Date: Sunday, July 9, 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
This event is In Person
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This Universal Worship gathering will focus on our spiritual discernment Transforming the Body, Heart and Mind with a concentration upon
“Relaxing the Body.”
“The highest relaxation is to relax the whole being: body in repose, mind at rest, heart at peace. It is that experience which may be called Nirvana, the ideal of thinkers and meditative souls. It is that which they want to reach, for in it there is everything. In that condition each person becomes for the time as a drop that is assimilated or submerged in its origin. And being submerged for one moment means that all that belongs to the origin is attracted by this drop, because the origin is the essence of all. The drop has taken from its origin everything it has in life. It is newly charged and has become illuminated again.” ~Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Universal Worship celebrates the essential unity of all religions. We light lamps and offer prayers to honor all traditions and invoke the messengers of God, known and unknown, who have appeared in all times and all places to serve and enlighten humanity. We allow this one message to enter our lives and change our being.
A beautiful deepening experience within the Universal Worship includes readings from the world’s diverse religious and spiritual traditions. See scripture selections for each month: for JULY go HERE. We read specific prayers during the Universal Worship ritual and invite all to read along. You may download a copy of the prayers here.
Our 2023 Spiritual Discernment:
Transforming the Body, Heart, and Mind
JANUARY: Purifying the Body
FEBRUARY: Cleansing the Heart
MARCH: Observing the Mind
APRIL: Refining the Body
MAY: Educating the Heart
JUNE: Clarifying the Mind
JULY: Relaxing the Body
AUGUST: Surrendering the Heart
SEPTEMBER: Dissolving the Mind
OCTOBER: Finding Balance in the Body
NOVEMBER: Harmonizing the Heart
DECEMBER: Recreating the Mind
Our yearly Spiritual Discernment is reflected in our activities, within our services each Sunday, and within the diverse groups that meet in circle throughout our community.
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Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage.
Thank you for your help!
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Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
