generosity, ethical and ecological sensitivity; enhance our capacity to respond to other human beings as embodiments of the sacred; and enhance our capacity to respond to the natural world with awe and wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur of creation."



Part II; Rabbi Lerner calls for a world based on love, kindness, generosity, ethical and ecological sensitivity, awe, and wonder: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/3/22/111227/048

"What we care about is that when you get down to making a decision, whether it's in the board room or in a school room or in conference committee, that your criteria are ecological sanity, love and kindness, generosity, and awe and wonder at the universe. Enhancing those: That's what a spiritual politics is."



Peace and Blessings!

Liora Leah


This blog comes full circle to one of the first blogs I ever posted on this site: Yeshua(Jesus)and Materialism: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=356&i=2


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