July 2014 Newsletter

A fish doesn't know it's wet.

Okay, I'll admit that this line isn't one of the great spiritual teachings. But I think it can be useful on our spiritual path.

By quieting ourselves and going inside, we may be able to observe ourselves and our lives from a less-involved viewpoint, and thereby gain great insights. By getting away from the emotions that bounce us around, and our reactive processes, we have a better chance to understand how we are really living our lives.

What is it about your life that might be obvious to others — and certainly to the Divine — that you yourself just don't notice? A fish doesn't know it's wet — but it is always and completely living in water. In what do you live? Is it where you want to be?

Happy splashing,

Timothy

Early Days of Ananda: Living History

THIS WEEKEND! July 4 – 6

Speakers will include many of the long-time Ananda folk you know and love: Jyotish, Devi, Vidura, Durga, Ananta, Maria, Devarshi, Parvati, Bharat, Anandi, and many, many more!

SPECIAL GUEST TEACHERS

Nayaswami Asha:
Raising Kundalini

July 18 – 20

Kundalini is a conscious, divine force that is magnetized to rise through use of techniques together with qualities including devotion, love, generosity of spirit, and kindness. Nayaswami Asha will focus on these essential qualities of our spiritual life.
Asha is known and loved for her ability to make the spiritual journey inviting, doable, filled with humor at our inevitable foibles, and full of hope for our eventual success.

Sundara Traymar:
Nature Awareness for Greater God Awareness

July 18 – 20

Experience nature deeply, with awareness activities created by Ananda's renowned nature educator, Joseph Bharat Cornell. An inspirational, rejuvenating, educational, and fun adventure for your last weekend of summer.

Find greater peace and explore new ways to see nature's beauty. Be guided into inner calmness and stillness that will deepen your affinity with nature, with others, and with the Divine.

Sundara is the Director of Sharing Nature USA. Loved by all who know him, Sundara has extensive experience teaching, lecturing and leading groups in Sharing Nature exercises.

Inspiration from Swami Kriyananda

“After his release from confinement, Cellini stated that, to know perfect joy, arrange to be thrown into a dark dungeon with no furnishings but a perpetually damp mattress, to be given no sustenance but dry bread and water, to have only rats for companions, and enough daylight to permit only an hour of reading every day. A further condition Cellini attached to this paradisaical state was simply this: Read the Bible for that one hour, and during the rest of your time, pray.”

“The joy I experienced in that dungeon,” Cellini wrote later, “I have never in my life known, before or since.”

From The Hindu Way of Awakening
Crystal Clarity Publishers.

Inspiration from Paramhansa Yogananda

“Teach Me to Drown in Thy Light and Live”

“The sunlight of this world, shining upon my eager hopes and brief, fickle fulfillments, burned me repeatedly with dissatisfaction. Now I will quench my thirst forever in Thy radiant waters!

“In Thy vast, enchanting sea of light I will swim joyfully forever. Teach me to drown in Thee and live, rather than live in a mirage-paradise of earthliness.””

From Whispers from Eternity
Crystal Clarity Publishers.

Costa Rica Yoga Vacation

November 29 – December 6  2014

Join us for a joyful and relaxing retreat on the blue waters of Costa Rica's gorgeous Pacific Coast.

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