Enlightenment Journal

Spiritually Conscious Living in  

an Awakened World

Summer 2012

Published quarterly by: 

Center for Spiritual  

Enlightenment (CSE) 

1146 University Avenue 

San José, CA 95126

Annual subscription rate:  

$20 US, $25 all other countries

To SubScribE 

Write: 

CSE, Attn: Enlightenment Journal 

at the above address 

Call: 

(408) 283-0221 

FAX: 

(408) 283-1722 

Email:  

EnlightenmentJournal@CSEcenter.org

 

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Enlightenment Journal is published  

by CSE to provide teachings, 

inspiration and practical support  

for seekers of Self- and God-realization. 

Our motto: “Everyday, enlightenment,” 

affirms the certain destiny  

of all people to realize their essential 

nature, express their innate potential 

and live joyously in freedom. 

FOUndEr & EditOr 

Ellen Grace O'Brian

EditOriAL StAFF 

Sundari Jensen  

Parthenia Hicks 

nancy Gardner 

Beverly Kam 

Sumathi Lingappa 

Mary Lynn 

Art And dESiGn StAFF 

Clarice Hirata 

tom Pipinou  

nalini Shenefelt  

Marcella Shanti Macartney

PRACTICE

12  

Hatha Yoga: Open to Life

  

 

  How to balance the heat of summer

18  

Healthy Living: Honor the Body Temple

 

  Recipe: A protein-packed summer  

  salad—perfect for a picnic

28  

Lighting the Path for Children

   

  Parents are their children’s first teachers

INSPIRATION

20  

Questions & Answers on the Path  

  

Insights into meditation practice

23  

Living Kriya Yoga  

 

 

The power of practice

32  

Poetry   

  

O Friend, Understand

AT THE CENTER

11  

Live the Eternal Way Class 

24  

The Yoga Hour 

30  

CSE Press

Life is meant to be lived  

from a Center, a divine Center.  

Each one of us can live such a life  

of amazing power and peace and serenity,  

of integration and confidence  

and simplified multiplicity,  

on one condition— 

that is, if we really want to.

—Thomas Kelly