READ: What Does Karma Yoga Mean? by Ed and Deb Shapiro
April 4, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Ego, Love, Meditation, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga
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
March 29, 2012 by Pragito Dove
Filed under •-Headline, Health & Well-being, Meditation, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spirituality
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.
READ: How Hot Is Your Anger? by Ed and Deb Shapiro
March 28, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Insights, Meditation, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Reflection, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality
By naming the many faces of anger we can stay present with it as it arises, keeping the heart open, breathing, watching emotions come up and pass through.
READ: 6 Reasons Why Meditation Appears So Difficult by Ed and Deb Shapiro
March 20, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Meditation, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality
We were teaching a meditation program in North Wales, in the UK, in a quiet backwater near the hills. It was a peaceful day, everyone was happily seated, and we had just rung the gong to begin the morning session when a motorbike started revving right outside the window. It was a loud and annoying [...]
READ: Vernal Equinox – The Day of Light ritual by Tony Samara
March 20, 2012 by Tony Samara
Filed under •-Feature, Earth, Meditation, Meditation, Mindfulness, Nature, Spiritual Guidance, Spiritual teachers, Spirituality
The first day of the ancient calendars falls on the March equinox, the first day of spring, the day of light. At the time of the equinox, the sun is observed to be directly over the equator, and the north and south poles of the Earth lie along the solar terminator; sunlight is evenly divided [...]
