Awaken Mind – Love

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David Deida Love Can Be Fierce

May 14th, 2021|

by David Deida: Truth: As you grow spiritually, first you become neutralized and then you bloom sexually. […]

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Swami Satchidananda: Apostle Of Peace

April 12th, 2021|

“Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.” His holiness, Swami Satchidananda, affectionately called Gurudev by many, […]

Swami Satchidananda, Woodstock’s Guru, Dies at 87

April 12th, 2021|

by Douglas Martin: Swami Satchidananda, the guru with the gigantic cottony beard who opened the Woodstock festival by calling music ”the celestial sound that controls the whole universe,” died on Monday in Madras in South [...]

Truth Is One, Paths Are Many’

April 12th, 2021|

by Daniel Redwood DC: The Reverend Sri Swami Satchidananda has for many years been an apostle of peace in a world filled with war, a herald of moderation in a culture addicted to the extremes. […]

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A Conscious Union

April 9th, 2021|

by Gina Hardy: A Conscious Union – The Ultimate Relationship… […]

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Karen Maezen Miller I’m Here

April 7th, 2021|

by Karen Maezen Miller: Years and years ago when I was young and busy and my mother was alive, I would rarely call home… […]

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True Freedom: Caring Deeply Without Striving

April 2nd, 2021|

by Barry Boyce: When we awaken our fearless heart and honor our desire to be in communion with others—valuing connection over control—joy emerges of its own accord… […]

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Thich Nhat Hanh Growing Together

March 30th, 2021|

by Thich Nhat Hanh: In his introduction to the book, Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us […]

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All You Need Is Love?

March 15th, 2021|

By James Ballantyne: “Can we dare to think people are kind, and shape organisations around this view?” […]

Sarada Devi: The Holy Mother

March 11th, 2021|

by Swami Nikhilananda: HOLY MOTHER, in a unique way, fulfilled the duties of wife, mother, and nun.  […]

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Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time: Sharon Salzberg

March 1st, 2021|

by Sharon Salzberg: It’s only after we’ve practiced many times that we’ll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile… […]

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Gabrielle Bernstein, and the women who follow her

February 28th, 2021|

by Lisa Elaine Held: On a freezing Friday night in New York, a line of women in their 20s and 30s, wearing Tory Burch flats and carrying Longchamps bags, forms on Third Avenue. […]

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Love + Wisdom = Buddha

February 20th, 2021|

Zen teacher Norman Fischer looks at the famed Heart Sutra and explains why compassion and emptiness go hand in hand… […]

A Gift of Love

February 19th, 2021|

A musical interpretation of some of Rumi’s poetry. […]

Rumi: Say I Am You

February 19th, 2021|

A Sufi poem by Rumi written elegantly to inspire and to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine. […]

Rumi: Sufi Poem

February 19th, 2021|

A Rumi poem fused with images and music. […]

In Rumi’s Footsteps: Konya, Turkey

February 19th, 2021|

by Brad Gooch: Arriving in Konya, a medium-sized city in Turkey’s Central Anatolian heartland, about an hour’s flight southeast of Istanbul, my brief mumble to the cab driver—“Hotel Rumi”—was direction enough. […]

A Rumi of One’s Own

February 19th, 2021|

by Rachel Aviv: Several years ago Kabir Helminski, a sheikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufism, received a call from Madonna’s producer, who wanted to hire his troupe of whirling dervishes for a music video [...]