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Shut Up and Be Still!

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 concentration you could hit a tree. Ed teaches this, calling it inner skiing, where our perception [...]

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Where Spirituality and Religion Do and Don’t Meet

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 spiritually seeking at the same time in the late 1960′s. Ed was in his twenties living in New York City, [...]

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What The Buddha Might Say To Rick Perry

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 been released from prison. He was an arrogant, egotistical man who, like many politicians in America, think they can get [...]

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Cool Things We Can Do When Someone Burns Us

Anger, aggression and bitterness are like thieves in the night who steal our ability to love and care.

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How To Turn Fear Into A Blessing

Allowing fear in and making friends with it so it becomes an ally

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BE THE CHANGE: 7 Great Women Who Are Transforming The World From The Inside Out

You must be the change you want to see in the world, as Mahatma Gandhi so eloquently said. In other words, change has to start within ourselves; we cannot expect the world to change if we do not. Instead of focusing on the problems, we can start to live the solutions.

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