By Uma Esmeralda Ritstier You just had a life-altering experience that turned your world upside down. It made you look at life from a whole new perspective. Suddenly, you experience things differently. You start living life inside out, instead of the other way around. Maybe you just entered your first (second, third, or more) […]
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By Chris van der Weide Fear “Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi It is still dark outside. Disoriented, I wake up from the sound of my partner slamming the bathroom door. Immediately and with delicate […]
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By Uma Esmeralda Ritstier I Am Highly Sensitive Are you? Please just stop for a moment. Breathe. And promise you’ll never ever say that again. Saying “I am highly sensitive” is exactly how the struggle continues. By affirming this, you just put another label on yourself (one of the many you have already collected over […]
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By Sol Lys Last week, I was invited into a men’s group on Facebook. The group is a space for sharing with other men. In the group, one of the members asked other men to share their perspectives on manhood and what it means to be a “real man.” Lately, I have been reflecting […]
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By Beata Kucienska “Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!” –St. John of the Cross Before the first taste of awakening, human life is driven by constant, underground fear. Most of our actions are aimed at […]
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By Keralee Froebel “How can you win if you ain’t right within?” –Lauryn Hill “This is just a part of my nature and everyone’s nature, to offer oneself to serve at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate.” –Leonard Cohen In homeopathy, there is a concept of “proving,” or determining whether or not […]
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By Molly Hock Bombings in Iraq. Racism and police violence in America. Attack after attack in Istanbul. Violence and killings leading to genocide in Burma. Thousands stranded in Greece. Bombings in Cairo. Hate crimes in England. My heart cries for the lives lost and the lives touched by the recent violence in Germany. My soul […]
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By Beata Kucienska The Story of Inner Transformation The great stories cherished by humanity contain the essence of life. The most unforgettable stories are those that express the deepest pains and longings of the human heart. We read and watch these stories to connect to ourselves, to feel what is hiding behind the masks of […]
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By Claudiu Vaduva On Christmas Day, I would love to inspire you with a beautiful talk about Christ Consciousness. An even deeper longing is to show you, to invite you, near your own heart so that you may directly feel the radiance of this anointed one. I invite you to experience this intuition, which is […]
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By Natasha Friedman The Yearning of Spiritual Aspiration A student goes to his teacher in ancient India. He asks, “When will I reach enlightenment?” The teacher leads him to a river, takes him out in a rowboat, and asks him to jump overboard. When he does, the teacher thrusts the student’s head under the water […]
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By Beata Kucienska My Experience in the Yazidi Refugee Camp in Greece People in the Yazidi refugee camp look straight into your eyes. They can do it for minutes. As if they weren’t ashamed of anything. As if they had nothing to hide. Their eyes are like big, quiet mirrors… sheets of mild water… windows […]
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By Antoaneta Gotea I have been a practitioner and teacher of Tantra for about twenty years, and I have been asked the question many times, What is Tantra? It is interesting to notice that while writing this sentence I feel a slight contraction, as I know the common connotations given to the word. You might […]
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By Beata Kucienska “I said: ‘What about my heart?’ God said: ‘Tell me what you hold inside it.’ I said: ‘Pain and sorrow.’ God said: ‘Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.’” -Rumi Once, I read a story about a little horse that was staying in a warm and […]
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Circles of Men: Unveiling the Power of Shiva By Laura Samper G. Going in Circles In today’s society, roles are mainly divided by gender: men are supposed to behave in a way that is called “masculine” and women are expected to do their part by supporting this model. When put in perspective, both seem to […]
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Integrating Daily Life into Spirituality
