I will never give money to a beggar.” Sound familiar? Those are words I have lived by for years. I will buy food, medication, pay for a…
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FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE: Effective forgiveness strategies by Master Charles Cannon
Forgiveness. It’s one of the toughest things to do. I wonder how many of us DON’T have someone in our lives that we haven’t been able to forgive? Of course, at…
LIVING MAGIC LIVES: Allow the universe to move perfect into place
Be willing to allow. That’s all the universe needs us to do for it to deliver something magical. It constantly looks at our attitude, our way of being, our contentedness…
LIFE IS CHANGE: Learn to let go of fear and accept change
Imagine that you have your hands full of chocolate cookies and your mother comes along with a cherry pie, hot from the oven with crumbles on top (feel free to…
ABIDING HAPPINESS: Embracing the reality of life with acceptance
Why don’t my children listen to me? Why can’t politicians tell the truth? Why did it have to rain on my wedding day? Reality baffles us. We question it every day…
CHRIST FOR BEGINNERS: Becoming aware of the God in all things
Born into a reformed Jewish family and growing up in a suburb of St. Louis in the 1950s, my first memory connected with Christ was my dawning awareness, in…
EXCITED MIND: Using meditation to calm overly stimulated senses
The mind is not just the brain, but the sum of the physical, mental, and spiritual. We have six senses in total: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, and thought…
MOVING INTO STILLNESS: The Core of Goodness
As you sit quietly and immerse yourself in the peace and stillness of your own centered being, you will gradually begin to experience yourself in an undistorted…
MIND CLEANSING SCHOOL: Finding fulfillment in life as a janitor
Life gives us an interesting plate. As an undergraduate I majored in business administration and minored in philosophy. A religious experience in my …
BLESS YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE: A prescription for personal and planetary healing
Some thirty-five years ago on a warm summer evening I was present as a very wise man lectured on the theme “Bless Your Circumstance.”…
EQUANIMITY: A higher state of happiness
What is happiness? To one person it means owning eight cars. To another it means being in a great relationship. To a third it’s…
SELF-IMMOLATION #8: Tibet’s nonviolent freedom movement grows desperate
Norbu Damdul, a 19 year-old former monk from Tibet, set himself ablaze yesterday in bold defiance of worsening Chinese oppression. Damdul was heard shouting “Tibet, the Land of Snow, should be independent. His Holiness the Dalai Lama should be allowed to return to Tibet,” before getting doused with water and brutally beaten by Chinese police then hauled away to an unknown location.
KARMA YOGA: Wearing away the ego, one toilet at a time
‘d always struggled with the concept of work in my life. In the quest to find fulfilling work, I’d never stayed in a job for long. I was trapped by the need to satisfy my muse—my passion to help the world—while still making enough money to survive. Working for non-profits or the government didn’t seem [...]
CONTEMPLATION: The Path to Awakening
How often are we truly alone with ourselves for any prolonged period of time? How often do we enter into a space of stilled silence? How often do we find sufficient time in order to think and…
Prickly feelings in spirituality and holistic medicine
Many of us experience that prickly feeling with the body hair standing on end and theBhagavad Gita : Krishna and Arjuna skin looking like “goose bumps” time and again. It is usually associated…
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