Although many of us are familiar with the name Maya. There are other associations with the name. Some say it means illusion, but in reality, the meaning goes deeper.
Maya is not just an illusion, it’s a living, responsive force. Like an electromagnetic field, it reacts to our focus, our emotions, our attachments. In Buddhist…
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Maya Angelou speaks about about the power of trusting silence, it’s spirituality and it’s ability to transform in times of stillness.
Listen to your Self
Feeling bad is easy, it also tries to lie to you and get you to feel worse.
The mind tends to focus on bad stuff. It's habitual thinking. Habitual thoughts develop when you are a child, long before you had any real control over the direction of your thoughts, or even an understanding of the…
Working together, these heavy hitters maintain a joyful life.
Joy and manifesting joyfully have finally taken their rightful place in the culture. Joy is used by nearly everyone, nearly everywhere as a change agent. It seems like we're tapping into something we've craved for a long time. I remember joining a meditation group where…
Recognizing yourself in others is one of the deepest spiritual connections we can make. We all have moments of universal connections, moments where we can connect and say “yeah, I’ve been there.” We use those to say we are more alike than we are different, and we feel proud of the connection we’ve made to…
you are interested in meditation. You have a kind of curiosity about it, a hankering to try it and find out for yourself. You’ve heard it can put you in touch with your Higher Being or, it can make you happier. You want to know if these things are true. They are all good enough…
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We are the peace. We are the joy. Joy creates the Being and the Being creates the joy.
From dastardly to noble
Now we see that meditation conquers depression, anxiety, lack of sleep, and reduces pain It wasn’t always this way. In the 1950’s and ’60’s those that even knew…
Creedance Clearwater Revival “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” For me and others, songs are meaningful because they can transport us to different times … Another Song With Meaning and Symbols
A version of the golden rule is found in nearly every religion and even in some agnostic and pagan cultures. Is that because being nice is the moral thing to do? Perhaps there is more to it than that. In my upcoming series we'll take a deeper dive into the connection between the Golden Rule…