Monday Morning Meditation for the week of Aug. 23/10

What is Mine to Do?

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. The message of this meditation is that when we have things in our lives that we wish to change, we must seek guidance as to what is ours to do to effect that change. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of Aug. 9/10

People of the Light: Winter Solstice Meditation

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. This meditation celebrates the Winter Solstice and the Festival of Light. All of the world’s sacred traditions feature celebrations of the Light at this time of year, whether it be the Christian Christmas, the Jewish Hanukkah, the Hindu Dewali or any of many others. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of July 26/10

I Am in the Realm of the Infinite

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. The focus of this meditation is on learning to stay in the question. Once we know that we are in the realm of the Infinite, we can develop the skill and patience to know what questions to ask and how to listen for their answers. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of July 12/10

Blessings in Disguise

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. This meditation focuses on gratitude, both for the things we see as blessings in our lives and, equally importantly, for those gifts that look more like challenges or problems. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of June 28/10

Giving the Gift of Love

“When I need solitude, I turn off the phone and fax and sit until my breath comes slow and gentle, and I am able to enter into the sanctuary that always awaits me at the center of my being.” ~Sam keen, Hymns to an Unknown God

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. In this meditation, you are guided to visualize the process of claiming a symbol of Love and then giving that love to another as a priceless gift that can stimulate the inner peace without which world peace is impossible. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of June 14/10

Basking in the Light of Joy and Hope

“The intensity of desire gives one the power to return, day after day, to the ‘hot-seat’ of sitting still.” ~Edward Hays, Secular Sanctity

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. This meditation will help you visualize the bright light that comes into the darkness of life when we allow ourselves to feel the joy and hope that are always all around us. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of May 31/10

Crisis Becomes Opportunity

“It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.” ~Thomas Merton

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. In your personal life, just as in national and world life, we often encounter opportunities disguised as crises. This meditation gives us visual technique for seeing those opportunities rightly. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of May 17/10

Embracing Those Who Are Difficult to Love

“Adoration is nothing less than the oxygen of survival. The happiest life of all is one which is burning away consciously in the fire of divine love and devotion.” ~Modern-day mystic Andrew Harvey

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. This meditation helps us realize and internalize the truth that while it is always easy to love those who love us, it is no less important — indeed, perhaps moreso — that we allow ourselves to love those who are difficult to love. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of Apr. 26/10

Shift Into a Miracle

“Neither agitated by grief nor hankering after pleasure, [the wise] live free from lust and fear and anger. Established in meditation, they are truly wise.” ~Bhagavad Gita 2.54-61

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. The focal point of this meditation is learning to shift from ordinary thinking to Miracle Thinking. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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Monday Morning Meditation for the week of Apr. 19/10

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.~Mahatma Gandhi

The following is a guided meditation by Dan Shafer designed to help you reach a more peaceful inner experience which is one of the keys to achieving peace in the world outside yourself. We recommend that you find a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for a few minutes, relax, and then just listen to the meditation, which includes a few moments of silence to allow for your own personal inner reflection on its message.

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