The energy of light embodies us but also is us. We are more light than matter, more love than fear, more power than weakness, more success than failure. As we close our eyes, we find ourselves connecting beyond body, time and space to our light of eternity and grace. LISTEN HERE SUPPORT the Prayer Music…
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WITH EACH KIND WORD, YOU’RE PLANTING A SEED THAT WILL GROW: February 6, 2018
“Try to abandon expectations about how you should feel while doing loving-kindness meditation. If you feel discouraged by the lack of good feelings in metta meditation, bring kindness to yourself because you’re feeling discouraged: ‘May I be safe, happy, healthy, and live with ease.’ Shift your attention away from what you want and onto how…
THE TIMELESS PRESENT RELEASES ME IN EACH BREATH: January 25, 2018
WEEK 4 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “The idea in scanning your body is to actually feel and inhabit each region you focus on and linger in it in the timeless present as best you can. You breathe in to and out from each region a few times and then let go of it in…
EVERY EXPERIENCE WE HAVE IS SPECIAL: January 24, 2018
WEEK 4 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “[I]n the spirit of non-doing, we are not trying to achieve anything at all, nor attain any “special state” of being. We are simply attending to our experience of the body moment by moment as we bring awareness to . . . . In awareness, every moment and…
I EMBODY THE AWARENESS OF THIS MOMENT: January 23, 2018
WEEK 4 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “[B]efore we convince ourselves that our bodies are too this or too that, shouldn’t we get more in touch with how wonderful it is to have a body in the first place, no matter what it looks or feels like? The way to do this is to tune…
I WAS ONCE WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE: January 22, 2018
WEEK 4 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “It is amazing to me that we can be simultaneously completely preoccupied with the appearance of our own body and at the same time completely out of touch with it as well . . . . When we put energy into actually experiencing our body and we refuse…
I CARRY NOTHING INTO THIS MOMENT: December 29, 2017
“Seeing the purpose of our actions and whether they are of benefit or not— rests on our understanding the ethical dimensions of mindfulness. This is the discernment of wholesome or unwholesome mind states and actions, which lead respectively to happiness or suffering.” Joseph Goldstein, from Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening CLICK HERE TO LISTEN…
I MOVE BEYOND THE BOX OF RESTRICTIONS AND LIBERATE MYSELF IN THE PURE AWARENESS OF BEING: December 28, 2017
“When awareness is well established and mindfulness is happening by itself— what we could call effortless effort — then we can simply rest in the continuity of bare knowing. Ryokan, a nineteenth-century Zen master, poet, and wandering monk, expressed it this way: ‘Know your mind just as it is.’” Joseph Goldstein, from Mindfulness: A Practical Guide…
I FEEL THE PRESENCE OF INFINITE GOOD: December 26, 2017
“Don’t think about your problems during your practice. Push them aside very gently. Take a break from all that worrying and planning. Let your meditation be a complete vacation. Trust yourself, trust your own ability to deal with these issues later, using the energy and freshness of mind that you built up during your meditation….
ONLY WHEN WE FIND PEACE WITHIN CAN WE PROVIDE IT TO OTHERS: December 23, 2017
“We retire to that secret place within ourselves, . . . until the feeling of peace envelops us; and when we find our peace, those who have come to us for help also receive their peace.” Joel Goldsmith, from The Christmas Letters I sit in the breath of new awareness. In this awareness, the truth…
A NEW WORLD IS BORN WITHIN OUR SOULS EACH MOMENT: December 21, 2017
“What we are developing through study and meditation, [the world] will be born into. The old world will be wiped out and disappear, and a new world will be born.” Joel Goldsmith, from The Christmas Letters There is no judgment simply an awareness that I AM. The breath of all that is flows from the…
WE ATTAIN THE GROOVE OF THE SOUL, REALIZING IT IS MEASURED BY LOVE: December 20, 2017
“In meditation, in quiet contemplation of the Soul, we achieve or attain this groove or rhythm in consciousness and then, and only then, do we know the government and realm of Spirit. No longer are our values based on material estimates but, instead, are measured by . . . love.” Joel Goldsmith, from The Christmas…
