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Does It Ever Pay To Be Angry? 11 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
No one can really enjoy getting angry, it’s like drinking poison or being stuck in glue, it can arise out of nowhere and often out-stays its welcome. Anger can make enemies out of friends or family, a...
The Power of No 10 Oct 2012 | 10:51 pm
We have all had times when we say yes to someone but really want to say no. It’s often difficult to say no because of the desire to be loved: we want to be helpful, we want to show we care, but we may...
The Enemy Is Within, Not Without 18 Sep 2012 | 12:55 am
We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence in ourselves. We must work on ourselves as well as with those w...
If You’re Not Here Then Where Are You? 25 Apr 2012 | 05:01 am
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon Who said life would be like walking the yellow brick road, or that the human condition would be easy? And why is it so i...
How Hot Is Your Anger? 7 Apr 2012 | 11:40 am
Soon after Nelson Mandela’s release from twenty-seven years in jail Bill Clinton asked him if he was angry the day he finally walked away free. “Surely,” Clinton said, “You must have felt some anger?”...
Shut Up and Be Still! 31 Oct 2011 | 04:37 am
Ed is a passionate and expert skier. When you sit for meditation and your mind drifts you can just bring it back to your practice and continue. But if you are skiing down a steep mountain and you lose...
Where Spirituality and Religion Do and Don’t Meet 7 Oct 2011 | 03:37 am
There is no true religion or spirituality without kindness and love. Swami Brahmananda Ed was raised in the Jewish faith (as he says, on his parents side!), Deb was raised a Quaker. We both began spi...
What The Buddha Might Say To Rick Perry 7 Sep 2011 | 11:38 am
You may try but you can never run away from yourself. Swami Brahmananda While we were living in England we had our own TV series and interviewed the British minister Jonathan Aitken, who had just bee...
Meditation Is Not What You Think 15 Jun 2011 | 04:59 am
However you try to define meditation, it’s not that. Swami Brahmananda Through many years of being involved with meditation we have seen how easily people miss the point, mainly because they take the...
We Are Not Alone Here 14 Apr 2011 | 02:56 am
If a butterfly becomes extinct in Australia, it affects the ecosystem of the whole world, because a third of our food supply depends on insect pollination. Caring for each other and the planet is, the...
