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December 31, 2010
 
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Greetings and Namaste!

Thank you for your generous support and kind words of care and encouragement throughout the past year. You all have such loving hearts. There are a couple of thousand or more people receiving this e-newsletter, from Australia and New Zealand to Germany and Norway! There's a web of Light connecting all beings and those threads shine all the more brightly between the loving hearts of those who have chosen to know and to serve the highest.

May the blessings of all the holy ones,
saints and sages,
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas,
Devis and Dakinis,
and the ineffable Source from which all blessings flow
be upon you and your loved ones
for a joyous, healthy and peaceful New Year!

 Mahadeviyakka
 12th century bhakti yogini. Lord Shiva was her Jasmine White Lord

Women in Prais of the Sacred







A vein of sapphires
hides in the earth,
a sweetness in fruit;

and in plain-looking rock
lies a golden ore,
and in seeds,
the treasure of oil.

Like these
the Infinite
rests concealed in the heart.

No one can see the ways
of our jasmine-white Lord.

From Women in Praise of the Sacred
Jane Hirshfield, ed. p. 81


 


 David Whyte
 Self-Portrait

River Flow book










It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned,
if you can know despair or see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes,
saying this is where I stand. I want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living,
falling toward
the center of your longing. I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.

I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even
the gods speak of God.

From River Flow: New and Selected Poems 1984-2007 by David Whyte. p. 347


 


 Program Announcement
 Anam Cara Foundation, Bedford, NY

Meditation Program Suspended until after the holidays The meditation groups led by Tom O'Keefe and Carmela Deluca are temporarily suspended. An informal gathering for meditation will continue. Please e-mail me at [email protected] for details.
Check the Anam Cara Foundation website for new program additions.


For more information please visit our Events page (click here) 


 Important News
 

Lawrence Edwards, Ph.D., the founder and director of The Anam Cara Foundation, has moved to Cincinnati. A new location for Anam Cara programs will be opening in Cincinnati, adding to the programs offered in New York.
Lawrence will be returning to the New York area regularly in 2011 to continue supporting the work of the Anam Cara Foundation community there as well.


 


Thank you all for your notes of appreciation for our newsletter.

Everyone has the heart to be a true friend of the soul, an Anam Cara. By embodying that ideal ourselves we may serve to help another to find love and compassion within themselves.

Our highest nature is always manifest in relationship - to all other beings, to the environment, in relation to our own body and mind. Becoming mindful of the quality of our relationships allows us to learn where the light shines and where it needs to shine more. The ideal of Anam Cara is to continuously endeavor to expand the depth and the inclusiveness of the loving kindness we bring into every relationship, every moment, every breath.

If you have any suggestions, comments or sharings, for our newsletter please don't hesitate to e-mail me and I'll do my best to respond.

The Anam Cara Foundation is a 501 (C) 3, non-profit educational organization dedicated to teaching meditative practices. Our non- denominational programs are open to all. There are free meditation instructions and downloadable audio files of guided meditations on the meditation page of our
website.

Thank you for the many ways you have shown support for The Anam Cara Foundation. Because of your gifts we can offer free programs and instruction to thousands of people. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation please send it to address listed below or go to our website where you can make a secure online donation. Click HERE. That link will also bring you to our links with Sounds True and purchasing gifts and products from them will help support The Anam Cara Foundation.

I look forward to welcoming you in person to our programs once the back injury I've sustained allows me to travel and offer programs once again.

With all my appreciation and love,
I thank you all.

May all beings realize complete freedom from suffering and may all our actions reflect only wisdom, compassion, patience and love.

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Lawrence Edwards, Ph.D.
Founder and Director
The Anam Cara Foundation

Lawrence on the Isle of Iona, Scotland
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