Spirituality & Alternative Healing
Articles, Prose, Poems, Prayers, Quotes, & Lyrics
The Articles, Prose, Poems, Prayers, Quotes, & Lyrics section includes thought-provoking, helpful articles on alternative healing, meditation, and spirituality. You'll also find inspirational and motivational prose, poems, prayers, quotes, and music/song lyrics that I've found especially inspiring and meaningful.
Authors include Marianne Williamson, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paramahansa Yogananda, Barbara Williams, Helice Bridges, Rudyard Kipling, Max Ehrmann, St. Francis of Assisi, Robert Frost, the 14th Dalai Lama, Christopher Reeve, Gerald Jampolsky, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Ronald K. Pendleton, Ph.D., Patrick Overton, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), and others.
A wide range of musical genres are found in the inspiring, meaningful song lyrics here - lyrics written or performed by Carole King, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Jim Croce, Lee Ann Womack, Foreigner, Johnny Cash, John Denver, R.Kelley, Monica, Jewel, and others.
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Table of Contents
Alternative Healing Articles
- The Universal Healing Keys
by Sharri Lorraine
Meditation Articles
- Wuji Qigong
by Claude Fournier, M.D.
Spirituality Articles
- Activation: A Process of Spiritual Awakening
by Ronald L. Mann, Ph.D. - An Integrated Body-Mind-Spirit Experience . . . or the Zen of Mountain Climbing
by Tricia Chandler - Orbits of Consciousness
By Shakira Kahn, Transcription by Sharri Lorraine - Personal Goals from the Inside Out
by Ronald L. Mann, Ph.D.
Prose, Poems, Prayers - Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual, Religious
Listed alphabetically by title:
A-H
- The Call: Discovering Why You Are Here
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer - Columbine High School - A Small Tribute and Remembrance
by Shirley E. Kaiser, M.A. - The Dance: Moving to the Rhythms of Your True Self
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer - Death is Nothing at All
by Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918), Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral
(incorrectly sometimes known as “What Is Death?”) - Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann - Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep
by Mary Elizabeth Frye - Faith
by Patrick Overton. When you walk to the edge of all the light you have ... (often incorrectly attributed to Barbara J. Winter) - Food for Thought
Author Unknown - Hold On To Your Dream
Author Unknown
I-L
- If
by Rudyard Kipling - I Have Learned
by Kathy Kane Hansen
(incorrectly sometimes known as “Lessons Learned” by Ronald K. Pendleton, Ph.D., Professor of Education California State University, San Bernardino.) - Instructions for Life
Author Unknown - The Invitation
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
(incorrectly sometimes known as “Mountain Dreamer Speaks,” by Oriah, Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder) - Love
I Corinthians 13:1-13 - May You Always Feel Loved
by Sandra Sturtz Hauss
M-S
- May Every Aspect of My Being ...
May every aspect of my being be converted to Truth ...
by Marianne Williamson - More Thoughts To Live By
Author Unknown - Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
by St. Francis of Assisi - Prelude
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer - The Prophets said Life was Beautiful
By Bill McDonald - The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost - Self Portrait
by David Whyte - The Serenity Prayer
by Reinhold Niebuhr - Stepping Stones
by Barbara Williams - The Story of Life
Author Unknown
T-Z
- Take Time ...
Old English Prayer (Author Unknown) - Ten Thoughts To Live By
Author Unknown - Times in Life
(added here in memory of my mom)
by Linda Lee Elrod - Who I Am Makes a Difference
By Helice Bridges, From Chicken Soup for the Soul
(aka Who You Are Makes A Difference - Blue Ribbon Award)
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Quotes, Quotations - Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical
Listed alphabetically by author last name.
A-G
- The 14th Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy ... - Bartholomew
The teacher is within, so you have to ... - Raymond Burr
Try and live your life ... - William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to ... - Mohandas Gandhi
It is easy enough to ...
H-M
- Hermann Hesse
I can give you nothing that has not already ... - Gerald Jampolsky
Nothing is impossible when ... - Lau Tzu
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day... - Nelson Mandela
R-S
- Christopher Reeve
... you'll always be on an adventure of meaning if ... - Sophocles
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life ... - Jonathan Swift
May you live ... - Mother Teresa
The success of love is in the loving ... - Mark Twain
Always do right. This will ...
W-Z
- Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light ... - Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure ...
(sometimes mistakenly attributed to Nelson Mandela.) - Paramahansa Yogananda
Giving love to all, ...
Music Lyrics, Song Lyrics - Inspirational, Spiritual, Meaningful Lyrics
The lyrics I've listed below all have had a strong spiritual meaning for me at some point in my life, which is the context for which I've included them here. They're listed below by song title.
- Angel of Mine
Sung by Monica - Bridge Over Troubled Water
by Paul Simon, as sung by Simon and Garfunkel - Hands
by Jewel - Help Me
by Larry Gatlin, performed by Johnny Cash - Hero
by Mariah Carey - I Believe I Can Fly
by R. Kelly - I Hope You Dance
by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers, sung by Lee Ann Womack - I'll Be Seeing You
Sung by Billie Holiday (The Notebook movie soundtrack) - I'm Your Angel
by R.Kelly, as sung by Celine Dion and R.Kelley - I Want To Know What Love Is
by Mick Jones, Foreigner - It's In Every One Of Us
by D. Pomeranz, sung by John Denver - One Sweet Day
by Mariah Carey (and others). Performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - The Rose
by Bette Midler (Amanda McBroom, lyrics) - Tears in Heaven
by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings, performed by Eric Clapton - Time In A Bottle
Words and Music by Jim Croce - You've Got A Friend
By Carole King, as performed by James Taylor
