Spirituality Proclaiming High on Twitter - Dalai Lama and Rick Warren Among Top 20 Twitter Celebs

Jan 5
08:16

2011

Ashish K Arora

Ashish K Arora

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Shinning bright on social media pages like Twitter and bestowing glory to people who believe in humanity, goodness, peace and God are praised for their informative tweets and wonderful teachings through Twitter daily messages.

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The Mega church pastor and global evangelist Rick Warren and the Buddhist leader Dalai Lama are the only religious figures who are counted in the Forbes' list of the top 20 'most influential Twitter celebrities.'

The top 20 list is flourishing with people from the entertainment industry and the most influential on micro blogging site are Lady Gaga,Spirituality Proclaiming High on Twitter - Dalai Lama and Rick Warren Among Top 20 Twitter Celebs Articles Joe Jonas, Kanye West and Conan O'Brien. The happening and very young 16 year old sensational singer Justin Bieber is topping the charts with more than 6.3 million followers.

Rick Warren, an American evangelical Christian minister, author and founder of Saddleback Church, California joined Twitter last year and since then he has earned more than 200,000 followers. Rick was not convinced with the idea of Twitter when it came into existence in 2007 and he stated ""The idea of telling people the minutia of my life seemed so narcissistic." But later well known evangelist shared with him the worthiness of Twitter. Since then Rick Warren uses Twitter for teaching purposes and he tells "it is one of the mentoring tools I use with my network of young church leaders". He regularly tweets about his love for Jesus Christ and also about his passion for food.

Rick Warren, the bestselling author of many Christian books holds the opinion that networking tools like Twitter and Facebook are too important to be ignored and comments "For 30 years we've always tried to use every means available to help as many as possible, and share the transforming message of the Gospel".

On the contrary stands a revered exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism - Dalai Lama, he tweets about spiritual wisdom and might be the ranking of Forbes is still undiscovered by the religious guru. Some of his recent enlivening tweets are "Within all beings there is a seed of perfection; but compassion is required to activate that seed inherent in our hearts and minds." And "Achieving genuine happiness may require bringing about a transformation in your outlook and way of thinking".

Truly, the tweets are so nourishing and we can create this world a better place to live in by learning through such wondrous words of wisdom from some very influential spiritual leaders.

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