Friends of the Heart January 2008

We invite you to enjoy the January issue of Friends of the Heart which is a monthly publication offering articles on non-duality by authors, musicians, artists and poets. This issue includes "Adoration" by Katie Davis, Presales of Awake Joy by Katie Davis and Free Spirit by Sundance Burke, "Only the Self is Love" by Sundance Burke, information about event registration for events in Dallas, Sedona, Flagstaff, Boulder, Richmond Hill, Toronto and Chicago, "Loss, Grief, and Grace" by Meredith Young-Sowers, author of Spirit Heals, Heart of Life E-book by Katie Davis, and "A Way of Communicating the Sense of Nonduality" by Jerry Katz, editor of One.

We have also added a Contributor's Directory underneath the newsletter on the same page so that you may more conveniently find and enjoy all of the submissions by authors who have shared their wisdom with Friends of the Heart over the years.

Awake Joy & Free Spirit Presales Open

Presales are open for Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment by Katie Davis and Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being by Sundance Burke. Both books are hardbound, each with 224 pages, and they each have a retail price of $22.95.

Until February 1, we are offering a 20% discount on each book which saves $4.59 per book. In addition, we are also offering a Togetherness Presale Discount for those who would like both books. The Togetherness Discount is 30%, saving $13.77, plus two books ship for the price of one.

Awake Joy and Free Spirit will ship February 1. The presale discounts apply until February 1.

Click the following links to enjoy Awake Joy: Summary, Contents, Reviews, Author Biography, Purchase.

For Free Spirit, please click: Summary, Contents, Reviews, Author Biography, Purchase.

We hope that you enjoy them and that they point to awakening and Self-discovery. They truly were a joy to create.

Awakening by Sundance Burke

What is this Awakening? Everyone assumes and also thinks that they are someone, meaning a person. Well, you are not a person, because a person is just an experience. Your experience of being a person comes and goes and does not even last for 24 hours. You also experience the world and your family, friends and neighbors and they do not last either. You forget all this every night. And when all this disappears, you also disappear because this "you" is like everything else, it's just experience.

No experience is the awakening. This is completely true. The awakening has nothing to do with experience, so there's no point to seeking one. Whatever you experience can never be what being awake is. And No Experience is the awakening, that which underlies all that happens. As you are not found in any experience, you are no-thing at all, but you are. I AM is this Being. However, you cannot improve this Being by adding to it, because all you could add is not what you are. So do not try to add anything and do not try at all; one way or another.

Awakening is just being free and clear, not from something like experience, but as What Is. Nothing Is, Being happens. Be clear, this is Awakening. Blessings Sundance

Flagstaff Satsang, JOY Right NOW

Registration for Sundance and Katie's satsang and satsang intensive is now open. First, they will be speaking at the Flagstaff Religious Science Church at the Sunday morning services at 10:00 am on January 27 with music by Tom and Shondra and no registration is required. There is an optional love offering to the Church. Then, on Friday, February 1, they begin a two day event in Flagstaff entitled JOY Right NOW. Satsang will be Friday evening with a satsang intensive on Saturday, February 2. You may register for a single event or for a special two day pass. The donation is reduced through registration, but you may also donate at the door.

Those attending the Sedona Satsang at the Sedona Creative Life Center in the Chapel on January 26 also have the option of registering for a two day pass that includes Satsang in Sedona as well as the Saturday JOY Right NOW Satsang Intensive at the Flagstaff Religious Science Church on Saturday, February 2.

Our sponsor for all of our events in Arizona is Richard Sink of Video Satsang, who regularly offers video satsang with Gangaji and Eckhart Tolle at the Spiritual Life Center in Flagstaff.

To register for the Flagstaff events, please go to Flagstaff Religious Science Church. To register for Satsang in Sedona, go to Schedule and Registration. You may also donate for all of the events at the door. For more information about the Arizona events or to view Sundance and Katie's Schedule for 2008, go the Sundance and Katie.

We invite you to awaken!