By Isha Foundation
The whole dimension of spirituality is to grow beyond the physical, to taste something beyond the physical. If your involvement with the physical is very deep, naturally your attachment to the body is very strong.
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Stephanie's passions include keeping the ancient traditions alive and updating them so that they evolve with us, suiting our current environment and lifestyles.
I must confess that I am an African-American woman, a Christian woman, a woman who believes there is more than one path to God.
An old saw in the Jesuits is that the two hardest days of the year are New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day.
I wonder how the world would be, how we would live, how children would learn if we intentionally cultivated the spirit of being kind each day. In a world filled with fear and cruelty, we are itching for an outbreak of this characteristic.
There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.
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Saying you’re too agitated to meditate or pray is like saying you’re too sick to see a doctor or too tired to take a nap.
Ajahn Thanasanti explains why practicing celibacy is one of the best ways to experience and understand our sexuality.
It takes nothing away from Henri’s insights when I say the church is suffering its present sexual/celibate crisis precisely because it has not tolerated enough talk about the mental-emotional-sexual dimensions of celibacy.
Yogic celibacy is a way of uncovering the hidden dimensions within, not a way to suppress or repress anything; it is a way to become more open and available in relationship, not a way to withdraw.
“How do we say YES to life if we have chosen to be celibate outside of marriage;” the one-word answer is, “gratefully,” because the YES to life is gratefulness — grate-fulness — our full response to the gratuitous gift of life.