The following is an excerpt from Amy Edelstein’s reflections in preparation for entering the new school year. It was originally published in the Inner Strength Foundation September 2018 newsletter. You can also read the full piece on the Inner Strength Foundation website. Inner Strength programs are going into this year strong Today I finally put the finishing touches on … Read More
A New Biography of Yogananda: Amy Interviews Philip Goldberg about his Insightful New Book
Amy speaks with Philip Goldberg about his illuminating new book The Life of Yogananda Philip Goldberg’s authoritative biography of Yogananda – the first ever – was published on April 24, 2018. The Los Angeles Times named Paramahansa Yogananda “the 20th century’s first superstar guru” and today, nearly a century after he arrived in the United States, he’s undisputedly still the … Read More
I AM * Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa “Your very life-breath must become the conscious, timeless affirmation of Reality by Reality SOHAM, SOHAM–I a It, It is I. Only the dualistic imagination perceives some separate practitioner who akes this primordial affirmation SOHAM. To lose completely any notion of separate self, no matter how subtle or instinctive is the true definition of sannyasa, the blessed life of renunciation … Read More
A Brave & Startling Truth * Maya Angelou
In honor of the life, Spirit, and great work of one of our foremost seers and scribes, Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A … Read More
Start Close In * David Whyte
David Whyte Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take. Start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet, your own way of starting the conversation. Start with your own question, give up on other people’s questions, don’t let them … Read More
Homecoming to the Divine * Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel Our greatest problem is not how to continue but how to return. “How can I repay unto the Lord all his bountiful dealings with me?”* When life is an answer, death is a homecoming. The deepest wisdom man can attain is to know that his destiny is to aid, to serve. . . This is the meaning … Read More
Between Action & Inaction * Chuang-Tzu
Chuang-Tzu There should be no action, neither should there be inaction. Chuang-Tzu For more inspiration, meditate with the mystics