Another gem by Kent Nerburn filled with Native American wisdom, keen insights into the dark side of American history, and soul-stirring observations about ceremonies, the Great Mystery, and the spiritual practice of listening.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Excerpt: The Wolf at Twilight
A Native American elder's on how the Creator sends different teachers and abilities to different peoples.
Book Review: Memories of Muhammad
A well-developed, rounded, and revealing portrait of the life, work, and legacies of the Prophet Muhammad.
Book Excerpt: When People Grieve
On the power of love to heal pain, grief, and loss.
Book Excerpt: Memories of Muhammad
The marriage of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadija as a model of an intimate relationship.
Living Spiritual Teachers Project: Byron Katie
A profile with bibliography and distinctive spiritual teachings of Byron Katie, developer of the method of self-interrogation and realization called The Work.
Feature Film Review: Before Tomorrow
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Keywords: indigenous peoples, story, youth, conscious aging, cross-cultural, survival, community
Title: Before Tomorrow
Director: Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu
Alliance Film Release
12/09 Not Rated
A powerful Inuit film about the wisdom and skills of elders, the devastation wrought by contact with Westerners, the importance of community, and the magical connection between grandparents and grandchildren.
Book Excerpt: Sadhu Sundar Singh
A teaching story illustrating how in helping others we receive help ourselves.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: We May Be Born with an Urge to Help
New scientific findings that show children are by nature helpful and cooperative.
Feature Film Review: Everybody’s Fine
A richly developed dramatic comedy about parenting, family secrets, and the toxic fallout from high expectations and pressure to succeed advanced by so many well-meaning fathers.
Feature Film Review: Brothers
A riveting drama about a Marine captain who brings the violence of the war in Afghanistan home to his wife, two daughters, and brother in America.
Feature Film Review: Gigante
A laid-back drama that gives us a close encounter with a lonely man whose desire animates his life in a new and adventurous direction.
Book Excerpt: Web of Silence
On the need for silence in a world of dense communication and noise.
Relieve Stress:Financial Troubles, Low Self Esteem
Relieve Stress from Financial troubles. Low Self EsteemAnother question that I answered. It could help you too.Q: How do I relieve stress: motherhood, financial troubles, death. Low self Esteem.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------There will be motherhood, there will be financial troubles and obviously death has to happen. Just see that stress is
Meditation, Enlightenment & Paradox
Meditation, Enlightenment & ParadoxThere are different types of meditation. Some types are for relieving stress or tension and some are more concerned with physical health and postures but the main goal of all of it is enlightenment.Yes, people start on this with regards to their problems or maybe releiving stress or increase their energy levels but soon find that there is a deeper level. A level
False beliefs and Emotional Healing to develop emotional intelligence
Keys to Emotional Healing and develop Emotional Intelligence.Here is a something I saw in a site.It was about someone who was emotional about how she behaved with people who did some disrespectful and discourteous things which she didnt like. The problem was that she didnt like the way she behaved with these kind of people and was very upset about it.She thought she should have behaved in a
Millionaire Mind- Meditations Manifesting Abundance
Three Essential requirements to learn Self Hypnosis Quickly
Three Essential Requirements to learn Self Hypnosis QuicklyWithout this knowledge , your self hypnosis efforts will be futile1.The first thing is your ability to get into a trance quickly i.e. to get into a very deep state of relaxation where your mind is open to suggestions. The quicker you are able to learn to get into this trance state, the better. The more you practice doing this, the deeper
Non duality and manifestation–Law of attraction
I dont know whether to believe this law of attraction thing or not. Although some thing tells me that It is true. Actually it was when I read about non duality that everything changed for me. So according to me , what happens in the law of attraction is that we assume and believe that we are at point A( which is umm, being poor and struggler or low self esteem) and we want to move to point B (
Law of Attraction– Manifesting Wealth Beyond Reason
Why isn't the law of attraction working for me?I have seen lots of these questions everywhere and all of those seem to be around "why isn't it working for me?" or "how soon does it work"? or " I am thinking rich but I am not growing rich"? See, if you have also been guilty of asking yourself and everyone else these questions, then you need not worry. This has happened to everyone but to make this