Follow Your Path: How “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” Changed My Life

Do you always follow your path – I mean, really follow your own path? And if not, why not? When I was about 15, my drama teacher introduced me to a book called “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach. Have you read it or even heard of it? My teacher wrote in the front of it “Follow Your Path” and left it at that, but this little book was one of the main catalysts that changed my life. There have been many books that I have read that have had a profound effect on me, but when I look back […]

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Good spiritual movies (part 1): 5 mainstream films with a spiritual message

There are many good spiritual movies out there which are overtly spiritual in nature and which you can claim stem from one religion or another. Films based on the life of great spiritual teachers for example, or specially made documentaries that rarely get a theatrical release are all films that people can clearly label as “spiritual” just because of their subject matter. But a close friend of mine once bought me a children’s book and wrote in the front of it “You can find spiritual truth everywhere, if you look for it” and he was so right. There are so […]

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