The simple practice of cultivating gratitude, an appreciative awareness, and thankfulness, can powerfully transform our everyday experience of life. For some people, this is a natural and easy thing to do. For others, keeping gratitude […]
Dharma and the Dharmic Life Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver ~ How will I live? is a question that has been […]
Meditate and Experience Wholeness All this is full. All that is full. From fullness, fullness comes. When fullness is taken from fullness, Fullness still remains. Om. Peace! Peace! Peace! –Invocation to the Isha Upanishad Through […]
3 Practices for Conscious Living Do not make light of your failings,Saying, “What are they to me?’A jug fills drop by drop. So the fool becomes brimful of folly.Do not belittle your virtues,Saying, “They are […]
Kriya Yoga practice removes all obstacles to Self- and God-realization. —Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra 2.2 When Paramahansa Yogananda came to America in 1920 with the blessings of his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, his mission was to […]
How to Connect Your Spiritual Heart and Your Activist Feet Without Losing Your Balance The heart of yoga is mysticism, the universal experience of conscious communion with God or ultimate Reality. Mystics arise in all […]
Life can be a perpetual search for happiness in its myriad forms—pleasure, security, success, contentment, joy. Ever notice that we look for it and find it, only to lose it again? Or want more from wherever it seemed to come from?