Blessing must arise from within your own mind. It is not something that comes from outside. When the positive qualities of your mind increase and the negativities decrease, that is what blessing means. The Tibetan word for blessing … means transforming into magnificent potential. Therefore, blessing refers to the development of virtuous qualities you did not previously have and the improvement of those good qualities you have already developed. ― Dalai Lama XIV
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
"Awake: the Life of Yogananda" - This Week on SUMMER OF PEACE
THIS WEEK ON SUMMER OF PEACE:
- **TODAY** TUESDAY, September 2nd, 9:00am Pacific
Interview with the Filmmakers of "AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda" with Lisa Leeman & Paola di Florio & Peter Rader - **TODAY** TUESDAY, September 2nd, 11:00am Pacific
The Global Coherence Initiative and the Global Care Rooms with Deborah Rozman & Claudia Welss - SUNDAY, September 7th, 9:00am Pacific
Spirituality & Peace Sunday with Sister Draupadi
Dear Ron Alexander,
Today, our first session is with Paola di Florio, Peter Rader and Lisa Leeman, the directors and producer of Awake: The Life of Yogananda. I recently had the delight of attending a screening of this film and was deeply touched by the ground-breaking impact Yogananda has had on the world.
Yogananda arrived in the United States from India in 1920 and began teaching the “scientific” method of Kriya Yoga. He had to overcome racism and death threats, yet he and a group of monastics paved the way for the mainstreaming of yoga and meditation in the West.
Yogananda referred to concepts of energy and consciousness decades before scientific research could prove them. While the United States was dropping the atomic bomb, Yogananda was teaching how to transform oneself through yoga and then, by example, inspiring others, similar to Gandhi - “be the change.”
It is clear now to see that this timeless science of yoga was intentionally brought to the West to help humanity find peace in this critical and precarious atomic age.
   | TUESDAY, September 2nd, 9:00am Pacific Interview with the Filmmakers of "AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda" with Lisa Leeman & Paola di Florio & Peter Rader Indian mystic Paramahansa Yogananda brought yoga and meditation to the West in 1920 and authored the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi.” By personalizing his own quest for enlightenment and sharing his struggles along the path, Yogananda made ancient teachings accessible to a modern audience. This documentary examines the world of yoga, modern and ancient, east and west and explores why millions today have turned their attention inwards, bucking the temptations of the material world in pursuit of Self-Realization.   
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A Magical Surprise
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.
Charles Morgan(gratefulness.org)
Monday, September 1, 2014
ACCEPTANCE!
An excellent Jeff Foster (www.lifewithoutacentre.com), thanks Susan and Ra!
Acceptance is not passivity. It is not weakness or 'giving in'.
It is not the end of activity.
It is the end of re-activity - the tendency towards automatic, habitual, unconscious responses that emerge from a deep disconnection from the present moment, a rejection of the Now.
Acceptance is not passivity. It is full alignment with life; the birth of creativity, and love.
- Jeff Foster
It is not the end of activity.
It is the end of re-activity - the tendency towards automatic, habitual, unconscious responses that emerge from a deep disconnection from the present moment, a rejection of the Now.
Acceptance is not passivity. It is full alignment with life; the birth of creativity, and love.
- Jeff Foster
Night Flowers Blooming Brings Hope
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
Corita Kent(gratefulness.org)
Anne Frank was an Amazing "Old Soul"
Precious World with Erlinda Avila
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
~ Anne Frank ~
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