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Meditation & Spirituality

By Robert Kopecky — 2020

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On Wednesdays we will be focusing on Meditation. We will explore different types of meditations, share our meditation practices, discuss benefits of meditation, discuss meditation books, and help each other cultivate and strengthen our own meditation practices. See more...

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The Way of Silence: Engaging the Sacred in Daily Life

The Way of Silence draws heavily on Buddhist teachings to cultivate the practice of "deep" listening: turning away from noise and distraction, paying attention, and embracing quiet. The Way of Silence embraces paradox: absence versus presence in silence. Dynamic tranquility.

David Steindl-Rast

Practicing Mindfulness: 75 Essential Meditations to Reduce Stress, Improve Mental Health, and Find Peace in the Everyday

Mindfulness meditations are a great way to cultivate awareness and acceptance of the here and now―Practicing Mindfulness makes it easy and accessible with 75 evidence-based exercises designed to bring calmness and compassion into your day to day.

Matthew Sockolov

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Dial Up the Magic of This Moment: Philosopher Joanna Macy on How Rilke Can Help Us Befriend Our Mortality and Be More Alive

Philosopher Joanna Macy on how Rilke can help us befriend our mortality and be more alive: “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.”

Spiritual Practices for Times of Crisis

The greatest gift we can give our world is our presence, awake and attentive. What can help us do that? Here, drawn from ancient religions and wisdom traditions, are a handful of practices Joanna Macy has learned to count on.

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The Unfolding Now: Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence

In The Unfolding Now, A. H. Almaas presents a marvelously effective practice for developing the transformative quality of presence.

The Presence Process: A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness (Second Edition)

Why is it so difficult to respond consciously when we are upset? Why do we instead resort to hurtful, repetitive, unconscious, reactive behaviors? The reason is that we all have deeply suppressed emotional imprints that are programmed into us through experience and other’s example.

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road.

Frank Ostaseski, Rachel Naomi Remen (foreword)

Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us

If you grew up in struggle―overcoming homophobia, sexism, trauma, shame, depression, poverty, toxic masculinity, racism, or social injustice―you need a different type of meditation . . . one that doesn’t pretend the struggle doesn’t exist.

Justin Michael Williams

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We are so concerned with tomorrow that we forget to enjoy today.

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Polishing the Mirror: How to Live From Your Spiritual Heart

Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening.

Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das

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