Echoes of Stillness

God Lives in the Present Moment

I have a cherished memory from a family campout when I was about twenty. It was a beautiful morning, and […]

A group of Ananda ministers led a program in India based on Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings. It featured uplifting music by

In my last blog post I wrote the words, “Purification comes through deep meditation, selfless service, and self-offering born of

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good.”

In higher consciousness, we discover an answer to every problem that life presents. As we lift our awareness from the

I’m writing these words from the Expanding Light Retreat at Ananda Village in California’s Sierra Nevada Foothills, joined by some

“We all come into this world to be educated and entertained,” Paramhansa Yogananda once observed—then he added with a wry

OM is within, and all around us. It lies at the heart of all things, animate and inanimate. It is

Paramhansa Yogananda said that we cannot stand still on the spiritual path: we are either moving forward or we are

Peace is often one of the first things we experience in meditation. It is one of the eight aspects of