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Book Excerpts
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What is Always Here
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from The Diamond in Your Pocket
Storytelling is a wondrous aspect of human existence. It is used to address the whole spectrum of the human drama. It can teach, entertain, seduce, empower, and terrify. more...
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Articles
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What can we learn by not speaking?
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Originally appeared on the Huffington Post - July 21, 2009
Language is one of the most thrilling powers of being human. It is day-to-day practical as well as exultant in its heights. We can all benefit from learning and discovering how to use language more clearly. As fellow human beings, it is intelligent to learn each other's language. It brings us closer together as cultures and as individuals. more...
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When the heart breaks open
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Originally appeared on the Huffington Post - August 4, 2009
As human animals we naturally avoid sources of pain. All animals do, as whatever causes pain could threaten survival itself. In that very practical sense, sensing pain is a signal to move away from something. Fire burns, burns hurt, fire can kill you. more...
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Letting the World into your heart
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Someone asked me recently about the connection between spiritual awakening and the actual state of the world. I don’t see any disconnection there. The root of political and social activism is freedom, and the root of spiritual awakening is freedom. more...
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The Call to Freedom
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Originally appeared on the Huffington Post - July 7, 2009
I recently visited the lively, beautiful city of Berlin. It was my first visit, and I brought with the visit what the word "Berlin" has meant to me. In my mind Berlin is a city that has lived at the center of extremes. more...
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Where is Sacred Space?
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Originally appeared on the Huffingon Post - June 30, 2009
In 1994 I was invited to speak to a group of men incarcerated at Englewood Federal Prison, Colorado.
They were a group of men who had been part of a meditation and discussion group, and their leader had attended some of the meetings I was holding in nearby Boulder. more...
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Meeting Excerpts
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Our thoughts lead us away from what we are here to experience
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From the With Gangaji Conference Series, Recorded June 27, 2010
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Taking the Spiritual Bypass
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San Rafael, California ~ Weekend, Nov 7, 2009:
I am inviting you to stop imagining what it is you need to get fixed, or what obstacle you need to get rid of, or how you need to get deeper, or how you need to be awake a hundred percent of the time. more...
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My Intention
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Mount Shasta, California ~ Public Meeting, May 17, 2009:
Hello Everyone. It is beautiful to meet with you here, at the foot of this extraordinary sacred life form, Mt. Shasta. more...
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Searching, Claiming, Denying (and Other Pastimes)
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Sydney, Australia ~ Public Meeting - November 19, 2005:
There is what I call "an essential experience", a moment in which there is a shift in consciousness. more...
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After Realization: How These Lives are Lived
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Silver Bay, New York ~ Silent Retreat - September 20, 2005:
Hello everyone. I would like to read this letter that I received, because it touches on a version of a question a lot of people have. more...
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Nectar of Telling the Truth
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Silver Bay, New York ~ Silent Retreat - September 19, 2005:
While in Germany earlier this year, I was speaking about something that happened in my past, and this man said to me, "Yeah, but you did the best you could." more...
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Dare You Rest?
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Yosemite, California ~ Silent Retreat - May 2, 2005:
In our western culture, and especially in the United States, there is a huge drive to stay busy, to conquer, to get more: more territory, more stuff, more experiences. We all have this drive; it comes with the territory.
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States of Awareness
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Silver Bay, New York ~ Retreat - September 25, 2003:
Questioner: Gangaji, I have a question.
Gangaji: (Laughter) You also have the answer. (Laughter) So, why don't you give the answer first, and the question second? more...
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