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“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
The personal, the spiritual, the collective. And – Lectio Divina as a practice for connection
Welp. I’m turning 51 next-week. I’ve always really loved my birthday. I don’t care so much about parties or presents or anything like that it’s more that I love the feeling of a day that I get to honor myself in a particularly conscious way. I’m that person who...
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The powerful gift of uncertainty or, the fruits of faith
Three years ago in February, I was sitting in a window seat of an air-conditioned bus careening down the highways of south India, a Bollywood movie playing silently on the inconsistent screen above our driver. As I watched the rolling fields fly by, wincing every time...
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A joy, a sorrow, a delight, a difficulty. The winds and tides of change.
A joy, a sorrow, a delight, a difficulty. These are all coming and going, happening all across the universe. May we find solace and comfort knowing that our experiences will not last forever, and that we are infinitely connected through these experiences. Let us not feel separate for them, but ever more unified, to one another and to the vast mystery of life itself.
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41. Tina O’Connor
41. Tina O'Connor. I can't really separate Tina from her mother, a woman we called Granny, who died at the age of 103 sometime when I was just out of college. I had know Granny my whole life - the O'Connors were our next door neighbors in the house where I was born....
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23. Sandy Kenny
23. Sandy Beckwith Kenny, aka my mom. Now, to say my mom was a major influence on my life would be quite the understatement, given that she actually gave me my life, but she has influenced me in countless other ways as well, all of which I am truly grateful. The first...
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time + discernment + action = CHANGE
As a person who has worked hard all through this campaign, as a person who has a voice in spiritual communities, I want to say something. I want to find the right words to express the depths of sadness in my heart right now, and to add some words of solace or hope to...
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Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. ~ Pema Chodron
It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted anything related to our presidential election or my own politics. I sort of imagine that anyone reading my posts already knows where I stand, and for the most part, I assume that they agree with me in broad strokes. But...
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29. Liz Caemmerer
29. Liz Caemmerer. When I first met Liz, the co-founder of the Grunewald Guild, I was a little intimidated. She was almost 70, tall and sturdy, and she seemed to almost float into the room, powerful, regal and yet also reserved - there was nothing about her that...
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God is the grace in the space
I walked down the aisle to the Nick Cave song, “Into my Arms.” The first verse starts, “I don’t believe in an interventionist God, but I know darling, that you do.” It continues, “If I did, I would kneel down and ask him, not to intervene when it comes to you.” It was...
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31. EB Ferdig
31. EB Ferdig. I first met EB when she was a student on our Samarya Yoga teacher training two week retreat many years ago. I remember so many things about her from back then - she is hard to forget, with her short blonde hair, her super model presence, her great sense...
read more19. Jk Jaganathan
19. Jk Jaganathan. JK started coming to The Samarya Center, probably for the primary series class, and ended up being on our board of directors, along with Vester Marshall, Nancy Figatner, James Hayden and others, but Vester and JK would often roll up in JK's...
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