Celebrating the Solstices and Equinoxes
Delightful weeks sped by. Sri Yukteswar was planning a religious procession. He asked me to lead the disciples over the town and beach of Puri. The festive day dawned as one of the hottest of the s...
A Secret to Inner Peace: Noise-Canceling Headphones
Have you ever used noise-canceling headphones? If you’re not familiar, here's how they work: The headphones have tiny microphones built into them that pick up external sounds, such as traffic. The ...
“The whole world is my home, and the human race, my family…” –Swami Kriyananda, Affirmations for Self-Healing I feel a bit like an expert, having moved more than twenty times in the last fifteen ye...
Have you ever seen “The Money Pit” with Tom Hanks? It’s an old movie where he and his wife purchase a fixer-upper only to find their new home is beyond repair. My favorite part is a recurring inter...
How Can I Turn Failure into Success?
Whatever your position in life, it is you who put your-self there. Whatever you made yourself, in the near or distant past, is what you are now. God never punishes or rewards you, for He has given...
“Have you read my Essence of the Bhagavad Gita?” In 2007 I met Swami Kriyananda for the first time in India. It was the final day of an intense, two-week pilgrimage to many of the country’s holy si...
