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Sep 12, 2024 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Asheville TM Center • 165 East Chestnut Street
Meditate Asheville / Meditate America: Join us in-person or online
Be part of something positively huge! Attend this inspiring event that has the potential to transform our community and the entire country. This is a time of great need—and a time of great openness and opportunity for bringing meditation to more people and promoting a healthier, more harmonious society.
Join us for a short group meditation (7:30 PM) and viewing of the Meditate America live stream from Lincoln Center in New…
Be part of something positively huge! Attend this inspiring event that has the potential to transform our community and the entire country. This is a time of great need—and a time of great openness and opportunity for bringing meditation to more people and promoting a healthier, more harmonious society.
Join us for a short group meditation (7:30 PM) and viewing of the Meditate America live stream from Lincoln Center in New…
Oct 25, 2024 at 5:00pm to Oct 27, 2024 at 11:30am
Quietude (1130 Montreat Road, Black Mountain)
"A Sacred Hug" an Invitation to Embody Presence with Alaya &a Corrine October 2 - October 6, 2024
We welcome you to join us for this very special offering of mind, body and spirit, a four-night silent retreat with Alaya and Corrine of silence, meditation, Satsang and Presence Yoga. Everything is already here for awakening in our ordinary day to day lives and retreat can gently point us to what is already here and present within each of us. About the Retreat Within the…
We welcome you to join us for this very special offering of mind, body and spirit, a four-night silent retreat with Alaya and Corrine of silence, meditation, Satsang and Presence Yoga. Everything is already here for awakening in our ordinary day to day lives and retreat can gently point us to what is already here and present within each of us. About the Retreat Within the…
Oct 4, 2024 at 6:00pm to Oct 6, 2024 at 3:00pm
Quietude (1130 Montreat Road, Black Mountain)
Sep 8, 2024 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm
First Congregational Church, 20 Oak Street, Asheville
Aug 15, 2024 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm
WellSpring Wellness Center 960 Tunnel Rd Asheville
I have not written anything since publishing my second book a year ago, but not long after publication I encountered a message that seems to have taken "my" apparent journey and leveled it. It's not a popular message and certainly not a message I would have chosen to resonate with, but there was apparently a readiness…
Are You In A Spiritual Emergency? Could this be a natural and welcome process of spiritual emergence? How can you know the difference?
Read more: https://amindfulemergence.com/blog/are-you-in-a-spiritual-emergency/
On the day of the takeover of the Capitol, I stopped to chat with my neighbor, who filled me in on what was happening. He asked me to say a prayer for our country, which I later did. It went a little something like this, “May we all find the peace that we seek and share that peace with the world.” Today, while reflecting on the recent events at the Capitol and the drama that continues to ensue, the impulse to write arose and here is the result:
There Was a…
When asked to summarize his teachings in one word, Ramana Maharshi said, “Attention.” That struck home in a deeper way the most recent time I heard it. I thought he would have said, “Silence,” because that what his preferred method of teaching. But his answer makes perfect sense. His teachings on Self-inquiry are all about directing attention from the world of thoughts and objects to the source of attention. Attention has been described as focused Awareness and is the “tool” (if we can call…
