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10/21/2020

Do not confuse apathy with acceptance.

Find balance between contentment with the way things are and disciplined effort, clear of attachment to the results...santosha and tapas.

10/14/2020

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”

– Joseph Campbell
From A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections On The Art Of Living

Our gift to you today is this image and quote, available in hi-res at www.jcf.org.

Photography and editing by Tyler Lapkin Photography.

07/10/2020

Bookmark this video and watch it over and over whenever you need to remember gratitude.

His message: to open your heart and feel grateful for this day, the beauty of this planet, the people we meet. How? By focusing on the positive aspects rathe...

07/07/2020

I rely on Joyful Belly for Ayurvedic guidance, delicious and appropriate seasonal recipes, and detailed explanations of how to use food to support optimal health. For my Ayurveda-trained friends will appreciate that the author and founder of the organization studied Ayurveda under Vasant Lad. Check out his wise approach to staying healthy during COVID.

Watch the Corona Virus Video The elderly have coronavirus symptoms but many children do not. How can we use this clue to prevent and help reduce the severity of coronavirus? In this video you will learn how the risk factors and d

06/18/2020

The only thing you can work to evolve is yourself.

06/02/2020

It’s not us against them. There are not two sides. We are all suffering. We are all doing the best we can.

Each of us is informed by our own life experiences, our deeply textured cultures, what we’ve learned from our families and the people in our lives, our vision of the world. There are as many “sides” as there are people.

Violence is a release valve for the anger that we can’t process. Anger is a natural human response to not being heard or seen. Anger is a byproduct of fear – fear around what happens when things aren’t the way we think they should be, fear of change, fear of losing something dear to us, fear of the loss of who we think we are, fear for our very lives and that of those we love.

But there is no us, there is no them. We are all the same. We each process things through our individual lenses using whatever mental and emotional tools we possess. Instead of throwing rocks from our side, what if we laid down our opinions and just saw each other? Instead of fighting, what if we led with kindness? It takes courage to let go and open to possibilities instead of hiding behind what we think we know.

It will be painful to our egos to let go of the attachment to old identities, but the only way to evolve is to do the difficult internal work. The old must be destroyed to birth the new. It won’t be easy. Allow the uncertainty and fear to be there and make room for whatever new perspectives emerge.

Change starts with each one of us. We have to be willing to see what we haven’t seen, listen to what we haven’t heard, open our hearts to things we don’t understand. We are not separate. We are one.

05/26/2020

Prana is not the breath, though it is closely related to it at a physical level. Many people define prana as the breath or call it the breath. This can help us approach the vast

04/07/2020

Shifting Towards Love in An Uncertain World: This is a free online retreat taking place April 18 and 19, featuring wisdom teaching from Ram Dass, Mirabai Starr, Krishna Das, East Forest, Govind Das, Bruce Damer and more...

03/29/2020

Video Series: A Steady Heart in Time of Coronavirus with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach During this time of coronavirus, a time of collective fears and difficulty, it is crucial to find ways to steady the heart, to connect compassionately with ourselves and with each other. A Steady Heart will allow us...