How Hot Is Your Anger? Cool Yourself Off!
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Do you get so angry that you feel like a fire-breathing dragon?
7 Ways to Find Inner (and Real) Happiness
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Happiness is one of the most misunderstood words in our vocabulary, yet we search for this intangible state our whole lives.
Awaken Interviews Ed and Deb Shapiro Pt 3 – Be In the World, But Not Of It
Donna Quesada: Well, with both of you starting on your spiritual paths at such a young age…
Disliking Someone = Disliking Yourself
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: When we don’t like someone, the feeling sticks to us like glue. We get hooked, thoughts of the person come thick and fast,
Awaken Interviews Ed and Deb Shapiro Pt 2 – Awakening Is the Evolution of Consciousness
Donna Quesada: And that is one of my favorite books that you two co-wrote together: The Unexpected Power of Mindfulness and Meditation.
Eulogy and Celebration for Ed Shapiro
Dearest… Ed passed away last Sunday at 3pm. I am so happy he is free!
Awaken Interviews Ed & Deb Shapiro Pt 1 – We Are Not The Movie – We Are the Blank Screen and the Observer
Donna Quesada: Well, Ed and Deb Shapiro… Welcome! And it is just wonderful to see you again, especially during this festive holiday season.
Does It Ever Pay to Be Angry?
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: No one can really enjoy getting angry. It’s like drinking poison or being stuck in glue — it can arise out of nowhere and often outstays its welcome.
The Coolest Meditator in the World
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: He turned 78 last Saturday and still says he meditates for three hours every day, starting at 4 a.m.
What Buddha Might Say to Bill Gates
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Bill Gates is a rare breed. He defies what most billionaires appear to be:
If You Can’t Forgive, You Can’t Dance
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Think of a person who’s wronged you—maybe it’s even yourself.
Meditate Your Way Through Anger
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Anger can be an effective expression of passion for justice and fairness, for basic rightness, for what is appropriate and humane.
Is Meditation Your Friend or Your Enemy?
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Between balancing work and your personal life, it may seem like you don’t have time to try anything new.
Making Friends With Your Fear
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: What is your greatest fear? Ed’s mother died when he was only five days old. How does a child grow up without the fear of losing loved ones?
Can You Be Enlightened and Neurotic at the Same Time?
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: The purpose of most spiritual teachings is to reach enlightenment, a state of pure awareness and inner joy.
Your Past Need Not Become Your Future – Ed and Deb Shapiro
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: No matter how hard we want to, there’s one thing we can never do, and that’s change the past.
Meditation Awakens Your Inner Joy
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: While in Greece we were invited to a local village dance.
Find Your Peace in the Midst of Chaos
by By Ed and Deb Shapiro: Have you ever been in stuck in traffic on a busy street and felt like it was just too much or caught up in an argument that was going nowhere?
Is Your Mind Like a Drunken Monkey? How Meditation Can Calm Your Mind
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Have you ever felt as if your mind was driving you crazy? Does the ch:atter in your head go on endlessly?
Today’s Thoughts Are Tomorrow’s History
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Quite often we put too much importance on our thoughts and take them so seriously that they can lead us into all kinds of emotional turmoil.
Changing the World From the Inside Out
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Why do people mistreat each other? After the shooting at Sandy Hook, the response of the NRA was that every schoolteacher should be armed.
Let’s Make Compassion Fashionable
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: If we genuinely want to end hatred, bigotry, racism and abuse, if we genuinely want to bring real change to the world, then there is only one place to begin.
Wherever You Are – There You Are
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: It is one of life’s greatest ironies that no matter how much we want to be different,
Are You Here And Now? If Not, Where?
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: Do you live in your head? In your body? In your emotions? In your desires?