SATSANG

2.  STEPS TO INNER PEACE
by Swami Amar Jyoti
To make our peace dependent upon anything is missing the peace. Practicing virtues lightens the ego and removes blocks to finding our peace within.

FEATURES

10.  SACRED: IN SEARCH OF MEANING
Text and photographs by Chris Rainier
My life has been and remains committed to recording and celebrating these wonders on film as reminders of the past to future generations still unborn—as postcards to the future.

16.  RECOGNIZING THE CONDITIONED MIND
by Caverly Morgan
It takes courage to go up against personal conditioning. It also takes courage to go up against collective conditioning.

20.  NOW IS THE HOUR OF HER RETURN
by Clark Strand
These poems celebrate the Return of the Mother in both Her tender and terrible aspects, for She is both of these at once.

24.  911 FROM YOUR SOUL
by Jeanine Thompson
For each of us, there will come a time when our Soul longs to birth something for us and through us. When we ignore the call, it doesn’t go away; it gets louder.

26.  THURSDAYS IN JAIL
by Tina Welling
I came fortified with a two-inch-thick file of journaling exercises and quotes that encouraged interest in looking inward. I told the inmates—most always men, only occasionally women—that this was where freedom was found.

31.  HELPING OTHERS WITH DEATH AND DYING
by Pema Chödrön
Whatever your beliefs are, the overall idea is to be sensitive that the person is going through a major transition… to be open and present with whatever arises.