Our Monthly Spiritual Themes guide our Chalice Circles, which are small, intentional groups of members and friends that gather for spiritual enrichment through personal sharing. For more information on Chalice Circles, please email Linda Benson at chalicecircles@uuprinceton.org. Our Chalice Circle thoughts and questions around the theme of Connections this month are:

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.” ⎯ Brené Brown

Can you remember a time when revealing something about yourself, a peek behind your curtain, gave you the gift of a deeper connection?

 

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ⎯ Herman Melville

When have you felt that events in your life are partly the result of your actions, either good or bad, that influenced or otherwise impacted others?

 

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” ⎯ Martin Luther King Jr.

How do we imperil ourselves when we forget or willfully ignore the oneness of all that exists?

 

“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” ⎯ Albert Schweitzer

Inside ourselves we long to love, universally and unconditionally, and be loved by others the same way. Are we prevented from experiencing this by succumbing to the great delusion of separateness?