Come help me celebrate the launch of my second book:

SPIRITUAL PILGRIM: Awakening Journeys of a Twenty-First Century Transcendentalist

At First Parish in Concord at 7:30 pm on Friday September 28, 2018.

The book is full of quotes from historical and contemporary mystics.  To test your knowledge of how mystics relate to the divine mystery, here is a short quiz:

Mystic Quiz

In my book SPIRITUAL PILGRIM: Awakening Journeys of a Twenty-First Century Transcendentalist I quote many mystics about the nature of divine mystery.  See if you can match each mystic with their words (at least five are Unitarian Universalist mystics):

A: Teresa of Avila;   B: Buddha;   C: Bernard of Clairvaux;   D: Confucius;   E: St. John of the Cross;   F: Meister Eckhart;   G: Ralph Waldo Emerson;   H: Abhi Janamanchi    J: Jesus of Nazareth;   K:Kabir;   L: Lord Krishna;   M: Mirabai of Jodhpur;   N: Moses of Midian;   O:Om Prakash Gilmore;  P: Rabinadrath Tagore;   Q: Henry David Thoreau;   R: Jacob Trapp;   S: Lao Tzu

• Loving yourself as a child of God unites you with God through love______
• God was present in my arms… then I knew my soul, every soul, has always held Him______
• We blossomed in spring. Our bodies are leaves of God_____
• If you want, the Virgin will come walking down the street pregnant with Light and sing______
• Girls, think twice before inviting God near. His charms will turn you into a slave – are you ready for such wonderful bondage? ______
• If I told you the truth about God, you might think I was an idiot ______
• Everything that lives is holy… and it can lift you up to God ______
• Dance wildly, sing joyfully, fill your heart with the beauty of the Beloved as the Beloved turns your soul to Light ______
• Where there is no desire, all things are at peace ______
• I followed my heart’s desire with bliss without overstepping the lines of propriety _____
• Once you know how to return to the present moment, you will be awakened, and in that moment, you will find your true self _____
• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances rhythmic measures ______
• The impermanent has no reality, reality lies in the eternal _____
• May all be happy. May all be healthy.  May all experience what is good.  May no one suffer ______
• Blessed are the selfless and humble for theirs is the kingdom of God _____
• May God bless you and keep you; may his face shine upon you ______
• The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God _____
• I love the wild not less than the good _______

How did you do?  The answer key is on a separate page.