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		<title>Why Religion is Divisive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion is all too often a source of conflict, division, and judgment between the adherents of different faiths. It doesn&#8217;t help that religion is inextricably linked with cultural and national identifies with their numerous biases, prejudices, language, dress, and traditions. It is experienced spirituality that unites hearts. And not the superficial spirituality born of intellectual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swami Kriyananda Moves to Los Angeles!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over fifty Ananda members from the Seattle Sangha have just returned from our journey to Ananda Village, CA for the annual week of Spiritual Renewal with Swami Kriyananda. It was a week of fellowship, inspiration, meditation, sunshine, cooling breezes, delicious meals, starlit skies and so much more. On Saturday, Cliff and Willow Kushler invited us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation Habits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Nivritti Steenstra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habit can be a powerful ally if you have developed the right ones. Conversely, as you also know, they can sabotage your most earnest efforts. So it would seem like a worthwhile use of your time, to reflect on those habits that both help and hinder a good meditation. As Yogananda told us, &#8220;You can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ananda Community CSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Rider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, with the encouragement of friends from Ananda Village, we have started a CSA at the Ananda Community in Lynnwood. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an increasingly popular method for people to support organic local farmers by paying a lump sum up front for a weekly box of vegetables throughout the growing season. Thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Redeeming Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Padma McGilloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paramhansa Yogananda describes how, as a child, he was healed of Asiatic cholera (which is usually fatal) in a blinding flash of light after his mother instructed him to pray to her guru, Lahiri Mahasaya. Albert Einstein, as a young man, was fascinated with the phenomenon of light. His discovery showed that the speed of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Jesus Come Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paramhansa Yogananda, author of the world renown classic, &#8220;Autobiography of a Yogi,&#8221; spoke and wrote frequently in respect to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Many of his students and followers have wondered why he did so, especially in light of his emphasis upon respect for and the need to seek a deeper understanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Ananda?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What IS Ananda? Ananda is more than a teaching center for meditation or yoga. Ananda is different things to different people. Most of all, at Ananda we aspire to see that people are more important than things: even so-called “important” things like the classes we give, the projects we undertake, the services we offer, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God is Coming To Dinner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jamuna Snitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a folktale called “God Is Coming To Dinner?’ One day, a lady receives in the mail a letter that states,  “Please prepare a meal for me tonight. I will be coming to your house for dinner. Love, God” She was poor and lived frugally, so this was a big request. Her heart and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret of Right Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ananda Seattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creation is our Mother in the form of nature. God, through the power of intelligent vibration, has created and sustains the universe, and is seated at the still heart of all flux. In celebrating Mother&#8217;s Day, let us include God as Mother, housekeeper of creation. The Bible tells us that God gazed upon His creation and called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How High Should We Aspire?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This topic is based on a reading from the book by Swami Kriyananda, Rays of the Same Light. (We use these readings at the Ananda Sunday Services around the world.) This particular reading begins with Jesus Christ counseling his disciples that their spirituality ought to be something greater than that of his (self-styled) enemies, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deeds vs Intentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Susan McGinnis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Sunday Service talk by Nayaswami Susan McGinnis, at Ananda Meditation Temple in Bothell. As spiritual seekers, we are engaged in affirming our Oneness with all life. Our daily meditation is one way in which we do this, but much of our time is not spent in meditation.  What we do, and even more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s now or never!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Nivritti Steenstra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes (and sometimes a lot!) on the spiritual path, we experience times when we struggle with our meditation practice. This is not new to most of us who have been meditating for a while. During these times we need to do whatever we can to keep ourselves motivated and inspired. Make this a conscious choice. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Thinking Can We Arrive at Understanding?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Jamuna Snitkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: this is a summary of Jamuna’s talk at Sunday Service on February 28, 2010.) In today’s readings we hear that Jesus scolded the Pharisees for their complaint that His disciples did not wash their hands before eating. Jesus admonishes them for honoring only the letter of the law while missing the spirit. Consciousness, He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Know God!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nayaswami Hriman McGilloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have inherited a medieval mindset when we unthinkingly relegate “God” to some distant universe of indifference or even some unfathomably vast distance from our own daily life and concerns. Yet the life and teachings of God-realized saints and masters are vibrant testimonies to God’s being our closest, and our nearest and dearest friend. God, [...]]]></description>
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