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: How Hot Is Your Anger? by Ed and Deb Shapiro
March 28, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
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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: Meditation ~ The Pearl In The Oyster by Ed and Shapiro
March 13, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Ego, Health & Well-being, Insights, Meditation, Meditation, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality
An oyster may not like that irritating grain of sand in its shell but it manages to transform it into a precious pearl. That’s quite a feat. Just like beautiful roses growing out of smelly manure, or a delicate butterfly emerging out of a caterpillar. It’s a process of transformation and, luckily, meditation does exactly [...]
READ: Seeing with New Eyes by Ed and Deb Shapiro
March 6, 2012 by Ed and Deb Shapiro
Filed under •-Feature, Insights, Intuition, Love, Meditation, Mindfulness, Oneness In Action, Personal Growth, Purpose, Reflection, Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality, Vision
A monk asks, ‘Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?’ The master replies, ‘Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.’ Angelus Silesius We lived in Dartmouth, Devon, on the south coast of England, and each day we would take walks along the gorgeous river Dart to the estuary. One day we [...]
