Actions of Faith

What would you do today if you were certain that God was taking care of you?
 
You would certainly smile. Is it possible to smile even through adversity? It almost seems sacrilege to smile when life seems to not smile. Which is a true reflection? Do you have to smile first before life smiles back at you and how long do you need to smile before contentment and ease arrive? Perhaps life is always smiling and the view of its smile is only seen through certain perspectives. If so, what might those perspectives be? What perspective shift do you need  to allow the smile of life? Read more

The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita

written by staff

An Introduction to India’s Universal Science of God-Realization — New Book By Paramahansa Yogananda

“We came from God and our ultimate destiny is to return to Him. The end and the means to the end is yoga, the timeless science of God-union.” Read more

Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

written by deepak chopra

When ancient peoples considered the vastness of the universe, they felt something very surprising, they felt connected, a spiritual connection cannot be seen or touched, yet we have a way to verify invisible things by using a faculty more powerful and reliable than the five senses’ consciousness. Read more

The Bridge of Choice

written by jared rosen and david rippe

Imagine yourself standing on a bridge between two worlds. On one side of the bridge is an upside-down world. Why is it upside-down? It is upside-down because people have lost their intimate connection to the whole, and feel isolated and separate from society. Even their thoughts are fragmented. Read more

Self-love

written by ria ray

I am a woman, a mother, a healer and a business consultant. In my many roles, I have found that the key to most difficulties in becoming more aware and experiencing bliss lives in something very basic: Self-love.  Yet self-love is often very difficult for us to practice throughout our lives.

self-love is the key to meaningful living, the only way into spirit; self-love generates and breathes life into spirit. Read more

Islands of Silence

written by john sovec

harnessing the power of stillness
Car horns blaring; airplanes roaring overhead; radios and televisions constantly chattering and snarling; this chaotic cacophony is the soundtrack to the urban landscape we inhabit. It seems impossible to escape the relentless barrage of external stimuli that hum like static just below our perception, demanding our attention whether we are conscious of it or not. Read more

Finding Bliss through Ending Your Karma

written by kyle roderick

What is karma and how can you possibly end it? The new book, “The End of Karma: 40 Days to Perfect Peace, Tranquility and Joy,” interweaves inspiration information from Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. (www.drdharma.com) with ancient poetry by an Indian yogi named Nanak who called his writing Japji Sahib, or “respected meditation of the soul.” Read more

Ring of Rhythm

written by debra bokur

Throughout the ages, indigenous cultures from all corners of the world have embraced the throbbing, heartbeat call of drums. From Polynesia and the African continent to the native peoples of North and South America, the pulsing music of rhythmic drumming has brought people together, helped unify inhabitants into cohesive populations, and defined the borders of communities.
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Cultivating Your Bliss

written by lorin roche, ph.d.

cultivating your bliss: how to avoid making yourself miserable in meditation
When you are meditating and your brain is thinking of your next appointments and choreographing the day and night, what is going on?

Your brain and body are synchronizing the dance of it all, feeling the pulse of time, the beat of your heart and the beat of the day. If you allow this you will notice that there is a bliss of being in synch with the rhythm of your day. Read more

Armageddon or Enlightenment

One can’t watch television, pick up a newspaper or surf a web site without being barraged by fear-based stories of doom and gloom. Our politicians treat us to scary images of mushroom clouds and a host of horrible weapons in “the wrong hands” as rationale to preemptively invade sovereign countries. Their sights are now seemingly set on two other points in the Axis of Evil: Iran and North Korea. Color-coded terror alerts are suspiciously raised in direct relation to falling poll numbers. We are told to buy plastic sheeting and duct tape for our windows, stick canned goods under our beds. Dire threats of an avian flu pandemic scream at us from TVs and radios. Read more

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