People like working with others who like working with them. It’s that simple! It will be the cornerstone of anything you build of your own happiness and fulfillment.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Community, Spiritual Growth
A Place Called Ananda, Parenting and Education, Spiritual Community, Spiritual Growth
Center Everywhere, Circumference Nowhere
It’s been months since I’ve written. Life is full to overflowing, and every day is a new challenge just to keep up. I’m sure that sounds familiar – I don’t know anyone who doesn’t feel busy and pressed for time. I have found blessings in busyness though. More than any other time in my life, I feel the horizons of … Read More
A Place Called Ananda, Spiritual Growth
Daily Inspiration
Have you ever clicked on “Daily Inspiration,” near the top of any page on www.ananda.org? If you have, you’ll have seen a saying taken from the book Do It Now!, probably with a related talk by Swami Kriyananda. The sayings are short, inspiring, and extremely practical.
I suppose there’s some cosmic law at work here, …
A Place Called Ananda, Divine Love, Music and the Arts, Parenting and Education, Spiritual Growth
Stories of Yogananda
Some of my earliest memories are hearing stories of his life when my mother and father would paraphrase stories from the Autobiography of a Yogi. My parents made a point to keep Paramhansa Yogananda part of my life. I remember informally acting out several scenes from his life when my mother did an Ananda preschool in our home. It was … Read More
A Place Called Ananda, Spiritual Growth
The Choice of Realities
About ten years ago, when I still lived in Portland, I wistfully imagined life at Ananda Village as one of simplicity and ease, where the stresses of ordinary life ceased to be. A year later I got to know people here a little better, and once met a teacher walking from Hansa Temple to the Expanding Light, holding a box … Read More
A Place Called Ananda, Spiritual Community, Spiritual Growth
Ananda Community in India
For the past two years, I have had the blessing of living with Swami Kriyananda and many Ananda friends in India, our spiritual homeland. My husband Tim and I moved to the Ananda ashram in New Delhi in October 2006. This past November we moved to Pune with a few other “pioneering members,” taking up residence in several apartments of … Read More
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
How Paramhansa Yogananda Worked with People and Other Lessons from My Guru
The highest octave of human love is the unconditional love a guru gives to his disciple. To find God, we must learn to love Him the same way: unconditionally.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Learning that God Is the Doer
To activate the law of success, we needed to remain open to what God was trying to teach us and attune to His will, not our personal desires.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Ways To Cultivate Deep Feeling
Feeling is a response that’s awakened in us as we focus our awareness on something: a person, an event, a circumstance. It’s a way of gaining understanding, and it’s very different from the way the intellect understands. Feeling understands via relationship and, in its higher expressions, from the inside; it is centered in the heart.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Lord, I Am Thine
The life of a disciple can be summed up as ever deeper self-giving into the vibration of God and Guru. As we offer up our limitations, we open ourselves to their influence and they can enter our heart of hearts and change us.
