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Fasting feeds the soul and cleanses the body. This practice which has been common throughout cultures down through the ages has fallen out of use. But it’s being rediscovered for health benefits, as a way to detox, and as a means to explore one’s relationship to food and to one’s Self. Fasting traditionally means eliminating…

“It is amazing that something so beautiful will be destroyed. But then again, that is the story of our lives.” — Woman who watched the creation of a sand mandala How much we yearn for things to stay the same. But Tibetan Buddhist monks teach that the nature of life is ever-changing and impermanent. They…

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. – Natalie Goldberg So often we are cut off from our feelings. But by staying in our heads and analyzing rather than feeling…

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.”  -Benjamin Disraeli It’s in troubled times that we discover the value of friendship. I once heard someone refer to friend-ship – as a boat that helps you sail through rough and turbulent waters. Be…
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