Namaste Now!

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulty but is to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring to them the transformative power of our heart. - Jack Kornfield

the spiritual life
How does one live a spiritual life? By invoking the ‘spirit’ of things into daily living. Everything that happens to [...]

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. - Henry David Thoreau

awaken to
We’re consummate sleep walkers! We walk around hypnotized, dazed into submission by the lethargy of our habits. As intelligent and creative children of the Universe it’s our prerogative to [...]

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Clean but the mirror and the message shines forth. - A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

what mirror?
We are born a tabula rasa in my opinion. It takes time and good nutrition to grow healthy bodies; the same principle applies to our minds. Our minds do get disciplined to varying degrees because of schooling and life itself, [...]

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The more significance you give the moment, the more the moment has the opportunity to be significant. - Sunirmalya

the moment
This moment is significant. It’s important because we’re here, right now. It’s where our focus is, it’s where we’re present, it’s all we can experience. As we’ve heard; the past is history, the future is a [...]

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. - Chinese Proverb

starts here
All effort must start at the base, at home, with us… This means several things:

Gandhi said ‘we must be the change we want to see in the world’. Right off the bat we know it’s us who [...]

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