5 Things You Should Know About The NEW Moon (& Eclipse) April 30th, 2022

Liberation. It’s a word that often gets tossed out as the goal of yoga or the goal of meditation. Liberation.

I had been wanting to visit somewhere that no one spoke English, just to see if I could survive for a week not knowing the native language. That was something I had been thinking about with no real inclination about where to go to accomplish this.

What are the Four Goals of Life? Dharma, Artha, Kama, & Moksha are the drives that are behind all that we do. By understanding their impact on our lives, and creating our experience based on them allows us to clarify, increase, improve, and joyfully embody all that we have and all that we are.

Here’s an interesting question… I would like to know more about the myth of breaking a mirror gives you seven years of bad luck, were did this originate and was there a mirror god in any culture ever?

What we more readily see as the curse of going without is actually the formidable opportunity: to notice, continually, the privilege of not having – it’s something marking us as special. A personal ‘for instance’ is drinking. I gave up the right to drink years ago because I couldn’t partake in moderation. Now I have the privilege of not having. My life’s easier because of it.

I’m at home working on a shirt design and waiting for my pregnant wife to return home from work with our kids. On one computer I have my laptop going and on another I have the net going with facebook up looking at the top news and all of a sudden I see a terrible update: Apple has announced that Steve Jobs has died.

Have you ever been afraid that if you start to get close to God He might make you be a priest? Here’s the story of how I discovered the one truth that let me to discover my vocation with peace of heart…

In a lecture at a SRF temple one of Paramahansa Yogananda’s monastic disciples was talking about spiritual marriage and was asked is it ok to marry a non-spiritual person? He replied “no, here’s why, there are many qualifications to consider before tying the knot. The most important one for an ideal marriage is…

So, what is wrong and what is right? What is good and what is bad? There isn’t always one objective set of rules that will always give us a precise answer.

Nearing the end of our month long walkabout in the outback of Australia, our bus was traveling northward towards our destination for the evening, Cooinda. Located in Kakadu Wildlife Park, Cooinda contains a large billybong, or small lake. Billybongs are created by the monsoonal rains that are common in the BackO’Beyond during the rainy season. They hold large reservoirs of water that the wildlife thus survive on during the long droughts often experienced during the winter months.

I believe we are meant to grow in our knowledge of God and Spirit matters as much as we grow in our knowledge about the physical world with its new technological advances. We constantly learn how the use the latest cell phones, why not explore and learn new things when it comes to God? But we experience nothing quite as fearful as questioning our beliefs about God and our place in this great and vast universe.

Did you know that you can save money, time and energy by following your inner guidance? If the answer is yes, are you taking full advantage of it? This article is inspired by a reader’s experience of following her inner guidance.