One Thing Sacred

If you do not meet the sacred in yourself, you will not meet the sacred in anything; if you meet the sacred anywhere, even in the smallest thing, you will have found the sacred within yourself. That is the first lesson, before all others. If you have not learned this lesson, reaching for another will …

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To Walk the Razor’s Edge

It takes a lot of courage to stay in one’s job for many years, and it takes courage to begin relationships, more courage to try to make them work, and more courage yet to decide they have ended. It takes courage to face the challenges life brings to us.

Moonrise

The french doors which open onto the veranda have been open all night, and the sound of the breakers on the blackstone promenade where alternately lulling us to sleep and calling us out of it. Either the waves or the rain, which greeted us on our arrival in Pondicherry and has come in sheets and …

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Energy

Manny Muros: Today we climbed the mountain located behind the ashram. In 1900 a 16 year old local seeker climbed that mountain and stayed for 17 years in a cave. Then moved to a second cave for 6 more years. When he came down his followers created what is now the ashram where we are staying…. …

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Life in the Ashram

Two days into the trip and, as I previously mentioned, two years of living done. You know how to live longer? Travel, make yourself new, open up to new sights and sounds and people. You may pass away at the same second of the same minute of the same hour and day and year as …

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