A Journey To Full Self-Expression

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

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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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On a bone-chilling night in late January, a capacity crowd of roughly 400 people packed the main auditorium at First Unitarian Society on Madison’s west side.
The man everyone came to see was selected by Time magazine in 2006 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. He’s in regular contact with the Dalai […]

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Trying to heal your depression with spiritual practice alone can make the condition chronic and prone to relapse, says a new study. Physicians and long-term meditators Roger Walsh, Robin Bitner, Bruce Victor, and Lorena Hillman explain why both antidepressants and meditation have an important role to play in treating depression.
When we first set foot […]

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From Dr. Daniel Amen, e-newletter.
As I travel the country promoting brain health (and I’ve been traveling a lot recently!) I am often asked for practical suggestions about how we can care for our brains. The truth is, you are not stuck with the brain you have. I have seen my own brain function […]

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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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May 27, 2008
Lotus Therapy

By BENEDICT CAREY

The patient sat with his eyes closed, submerged in the rhythm of his own breathing, and after a while noticed that he was thinking about his troubled relationship with his father.
“I was able to be there, present for the pain,” he said, when the meditation […]

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$3.81. The average gas price in Rhode Island today. Filling up is costing record amounts. People making decisions regarding driving and eating. The wheels on the gas pump turning so quickly due to the high cost of gas, it’s like a whirlwind.
Reactivity abounds. The cost! The memories of 89 cents/gallon seeming like only […]

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