I received a video link the other day to a remarkable man speaking on the “5 Niyamas” … Here are some of my thoughts on what he had to share. The yogi’s first Niyama related to “Purity” (Saucha), and focuses on “cleaning up our body, cleaning up our speech & cleaning up our mind” in […]
Richard Brady wrote me the following the other day: “In my recent reflections I’ve shared something of my suffering with you. I’m grateful for the replies of concern I’ve received. One in particular, from a friend in Holland, had a profound effect on me. She had lived with tension in her body since childhood and […]
Even though it feels like it sometimes, our Hearts actually NEVER hurt. Rather, it is our own self-centered ego that leads us to pine and yearn and suffer. The Heart only knows Love and the Joy that comes to all those who choose to heed its Call … Every moment I “slip up” and worry […]
I recently received a disturbing email (paraphrased below) that warned us all about the government infiltrating our private lives based upon the searches we make on Internet search-engines. And yet what bothered me about the mail was not our government’s intervention into our private lives, but rather our growing obsession with fear; our growing desire […]
True pacifism is anything but passive. As with any other Right Action, it’s not what you do, but how you do it that matters … People have been aggressively protesting for thousands of years and effectuated no lasting change. Have militant feminists really softened the stance of even one hard-line misogynist? Empirically not. Yes, laws […]
As far as money and “survival” are concerned, I have chosen to work out this challenge by never accepting any money for myself — ever. I simply go about offering to DO Good for others, and then refuse any payment for my services. People are so shocked by this (and so innately Good-Hearted) that I […]
Some very “normal” humans have made extraordinary choices throughout history. These men and women are the ones all societies seem to admire. And every one of them was denigrated to a certain degree by their friends and families — And yet every one of them found Peace by sacrificing their own self-centered “happiness” to find […]
I was recently asked about the fears I might be experiencing, living as a Peace Pilgrim … Basically, there are the fears that others think I “must be having” and there are the fears I actually have. It is important to understand that the former, while inaccurate for me, are self-reflectively accurate for those doing […]
It is important first and foremost to remember that hatred is nothing less than crystallized fear; that the hateful are simply extremely frightened beings who are lashing out blindly at their perceived enemies. Secondly, it is useful to remember that condemning or punishin gor rejecting or even criticizing such beings only serves to entrench the […]
As far as Love being a “State of Being” and not a choice, I think we are speaking about two different things entirely here. I agree whole-heartedly that we ARE Love — that Love is what makes us up and that it is Love that unifies us all; and that we remain this Love — […]
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” ~ Albert Einstein There is much Truth in this statement, and it’s relation to modern-day politics is a clear one. And yet, even though […]
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