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Elaine Claire Siegfried
The Healthy Monks of Mt. Athos
On a remote peninsula in Northern Greece, eight hundred feet above the Aegean Sea, sits a dramatic looking monastery. It is only one of...
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Elaine Claire Siegfried
Letting Go Of Mental Burdens
A few years ago I visited Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, located on the leeward side of the island. Founded in 1970, it is a traditional...
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Elaine Claire Siegfried
Balance Through Reverence and Ritual
In his Introduction to Thich Nhat Hanh’s book The Energy of Prayer, Dr. Larry Dossey says that prayer is once again returning to...
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Elaine Claire Siegfried
Art: A Bridge to the Eternal
In 1867 Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian writer and philosopher, diverts his travels while in Switzerland to see a painting he had heard...
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Elaine Claire Siegfried
Empty Yourself So That You May Be Filled.
When I first started trying to understand meditation, the concept of emptying was often front and center. In one way or another, I...
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Elaine Claire Siegfried
Prayer As Medicine
When referring to the first line of the Lord’s Prayer “Our Father who art in Heaven” Charles Allen author of God’s Psychiatry and a...
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Elaine Claire Siegfried
One With the Wind
One morning, many years ago, I spent the early hours reading one of the many translations of Taoism's primary Scripture of the Way, the...
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