BlogBy Uma Esmeralda Ritstier You just had a life-altering experience that turned your world upside down. It made you look at life from a whole new perspective. Suddenly, you experience things differently. You start living life inside out, instead of the other way around. Maybe you just entered your first (second, third, or more) […]
How to Move from Fright to Freedom: Growing into Love Awareness
BlogBy Chris van der Weide Fear “Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi It is still dark outside. Disoriented, I wake up from the sound of my partner slamming the bathroom door. Immediately and with delicate […]
I Am Highly Sensitive: 5 Tips for Being Sensitive in a World That Isn’t
BlogBy Uma Esmeralda Ritstier I Am Highly Sensitive Are you? Please just stop for a moment. Breathe. And promise you’ll never ever say that again. Saying “I am highly sensitive” is exactly how the struggle continues. By affirming this, you just put another label on yourself (one of the many you have already collected over […]
True Man: A Journey into Wholeness
BlogBy Sol Lys Last week, I was invited into a men’s group on Facebook. The group is a space for sharing with other men. In the group, one of the members asked other men to share their perspectives on manhood and what it means to be a “real man.” Lately, I have been reflecting […]
The Dark Night of the Soul: When Fear Becomes a Blessing
Beata Blogs, BlogBy Beata Kucienska “Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!” –St. John of the Cross Before the first taste of awakening, human life is driven by constant, underground fear. Most of our actions are aimed at […]
A Yogi’s Guide to Trump: Examining Your Reactions
BlogBy Keralee Froebel “How can you win if you ain’t right within?” –Lauryn Hill “This is just a part of my nature and everyone’s nature, to offer oneself to serve at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate.” –Leonard Cohen In homeopathy, there is a concept of “proving,” or determining whether or not […]
The Dance Between Global Awareness and Inner Peace
BlogBy Molly Hock Bombings in Iraq. Racism and police violence in America. Attack after attack in Istanbul. Violence and killings leading to genocide in Burma. Thousands stranded in Greece. Bombings in Cairo. Hate crimes in England. My heart cries for the lives lost and the lives touched by the recent violence in Germany. My soul […]
Inner Transformation: Where Are You in the Journey?
Beata Blogs, BlogBy Beata Kucienska The Story of Inner Transformation The great stories cherished by humanity contain the essence of life. The most unforgettable stories are those that express the deepest pains and longings of the human heart. We read and watch these stories to connect to ourselves, to feel what is hiding behind the masks of […]
The Prayer of the Heart and Christ Consciousness
BlogBy Claudiu Vaduva On Christmas Day, I would love to inspire you with a beautiful talk about Christ Consciousness. An even deeper longing is to show you, to invite you, near your own heart so that you may directly feel the radiance of this anointed one. I invite you to experience this intuition, which is […]
The Ups and Downs of Following Your Spiritual Aspiration
Blog, tasha blogsBy Natasha Friedman The Yearning of Spiritual Aspiration A student goes to his teacher in ancient India. He asks, “When will I reach enlightenment?” The teacher leads him to a river, takes him out in a rowboat, and asks him to jump overboard. When he does, the teacher thrusts the student’s head under the water […]
Guardians of the Heart: My Experience in the Yazidi Refugee Camp
Beata Blogs, BlogBy Beata Kucienska My Experience in the Yazidi Refugee Camp in Greece People in the Yazidi refugee camp look straight into your eyes. They can do it for minutes. As if they weren’t ashamed of anything. As if they had nothing to hide. Their eyes are like big, quiet mirrors… sheets of mild water… windows […]
What Is Tantra?
BlogBy Antoaneta Gotea I have been a practitioner and teacher of Tantra for about twenty years, and I have been asked the question many times, What is Tantra? It is interesting to notice that while writing this sentence I feel a slight contraction, as I know the common connotations given to the word. You might […]
A Walk Beyond Darkness: Transforming Suffering by Opening to Light
Beata Blogs, BlogBy Beata Kucienska “I said: ‘What about my heart?’ God said: ‘Tell me what you hold inside it.’ I said: ‘Pain and sorrow.’ God said: ‘Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.’” -Rumi Once, I read a story about a little horse that was staying in a warm and […]
Brotherhood: Powerful Circles of Men
BlogCircles of Men: Unveiling the Power of Shiva By Laura Samper G. Going in Circles In today’s society, roles are mainly divided by gender: men are supposed to behave in a way that is called “masculine” and women are expected to do their part by supporting this model. When put in perspective, both seem to […]