Weekly Reading

Only as a spiritual warrior can one withstand the path of
knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything.
His life is an endless challenge and challenges cannot
possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior
is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an
ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
- Don Juan

Weekly Reading

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
~ Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet/Saint

Weekly Reading

Care

Spirit takes care of
all that concerns me.
All situations in my life
resolve themselves.
Spirit knows the way
Spirit knows the solution.
I give up all worry to spirit's keeping.
I have the assurance
of answered prayer.
Spirit does not fail me
or forsake me.
I am relaxed
and anxiety free.
~Gabriel Halpern

Weekly Reading

If the philosopher is right
If the philosopher is right,
that all we are
and all the earth around us
is only a dream,

even if a bright, long dream-
that even is nothing
but what sits in the mind,

that the trees, that the red bird
are all in the mind,
and the river, and the sea in storm
are all in the mind,

that nothing exists fierce or soft or apt to be
truly shaken-
nothing tense, wild sleepy-nothing
likes Yeats' girl with the yellow hair-
then you too are a dream

which last night and the night before that
and the years before that
you were not.
~Mary Oliver

Weekly Reading-Chant

Kaayena Vacha Manasendriyar Va
Buddhyatmanava Prakriteh swabhaavat
Karomi Yadyat sakalam Parasmai
Narayanayeti Samarpayami

Whatever actions I may perform
Impelled by the forces of nature
By body, word, mind, senses, intellect, soul,
I offer to the feet of Narayana (direction of a human)-the one that helps a human to his/her goal, i.e. towards moksha or liberation.