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How to Maintain Your Spirituality After Umrah

When one completes the Umrah successfully, it is believed that blessings and spiritual fulfilment are bestowed upon them. According to belief, it's the calmest journey to Jannah or heaven. Even though the Umrah journey is not easy. It is even more difficult to sustain its purity, and pious character in real life after the Umrah.

In Umrah, one has no duties to perform regarding family, work, home or anything else. This sense of freedom from duty provides Umrah visitors with a distinct emotion that

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2014-Envision-Festival-Costa-RicaReturning for its fourth year to Costa Rica’s southern Pacific Coast at Uvita, the Envision Festival will transform the rainforest into a global village of art, music, yoga and spirituality.

Envision 2014 will be held Feb. 20–23 at Rancho La Merced in Uvita, Costa Rica, home of the renowned Ballena Marine National Park, an important migratory site for the world’s Pacific Humpback Whales. Thousands of festival-goers come every year to Costa Rica for the popular multi-day event.

The Envision Festiva

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The Spiritual Side of Bhutan

This post will cover the two most spiritual things I have ever experienced. I was deeply moved by both of them. Bhutan is a deeply Buddhist country. I have mentioned before that if I ever decided to convert, as if I were disciplined enough to try, it would be in Bhutan. I found that the Tantrayana sect of Buddhism appeals to me for some reason I cannot fathom. Maybe it is just that it seems unspoiled by outside influences, much like Bhutan itself.

On the longest touring day in our itinerary we dr

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