April 30, 2009  

Praying

"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance....
April 29, 2009  

Ecstasy

“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nat...
April 28, 2009  

Devotion

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound an...
April 27, 2009  

Dedication

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intens...
April 26, 2009  

Confessing

“A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness an...
April 25, 2009  

Wonder

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein To wonder means both ...
April 23, 2009  

Awe

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplat...
April 22, 2009  

Broadening horizons

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men ...
April 21, 2009  

Bliss

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?” Scott Reed Bliss is supre...
April 20, 2009  

Believing

“Believing, is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.” Picasso Believing means to have confidence in the truth, ...
April 20, 2009  

C. S. Lewis

“It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter'.' Ther...
April 19, 2009  

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time ou...
April 16, 2009  

Service Reading April 12, 2009

Howard Thurman The Good Deed The Inward Journey, pg. 43-44 What happens when you do a good deed that meets some urgent need in the life of ...
April 15, 2009  

UNITY

It is well to remember that the enlightened in every age have taught that back of all things there is One Unseen Cause: In studying the teac...
April 13, 2009  

Three of our own - do you know which of these are ours?

CHAPLAINS TO BE COMMISSIONED - April 28 Contributed by Rayne Wolfe - Posted: April 11, 2009 12:00:00 AM   Enlarge The Sonoma Co...
April 12, 2009  

Happy Easter

"You have a Friend within you who is closer than your shadow. This Friend anticipates your every desire, knows your every need and g...
April 10, 2009  

From Edward - One of Ours

http://www.classicalsonoma.org/userfiles/apsonoma_317200914426PM.GIF Daniel Celidore, APSC Principal Oboe HOMETOWN ORCHESTRA PLAYS TO CHEERI...
April 09, 2009  

The Courage to Follow Your Intuition

April 07, 2009  

Oldie but Goodie

Excerpts from a Cat's Daily Diary... Day 983 of my captivity... My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. Th...
April 06, 2009  

Introduction to Buddhism

Crash Course Three Jewels 1. Buddha – the Awakened One 2. Dharma – Buddha’s teachings 3. ...
April 05, 2009  

Prayer to help a friend

God is. That is the eternal reality. Ever flowing into expression. A perfect whole! The Universe… perfect, nothing missing. Whole, inte...
April 04, 2009  

Ubi Caritas

Don't miss service at the Center tomorrow - AWESOME Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
April 04, 2009  

Prayer to accept another person

There is only one life, expressing itself in endless diversity. Giving rise to countless individual forms and manifesting itself in newness ...
April 03, 2009  

Prayer of Acceptance

There is only one life. That life is God’s Life. God’s life is eternal. It was never born, and there was never a time before it existed. It ...
April 02, 2009  

Exponential Times

April 01, 2009  

Lost Generation

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Bhagavad-Gita For Beginners

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The Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God Retold in Simplified English is the latest title in the Essential Wisdom Library. This unique edition of the timeless epic is designed to be accessible for readers without any prior experience of Hinduism. Not merely a translation of the original, Viljoen has simplified and restated the Gita’s complex ideas, so that a first-time reader can fully appreciate the scope and beauty of this magnificent Indian classic. Written in concise, modern language, the retelling vividly captures the power and depth of the original work.

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