IMPORTANT FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS:
Find one or two photos of yourself as a young child that show your essence or soul quality and bring them to the retreat with you.
ONLINE PARTICIPANTS: Email a picture of your photos to acharyasundari@csecenter.org before the opening session on Friday. Additionally, we will have sessions that include artistic expression. It will be useful to gather the following supplies ahead of time: 3 pieces of art paper or plain white paper and crayons, colored markers, or colored pencils. If you don't have any of these you can use a pencil and/or pen. Keep it simple. The artistic expression part will be private.
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RETREAT SCHEDULE (U.S. Pacific Time)
** CLICK SESSION TITLE BELOW TO VIEW RECORDING **| FRIDAY (2/2/24) |
6:30-8:00 PM
| | OPENING SESSION (IN-PERSON & ONLINE)
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SATURDAY (2/3/24) |
6:30-7:30 AM
8:00 AM
9:30-11:30 AM
11:30 AM
1:00-3:00 PM
3:00 PM
4:00-4:30 PM
5:30 PM
6:30-8:00 PM | | GROUP MEDITATION (ONLINE ONLY)
Breakfast
MORNING SESSION (IN-PERSON & ONLINE)
Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION (IN-PERSON & ONLINE)
Break
GROUP MEDITATION (ONLINE ONLY)
Dinner
EVENING SESSION (IN-PERSON & ONLINE)
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SUNDAY (2/4/24) |
6:30-7:30 AM
8:00 AM
10:00-11:30 PM
11:30 AM
12:30-2:30 PM
| | GROUP MEDITATION (ONLINE ONLY)
Breakfast
COMMUNITY SATSANG (IN-PERSON & ONLINE)
Lunch
CLOSING SESSION (IN-PERSON & ONLINE)
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Inspirational Quotes
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way;
do something that nobody else has done,
something that will dazzle the world.
Show that God 's creative principle works in you.
—Paramahansa Yogananda
If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you.
—Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
Divine power within us is always ready to set us free,
ready to lift us to a higher way of living.
We need only trust it and cooperate with it.
—Yogacharya O'Brian
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
—Rumi
It is the sacred duty of every individual human soul
to be utterly and completely itself—to be “that” jewel (Indra’s Net) …
to be “that” jewel at “that” time and in “that” place, to be that jewel utterly.
It is in this way—merely by being itself—that one jewel holds together
its own particular corner of space and time. The action of each individual soul holds together the entire net. Small and large at the same time.
—Stephen Cope
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
—Rumi
Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive.
Because what the world needs is people that have come alive.
—Howard Thurman
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