Changing Your Relationship with Life Friends, The excerpt this week is from Sounds True’s The Michael Singer Podcast entitled “From Fighting to Harmony – Changing Your Relationship with Life.” Michael Singer is the author of the widely influential New York Times bestseller “The Untethered Soul.” “Life is a very simple matter, which we make very,…
Power of Prayer Friends, The excerpt this week is from ACIM teacher Jennifer Hadley in her 3/03/18 and 12/04/19 Daily Spiritual Espresso blogs. “Why does prayer work? This is the important thing for us to understand. Our Spirit already knows why prayer works…. Our Spirit has no question about it, has no confusion about it….…
Giving Your Heart to Real Change Friends, The excerpt this week is from Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True and edited from Tami Simon’s interview with Sharon Salzberg. Sharon is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, the host of the Metta podcast. For Sharon, the practice of meditation and…
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…