Friday, May 25, 2012

READ: Gitmo or Gandhi by Ed and Deb Shapiro

Are you ready to honor yourself and others? Is it not time to end the war within? For only then can we end the violence in the world.

READ: Compassion The Dalai Lama Way by Ed and Deb Shapiro

Shortly after we were married we went to India and spent our honeymoon in ashrams and monasteries, and then in McCleod Ganj, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile in northern India along with other Tibetan refugees who have escaped Chinese rule in Tibet. Once there we went to the Office of Securities to request [...]

READ: If You’re Not Here Then Where Are You? by Ed and Deb Shapiro

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.  John Lennon Who said life would be like walking the yellow brick road, or that the human condition would be easy? And why is it so important to be here? What’s the big deal? It appears that the reason we’re not happy is [...]

READ: What Does Karma Yoga Mean? by Ed and Deb Shapiro

Serving enables us to release any sense of separation. It takes us out of selfishness and neediness, and we discover that in giving we do not have any less.

READ: Why is Love so Painful? by Pragito Dove

Love is painful because it creates the way for joy, for ecstasy, for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms you. Love is growth.

Love itself does not hurt. It is growth that hurts, the ego that stings.

Each transformation is painful because the old situation is being left behind for the new. Hence, fear arises.

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