The academic and spiritual teacher, Ram Das, who was a disciple of Maharaji Neem Karoli Baba, said that whenever he had a question that he could not answer, he understood that he was in a state of consciousness that could not provide the answer. He understood that he would have to move to a state […]
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There is only Love and you and I are it. Love is Life is God is Truth is Infinite Intelligence is the Source Field or Quantum Field is the Dao. The name may vary but the reality is the same. Love is the only and ultimate reality. Some of us will spend a lifetime recognizing
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It’s an astounding realization to have – that the thoughts we think are about other thoughts or images or stories that we have collected in our brain and body. When I have the thought, ‘You are a selfish, manipulative beast’, that thought is literally about an image, an idea, a story of someone that
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, the person reputed for making Mindfulness Meditation accessible to conventional Medicine, talks about the certifiable insanity of human beings. It is characterized by our compulsive need to be doing, doing, doing, the flip side of which is our inability or unwillingness to be present to who and what we truly are. Or to
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Situation 1 A friend tries a dress on. She asks your opinion. You say either: A. It looks great on you. I love it. B. I like how it is so flattering. Situation 2 Your child puts his toys away without being told. You say either: A. Oh darling, thank you! That’s so nice. B.
We are conditioned to compete. We want to be superior because we have not learned a better way of handling our insecurities. We want to be intellectually, physically, morally, socially, financially superior. We even want to be spiritually superior. Our insecurities make us feel that we’re not good enough, clever enough, strong enough, attractive enough,
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Sit down or lie down. Get into a comfortable posture. Bring your attention to the rising and falling of your chest without changing its movement. If you feel like releasing a sigh (or two), go ahead. Allow your body to soften and relax by just holding the thought ‘Soft’ or ‘Jelly’ (this seems
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We talk of humbling’ experiences and we’re grateful for them. Someone rises from a state of crushing defeat or trauma as in a competition they’ve trained all their lives for or a childhood of unspeakable abuse or a life-threatening disease. They have lived to tell the story. We listen and mixed in with our admiration
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Meditation is the integrating process of allowing the disparate parts of ourselves to spontaneously regroup and become whole again. Meditation is both a process of healing and the state of being what we truly are Meditation, therefore, is a healing process, whether that healing is experienced as a physical relaxation or as a transcending experience
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