All For Love Friends, The excerpt this week is from a chapter in Matt Kahn’s book, All for Love: The Transformative Power of Holding Space. “In this chapter, … you’ll get a sense of the Holding Space process as it relates to supporting those around you by seeing them with a deep sense of reverence…
Quotes of Yogananda Friends, The excerpt this week is from a webpage called “21 Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes to Unveil Your Inner Light” posted on February 4, 2018. Yogananda is a Hindu guru who came to the United States in the 1920’s and established headquarters for Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, CA. His mission was…
RAIN To Transform Suffering Friends, The excerpt this week comes from Buddhist teacher Tara Brach entitled,”Transforming Suffering with RAIN: Remembering Who We Are.” “Greetings, my friends, and welcome to this program on the RAIN meditation: the acronym RAIN stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. It’s a weave of mindfulness and compassion that can radically transform…
Processing Daughter’s Death Friends, The excerpt for the week of April 5, 2022 is from an article in The International Focusing Institute’s March newsletter entitled, “Processing my Daughter’s Death,” by Richard Dawson. “In recent months I have been introduced to the activity of Focusing. This has been a gift for me, for I have been…
Living Purposefully Friends, The excerpt this week is from Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron, from a retreat on Touching Impermanence Lesson Two: The Bardo of Living: Living Purposefully and Dying Fearlessly. “PEMA: One thing I’d like to say at this point is that there are different bardos, and we are always in the bardo…. There’s the…
Does the Ego Ever Disappear Friends, The excerpt this week comes from Craig Hamilton’s article entitled, “Does the Ego Ever Disappear?” “Question: Does the ego ever come into alignment with the evolutionary impulse? And if so, what happens to it? Does it go away or dissolve? Answer: It depends which ego you’re talking about. Ego…
Energy Update for February Friends, The excerpt the week of March 15, 2022 is from Lee Harris’ “Energy Update for February 2022.” “The first major theme for February was Power Shifts. Two different ways we’re going to see this playing out. We’re going to see power shifts playing out on the world stage. So…
What is “Success?” Friends, The excerpt this week is from an interview with Joren Oppelt by Ashley Preston entitled. “How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything.” “Ashley: There are a lot of misconceptions around success. The dictionary describes it as “the correct or desired result of an attempt,” or “the fact of getting…
Our Moment To Shine Friends, The excerpt for the week of Feb. 22, 2022 is extracted from Agape minister Michael Beckwith’s talk entitled “Our Moment to Shine.” “You’ve heard me say that Presence cannot divide itself into parts. It is everywhere fully present, which means every single seeming part contains the fullness of God. This…
One Brother Is All Brothers Friends, The excerpt for the week of March 1, 2022 is from ACIM teacher Jon Mundy’s letter entitled “One Brother Is All Brothers.” “Every mind contains all minds, for every mind is one. Such is the truth.” ACIM W-161.4:1-3. Does Difference Make a Difference? What is the difference between an…