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The Guesthouse

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments

The Guest House
by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark […]

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Tags: Meditation · Mental Health · Spirituality

Seane Corn and “Body Prayer”

June 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Seane Corn Demonstrates “Body Prayer” from Speaking of Faith on Vimeo.

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Tags: Meditation · Spirituality · Yoga

Peace - A poem

June 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Peace
by Dorothy Hunt
Do you think peace requires an end to war
Or tigers eating only vegetables?
Does peace require an absence from your boss, your spouse, yourself?

Do you think peace will come some other place than here?
Some other time than now?
In some other heart than yours?

Peace is this moment without judgement. That is all.
This moment in the […]

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Tags: For your consideration · Meditation · Spirituality

Practicing Lovingkindness Meditation

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments


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Why I meditate?

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

People ask me all the time, ‘Tom, why do you meditate?”. My usual response is ‘Sit quietly and breath for five minutes, without distraction, and you will know why’. There is a sense of calm, peace, reconnection, awareness and insight that emerges. It is a remembering of what’s important. A clarity about […]

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