Can we keep our balance in a turbulent world?

When life gives you white water, get a surf board.

Turbulent times are best navigated with balance.

Exert too much or too little and you lose your balance.

Rome wasn't built in a day. There are a lot of ways to skin a cat.

In spite of what you have been taught, Life is not mechanical, it is organic.

Retreat from the extremes and find the center. It is in the center that balance is found.

If you would find peace, harmony, bliss, it will be in the Ground of Being not in the ten thousand things.

Unitarian Universalists know about the center because they covenant together to affirm and promote the interdependent web of all existence of which they just a tiny part.

Unitarian Univeralists covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of all persons, and in this awareness they find refuge.

Unitarian Univeralists covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion and with this principle they evolve to the heavens where Oneness abides beyond the ten thousand things.

Ask Alexa - What is "the dawning?"

Alexa: How do people develop an interior spiritual life?

First they have to realize that they have a choice to either walk on the path of the ego or the path of the spirit. This awareness of a choice is called, "The Dawning."

My Kind Of Church Music - Can't Find My Way Home, Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton

UU A Way Of Life ministries index - Suicide rates by method and by state

Number of states with an Increase in rate of suicide over 30%  since 1999 = 25
Percentage of suicides accomplished by a firearm = 48.5%
Percentage of suicides accomplished by hanging/stangulation, suffocation = 26.9%
Percentage of suicides accomplished by poisoning = 10.4%
States with the highest suicide rate in 2016 = Montana, Alaska, Wyoming
States with the lowest suicide rate in 2016 = New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts

How is it that Unitarian Univeralists are a people of deep faith?

The wise person understands the Unitarian Univeralist covenant and practices it diligently.
The average person likes the fellowship of UU and attends now and again.
The foolish person has learned about the Unitarian Univeralist covenant and laughs.

Without laughter, the UU covenant would not be what it is.
More than anything, Unitarian Univeralists do not take themselves seriously but instead respect and encourage the free and responsible search for Truth and meaning.

Having encouraged the search, UUs don't know where they are headed.
Having encouraged the search, UUs often times feel lost.
Having encouraged the search, UUs never celebrate the arrival.
Having encouraged the search, UUs never expect to achieve.
Having encouraged the search, UUs teach the importance of the journey and are skeptical about the destination.
Having encouraged the search, UUs are people of deep and abiding faith but have no answers.
Having encourged the search, UUs rest in their respect for the interdependent web of all existence which is beyond understanding.

UU A Way Of Life ministries index - Suicide rate in the U.S. in 2016

• Number of suicide deaths in the U.S. in 2016 = 45,000
• Number of people killed by homicide in U.S. in 2015 = 17,000
• Rank of sucide as a leading cause of death of people in whole population in U.S. = 10
• Rank of sucide as a leading cause of death of people 10 - 34 = 2
• Rank of suicide as leading cause of death of people 35 - 54 = 4

Ask Alexa: How does a person achieve bliss in his/her life?

Alexa - How does a person achieve bliss in his/her life?

There are many ways and in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, bliss is achieved by covenanting with others to affirm and promote seven principles two of which are most imporant for the achievement of bliss: affirming and promoting the inherent worth and dignity of every person and a respect for the interdependent web of all existence.