“Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be . . . someday. Show me you can risk being completely at peace, truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment, and again in the next and the next and the next . . .” ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Welcome to Spirit First...a holy, gentle, quiet place, a place for contemplation and acceptance, a place for peace and love. Our work here is to explore our meditations, deepen our mindfulness, strengthen our principles and practices, and become more of our authentic selves. May we, as we put Spirit First, open up more deeply to the silence within and discover the truth of who we are.
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"Raise us above the distinctions and differences that divide us..." ~ Sufi Hazrat Inayat Kahn
We have to earn silence, then, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion.
~ Pico Iyer, "The Eloquent Sounds of Silence"
~ Pico Iyer, "The Eloquent Sounds of Silence"
Spirit First
Spirit First is an inclusive home and retreat for those who seek meditation and contemplation regardless of chosen discipline or faith. If you are Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, or Christian...if you are Sufi, Native American, Taoist, something else or nothing else, you are welcome to this place of quiet and study. At Spirit First we practice going within, and we support each other in our efforts to do so.
Followers
Spiritual practice is the teacher.
It's all spiritual practice.
~ ehj2
It's all spiritual practice.
~ ehj2
Peace is all around us.
It is not a matter of faith;
It is a matter of practice.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It is not a matter of faith;
It is a matter of practice.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Our Mission
Spirit First promotes the practice of meditation and the development of spiritual awareness and mindfulness. We seek to serve by providing education, tools, and networking that support those on a spiritual path. Spirit First encourages holistic attitudes, healthful living, gentleness with the earth, and compassion with the world.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. ~ Krishnamurti
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life,
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
only in dark the light,
only in dying life,
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
The purpose of words is to create silence. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shanker
Never doubt in the darkness what God has shown us in the light.
