Dare To Take One Step

Dare To Take One Step This past summer I signed up for the annual Alpine Marathon in Switzerland. It is actually an ultramarathon of 78km (49 miles), with a challenging 2300m altitude change and a...
26 August 2006
Dare To Take One Step

Countless

Countless It was only a few weeks before the New York Marathon, and I realised that I had not done any serious preparation at all. I did a long run two days in a row, and the next day I wanted to...
26 August 2006
Countless

An Ever-Transcending Goal

An Ever-Transcending Goal In 1985, I became by Guru's grace the first disciple to swim the English Channel. (Another disciple did it one day later, much faster; his pilot had wanted to wait one more...
26 August 2006
An Ever-Transcending Goal

Self-Transcendence Challenges

In my training to cross the English Channel, I decided to swim the length of Zurich Lake—16 miles. The water was very cold, about 59 degrees Fahrenheit. I greased up and swam for one hour, and was...
26 August 2006
Self-Transcendence Challenges

Very Good

"Very Good" Before Aspiration-Ground was built, Guru played tennis on a makeshift tennis court at Jamaica High School. The disciples watched and meditated from the sidelines. One day while Guru was...
26 August 2006
Very Good

Prayer Works

Prayer Works Many years ago, our music group Mountain-Silence was invited to give a concert tour in Hungary. It was wintertime and it was so extremely cold that it was impossible to put up even one...
26 August 2006
Prayer Works

Oneness And Joy

Oneness And Joy After only three months as a disciple, apartment living became unbearably depressing to me. I would gaze out of my 13th story window lovingly at homes in the neighbourhood. Without a...
26 August 2006
Oneness And Joy

Nothing Is Impossible

Nothing Is Impossible In 1995, when Guru wanted to have the great Peace Concert in Prague for 13,000 people, he also said that he wanted a thousand Russian disciples to come to the concert. Somebody...
26 August 2006
Nothing Is Impossible

Love Is My Nest

Love Is My Nest O, Thy Love is my nest. Thy Smile is my rest. Thy Grace is my goal. This poem, hand-written by Guru, is framed and hanging in the vestibule of my "nest". Let me tell you how I came to...
26 August 2006
Love Is My Nest

Grace

Grace I had to go to a walk-in hearing for two $55 parking tickets that I had received after coming to work in New York on the American Millennium Peace Concert for Guru. I was praying to the Supreme...
26 August 2006
Grace

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