Contemplative Action

  • Is there a relationship between religious devotional teachings, focused on the internal spiritual life of individual human beings, and the social teachings of religious traditions?
  • Does personal religious practice affect an individual’s state of mind, which then affects the society that individual is helping to create?
  • Does the society we live in affect an individual’s state of mind, which then returns to affect the society we live in?
  • If so, how might religious practice affect this interaction?