Harmony House This week!

WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK AT HARMONY HOUSE

English Seminar  “When the Honeymoon Comes to the End” by Aruna Ladva  Sat, 21st Sept | 7:30pm t0 9:00pm We are in seventh heaven during the honeymoon period of the start of anything new,from a relationship to relocation of city or country, to a company inauguration but what happens  when that joy, excitement and enthusiasm fizzles away?  How can we cope? And  furthermore, how can we ensure that the honeymoon never ends. Join us this week for an insightful seminar with Aruna Ladva.  New Meditation Course in Arabic Starting on Mon 23rd Sept from 7:30 to 9:00pm and continues on Tues 24th Sept, Mon 30th  , Tues 1st Oct, Mon 7th Oct and Tues 8th Oct from 7:00 – 8:30pm.                                                  Please register by emailing your name, contact number and state “Arabic Meditation Course” to harmonyhousemeditationcentre@gmail.com New Meditation Course in English Starting on Mon 23rd Sept from 7:30 to 9:00pm and continues on Tues 24th Sept, Mon 30th  Tues 1st Oct, Mon 7th Oct and Tues 8th Oct from 7:00 – 8:30pm. Please register by emailing  your name, contact number and state “English Meditation  Course” to harmonyhousemeditationcentre@gmail.com Sunday 22nd September, 7:00pm – 8:00pm Evening Meditation Hour   All programs, unless specified are held at Harmony House, Kuwait: Harmony House Meditation Centre Villa 3, Block 5  Shaheen Al Ghanim Street Shara 59 Rumaithiya, Kuwait  T: +965-2565 4062 E: harmonyhousemeditationcentre@gmail.com

Renaissance

After centuries of false notions, the ideal of human power and potentiality was reborn in a period known as the renaissance.  Beginning in the 14th century in Italy and spreading throughout most of Europe, this dramatic transformation in the world of art, literature and science spilled into all areas of life and signified a shift in human thinking. The world was no  longer flat, and men and women broadened their thinking and explored new ideas as they began to throw off the chains of the past attitudes. As we reflect on world history we know that periods of renaissance (literally ‘re-birth’) were  essentially periods wherein thought, aspiration and expression broke the old molds of being. Fast-forward to the present day, and the ‘Information Age’ has placed at our fingertips the  ability to find out what is happening anywhere in the world.  At the click of a mouse we  can discover how to bake a cake or assemble a car; we have ready access to the complex  theories of the greatest scholars, to those of new thinkers.  We can uncover the history and meaning of words (or apparently even the meaning of life!). The Internet provides us with everything imaginable and in every form possible. But in this WEB of information we are yet to find our OWN truth and, further, find the time  to live it!  During the time of the Renaissance, individuals with a medieval mind-set were left behind.  Now in the Information and Communication Age, ‘medieval’ thinkers are threatened with extinction. And so after many generations of knowledge and information, more of us are answering an inner call to rediscover ourselves and re-new our lives.  Old paradigms are crumbling and  new ones are appearing in front of us.  The message is loud and clear, change or else the  world will surely change you. This ‘spiritual’ renaissance asks us all to begin an inner journey, one where we take time to  absorb all that history tells us about ourselves, and to strive forth with new ways of seeing  and hearing.  Leonardo da Vinci, polymath and archetypal ‘Renaissance man’, advanced the  notion of ‘curiosita’ – an insatiably questioning approach to life and an unrelenting quest for  discovery and learning.  By asking questions and changing the form of the question from time  to time, new answers would come.  For example, instead of asking the question ‘how we can  get to water?’, he asked, ‘how we can get water to come to us?’  This may seem obvious to us  today, but it was in its way a revolution at the time.  His new approach to thinking was a pre- cursor to his many inventions, and this particular question spawned the invention of the  underwater pipeline, which changed the way the world works. So the call of this time of spiritual awakening is for us to question OUR old attitudes, old thinking  and old ways of being.  The renaissance that is dawning today invites us to the rediscovery and the rebirth of our higher nature, to the re-emergence of the leader within.  By questioning the notions about ourselves that may once have shackled us, we can expand our thinking  and our horizons. It’s time… to give birth to a spiritual renaissance.  Transform old paradigms and make way  for the new.  Increase ‘curiosita’ in order to keep learning and growing before you are threatened  to extinction! Share these thoughts! ‘It’s Time…’ is spreading far and wide! Feel free to forward this wisdom, but to avoid any  karmic rebound, please acknowledge its source – ‘It’s Time…’ by Aruna Ladva, BK Publications London