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2.  DISCOVERING THE SECRET OF LIFE
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Life has to be a yoga: union with your true being. Ask yourself: why am I not fully Enlightened? What are my blocks? What is delaying my goal? Be honest and you will find something. All situations in life are working out our nature.

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10.  THE ELOQUENCE OF SILENCE
by Thomas Moore
If you fill up your life, nothing unexpected can happen. You have to plan and build empty spaces ahead of time so that when an opportunity comes, you can see it and move freely.

14.  ACTIVE HOPE
by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Active Hope is a practice. Like tai chi or gardening, it is something we do rather than have. It is a process we can apply to any situation.

18.  DREAM OF A HIDDEN TREASURE
by Rasoul Sorkhabi
In Rumi’s Masnavi Ma’navi, “Couplets on Spiritual Matters,” he tells the story of a man who went to Egypt in search of a hidden treasure, and discovered “grace hidden in hardship.”

21.  AWAKE, EMPTY AND INTIMATE
by Paul Weiss
Our divine emptiness, sometimes blissfully revealed, is equally our empathetic recognition, our dedication to, and our compassion for, all beings.

24.  PILGRIMAGE TO AMARNATH WITH SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
by Sister Nivedita
Swami Vivekananda traveled to Kashmir in 1898 and stayed with western disciples in Srinagar. At the end of their stay, he invited Sister Nivedita to accompany him to one of India’s holiest shrines.

28.  HEALING COLLECTIVE TRAUMA
by Thomas Hübl
The points of pain that we feel in our individual and collective bodies were left by accumulating traumas, but the call so many of us hear is an invitation toward collective healing, the ultimate hero’s journey.

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2.  STEPS TO INNER PEACE
by Swami Amar Jyoti
To make our peace dependent upon anything is missing the peace. Practicing virtues lightens the ego and removes blocks to finding our peace within.

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10.  SACRED: IN SEARCH OF MEANING
Text and photographs by Chris Rainier
My life has been and remains committed to recording and celebrating these wonders on film as reminders of the past to future generations still unborn—as postcards to the future.

16.  RECOGNIZING THE CONDITIONED MIND
by Caverly Morgan
It takes courage to go up against personal conditioning. It also takes courage to go up against collective conditioning.

20.  NOW IS THE HOUR OF HER RETURN
by Clark Strand
These poems celebrate the Return of the Mother in both Her tender and terrible aspects, for She is both of these at once.

24.  911 FROM YOUR SOUL
by Jeanine Thompson
For each of us, there will come a time when our Soul longs to birth something for us and through us. When we ignore the call, it doesn’t go away; it gets louder.

26.  THURSDAYS IN JAIL
by Tina Welling
I came fortified with a two-inch-thick file of journaling exercises and quotes that encouraged interest in looking inward. I told the inmates—most always men, only occasionally women—that this was where freedom was found.

31.  HELPING OTHERS WITH DEATH AND DYING
by Pema Chödrön
Whatever your beliefs are, the overall idea is to be sensitive that the person is going through a major transition… to be open and present with whatever arises.

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2 LIVING IN ONENESS
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Without realizing oneness no one can be free. Without love and joy our path will be cold, mechanical, intellectual and egotistical. Whatever we experience and perceive in our mind and life reflects this oneness.

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10  A LITANY OF WILD GRACES
by Sharifa Oppenheimer
These poetry meditations explore the sacred nature of earth in telluric landscapes alive with spirit and the personhood of all beings—our fundamental kinship with all.

14  THREADS OF LOVE
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Our present story is broken, its myth of progress and endless economic growth fostering ecocide. Nature in both Her beauty and violence is calling us to return to where the wind and the stars still speak to us.

20  THE GARLAND OF WISDOM OF DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS
OF SRI SHANKARACHARYA
by Prem Prakash
Shankaracharya’s wisdom exemplifies the yoga of wisdom, highlighting the unity of all beings, and the divine consciousness that permeates all.

22  RADICAL LOVING, ONE GOD, ONE WORLD, ONE PEOPLE
by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, PhD
What if there were no limitations to our love? What if we simply love? What if all the barriers come down and Divine Love just pours through us into every moment and every space?

27  SILENCE, GETTING YOUR DAILY VITAMIN S
by Erica Longdon
Even ten minutes a day, spent in silence, can help you feel less stressed and more focused and creative.

30 GROWING CONSCIOUSNESS
by Leo Carver
Every moment of life is a seed, and the present moment is always the start of what is to come. In cultivating greater present-moment awareness, we plant the seed from which our life may bloom.

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2 OPENING TO DIVINE LOVE
by Swami Amar Jyoti
Selfless love frees us from fear and pain. It is not only soothing, relaxing and healing, it shows us that higher love within us. To the proportion ego reduces, our love grows, peace grows, wisdom grows, and our consciousness opens.

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10  LETTING GO OF NOTHING
by Peter Russell
To let go, we have to cease the “doing” of holding on. And that requires a quite different approach.

14  LIVE FROM YOUR HEART LIKE YOU MEAN IT
by Jennifer Muscato
Living from within our hearts means we don’t have to settle for a “close enough” version of ourselves. It means we don’t have to be a slave to fear.

16  TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INCARCERATION
by Steve Taylor
For a small number of prisoners, the lack of distractions may have a positive spiritual effect. It may lead them to reflect on their lives and to explore their being in a way they have never done before.

21  GODDESS PELE LIVES!
by Jonathan Ansley Ward
She is known as “The Earth-Eating Woman” and “She That Shapes the Sacred Lands.” Her home is one of the most active volcanoes on earth.

24  TRUST YOUR CREATIVITY
by Fabiana Fondevila
How often have you felt as if you were transported elsewhere by a magic carpet? That carpet is called “imagination”—one of the gifts that evolution has bequeathed to us.

28  THE TIP OF THE SPEAR
by Thomas J. Bussen
Growing up in Switzerland, Jeronimo Calderon has come full circle to reconnect with his Aymara heritage, and their holistic, complimentary, integrative, collective view of life.

30 ENDURING CONNECTIONS
by Sarah A. Bowen
An animal chaplain offers compassionate support after the loss of animal companions, and ways to honor their lives through sacred sendoffs.