Awake And Ready

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“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” ~ Eckhart Tolle Isn’t it great when affirmation of our feelings just show up? Like this afternoon; right now, I’m relaxing on my bed with my three dogs; obviously with my [...]

“Where There Is Love, There Is No Question”

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“Where there is love, there is no question.”  ~ Yogi Bhajan When I first encountered Yogi Bhajan’s quote, “Where there is love, there is no question,” I was filled with confusion. Sometimes I would doubt my relationship, for example, and ask myself, “Does this mean what I have isn’t love?” After a long while of [...]

Let’s Go! Eleven Days, Eleven Minutes, A Whole Lotta Love!

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“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest…” When I first began teaching at Karma Yoga (almost three years ago), Katherine Austin, owner of the studio, said to me “It will be interesting to see where you are with your teaching a year or two [...]

Absolute Freedom: Get Present to Your Being in 2013

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Get Present to Your Being in 2013 As we celebrate the beginning of this New Year in a new decade, I am reminded that freedom is available to us because of extraordinary courage and work. Although I am very grateful for this country, the freedom that I am discussing in this article has nothing to [...]

Opening The Gateway of Love

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As one of the American pioneers credited for bringing Eastern spirituality to the West, Ram Dass had more than four decades of spiritual training to help guide him when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage in 1997. Nonetheless, in the hours after his devastating stroke, he lay in a gurney staring at the pipes on [...]

Feed Your Goddess With Abundance! Aparigraha: How Practicing Gratitude Increases Our Abundance

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Both gratitude and abundance are states of mind. They are not dependent on the actual outer provisions or circumstances we have at any given moment. It is our belief in abundance or the lack thereof that creates our experience of it. And our ability to be grateful for what is present that brings more goodness [...]

Messages Of Love – Be A Voter Today!

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Voting today has absolutely no connection to this article. On second thought, perhaps it has everything to do with the post you will be reading in a moment. That being said…this is good stuff no matter who you are; republican, democrat, independent,  religious, spiritual, cynic, yogi, meditator – or not!  As long as we are [...]

The Law of Attraction: Spiritual Guru Deepak Chopra Pens An Essay On The Manifestation Of Desire.

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You’ve probably heard about the Law of Attraction. Perhaps you’re skeptical because of its superficial, New Age connotations, expressed through phrases like “the power of positive thinking” and “like begets like.” But though the Law of Attraction has become a common concept in recent years, it’s also a profoundly misunderstood one. The Law of Attraction [...]

The Most Important Skill to Master

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If you’re like me, you are constantly learning new skills – gardening, carpentry, pizza-making, languages, sports, and so on. And I think this is a fun and wonderful thing to do. But what’s the most important skill? That’s debatable. I think compassion is a huge one, as is mindfulness. I’d go with those two any day [...]

Weekly Inspirations From Ramdesh

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“Your friends know your song. And sing when you forget it. Those who love you can not be fooled by mistakes you have committed, or dark images you show to others. They remember your beauty as you feel ugly, your total when you’re broke, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you’re [...]