If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. Meister Eckhart Over the years we have developed a New Year's Eve tradition here in Studio City. We invite meditators to come for a gratitude celebration and group meditation to welcome in the new year. We begin around 10:00...
The Vedic seers say, "Have your attention on what is and see its fullness in every moment. The presence of God is everywhere. You have only to consciously embrace it with your attention." Deepak Chopra, Creating Affluence Everything in the universe is structured out of energy and information. Including you and me. The energy...
God resides in the heart of every person at every moment. He is always ready to take care of you. Develop your spiritual powers. This is true knowledge. And to apply oneself to His service is true devotion. Guru Deva, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati The spark of the divine is in each one of us. Sri M This is all we need...
The Supreme Being is the link between all beings, worlds, and galaxies – like a thread holding the beads together in a rosary. Sri M In order for me to encounter the Divine, I must be in relationship to something. Another being, another world, another galaxy. The sidewalk beneath my feet or...
Once the ananda, the divine delight in all things is attained, it sets right all the distortions, all the evil of the world. It carries man through to the goal. If by the truth and right of things we arrive at the ananda, by the ananda also we can arrive at the...
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Mahatma Gandhi Christmas has come and gone. Some of us have spent too much money, or eaten too much, or drunk too much. Some of us maybe have been...
According to the mystical tradition, Christ is born into the world through each of us. As we open our hearts, he is born into the world. As we choose to forgive, he is born into the world. As we rise to the occasion, he is born into the...
(One more from my time in India with Sri M and the participants on his Walk of Hope.) No one wants violence. If there is violence somewhere, know that religion has been corrupted...
n ancient Hindu prayer begins with the words, "Lead me, O Lord, from darkness into light, from mortality to immortality." From the darkness of our ignorance, we need to awaken to the existence of the Presence of the Divine in our soul. When the conscious phenomenal self or ego...
The change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing. A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed into a maniac or a savage beast...