2025 UPCOMING EVENTS
WINTER 2025
Join Amita for an exploration into the unbounded ground of being through love.
Some questions to ask yourself are:
- How were you raised to think about the world, and your place in the world?
- Did you have a religious background, if so, how was the world depicted?
- Are your self judgements like your judgements of the world?
"Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states." Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Buddhism teaches that everything is interconnected so loving the world means loving all beings and the environment.
"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. "Joseph Cambell
"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it."
Henri J.M. Nouwen
"Love for oneself does not mean the self-centered love of the ego. It means to love life."
Sri Mato Amritanandamayi Devi
"Love is the bridge between you and everything"
Rumi
"If the deepest ground of my being is love, then in that very love and nowhere else will I find myself, the world, and my brother and my sister in Christ"
Thomas Merton, Choosing to Love the World
"Come out of your temples and your places of safe keeping. Open your eyes to your neighborhoods and your streets. See them as the grounds around your shrines and your cathedrals. Our world community is our sacred space, place your candles and your incense on the maps of the world. Sing your prayers to all our children's children."
- Amita, You Long For Me
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Saturdays, 9 to 11:30am Zoom, recorded.
January 25th
February 22nd
March 22th.
- How were you raised to think about the world, and your place in the world?
- Did you have a religious background, if so, how was the world depicted?
- Are your self judgements like your judgements of the world?
"Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states." Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Buddhism teaches that everything is interconnected so loving the world means loving all beings and the environment.
"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. "Joseph Cambell
"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it."
Henri J.M. Nouwen
"Love for oneself does not mean the self-centered love of the ego. It means to love life."
Sri Mato Amritanandamayi Devi
"Love is the bridge between you and everything"
Rumi
"If the deepest ground of my being is love, then in that very love and nowhere else will I find myself, the world, and my brother and my sister in Christ"
Thomas Merton, Choosing to Love the World
"Come out of your temples and your places of safe keeping. Open your eyes to your neighborhoods and your streets. See them as the grounds around your shrines and your cathedrals. Our world community is our sacred space, place your candles and your incense on the maps of the world. Sing your prayers to all our children's children."
- Amita, You Long For Me
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Saturdays, 9 to 11:30am Zoom, recorded.
January 25th
February 22nd
March 22th.
Southern Turkey and ISTANBUL
Dates and locations to be announced