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Gabriel Gonsalves's weekly inspiration, practical advice and spiritual wisdom for living wholeheartedly.
Read this on GabrielGonsalves.com Dear Reader, Have you ever wondered why it is often easier to meditate with a group of people than alone? Why stillness comes sooner, why you drop deeper, and why the experience can feel more profound than the same practice by yourself on your living room floor? Something is happening in that room beyond posture or technique. When two or more people gather with a shared, sincere intention, forces begin to move between them. Jesus pointed toward this when he...
Read this on GabrielGonsalves.com Dear Reader, This past Wednesday, I opened our Sacred Heart Meditation Circle, part of the Heart Mastery Community, by singing a new song I received this week. The song is called “The Sacred Way,” and it’s about returning to the spiritual heart. Throughout the performance, my knees were shaking, and my voice cracked more than once. You’d think that after years of singing in ceremonies and circles, there would be no shaking left in me by now. No cracking...
Read this on GabrielGonsalves.com Dear Reader, Dolly Parton died earlier this week. She had just turned eighty after a short fight with cancer, the same kind of short, sudden fight my sister and my mother each had with cancer of their own. The news landed hard even on people who never owned one of her records or could hum one of her songs. What stayed with me wasn’t the headline. It was learning what she’d actually given her life to: the foundation she built, and more than that, the care she...