by Evan Dwan | Apr 19, 2019 | News |
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” – Swami Vivekananda “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – The Buddha When...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2019 | News |
“It was true, as the doctor said, that Ivan Ilyich’s physical sufferings were terrible, but worse than the physical sufferings were his mental sufferings which were his chief torture. His mental sufferings were due to the fact that that night, as he looked at...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2019 | News |
Once, while Gandhi’s train was pulling out of a station, a European reporter ran to his compartment window. “Do you have a message I can take back to my people?” he asked. It was Gandhi’s day of silence, a vital respite from his demanding speaking schedule, so he...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 16, 2019 | News |
My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness,...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 16, 2019 | News |
What is my philosophy of life? This is not a ‘heady’ exercise involving abstractions and metaphysics, but a simple and direct clarification of the meaningful energies that direct your own unfolding. Roger Walsh suggests an exercise whereby we drop this question into...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 16, 2019 | News |
After a long, hard climb up a mountain a group of seekers found themselves in front of a great teacher. ‘How do we become wise?’ they ask. ‘Good choices’, replies the teacher ‘But how do we make good choices?’ ‘From experience’ ‘And how do we get experience?’ ‘Bad...
