We need dreams and attention to them. When it is not available through established religious or civic ritual, people will seek it in other forms.
I have used these keys for many years in my classes. I offer them to you to facilitate your spiritual journey.
Paraphrasing poet Gary Snyder, meditation is a process of entering into our deep identity over and over again, until it becomes the identity from which we live.
The Dances of Universal Peace are participatory body prayer, not performance art.
People have over the years urged us to remove this tree, fearing the possibility that it might fall on our house. This particular giant was clearly leaning away from our buildings.
Metaphysics teaches that you don't go to Heaven just because you have been a good person; you grow to Heaven through the gradual, majestic process of spiritual evolution.
“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the first half of the 20th century in Protestant churches all over Britain.
At a certain point, "readers of the Old French version of Genesis understood the statement 'Adam and Eve ate a pom' to mean 'Adam and Eve ate an apple,'" explains Azzan Yadin-Israel.
To make our state of mind more important than what we are doing is to walk a spiritual path. That’s pretty basic. But it all becomes a little more complicated...
I am inspired to share helpful techniques from my own tradition to add to this emerging global mindfulness conversation.
I have three discoveries to share with you that may support your own unique emergence into increasing fulfillment.
When we begin to investigate our life experiences as “material” to reflect back to us the ways in which we can self-direct our healing process, we begin the journey...
It is easy to love people who love us, but it is possible and necessary to give love to people who have wounded us because this is where the spiritual opportunity lies.
Nothing is more important for the future of humanity than a global return to joy. At a moment of profound sadness regarding the state of the world...
In an attempt to keep up in an increasingly fast world, we are always on the go, non-stop doing, grabbing coffees and rushing lunches . . . We are in constant motion, fingers active if not our whole body...
In this age of too much political negativity and price gouging it is sometimes difficult to find and see the positive. But here it is staring out at me from my kitchen window.
I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home. My father was a preacher who was particularly attracted to the words of Solomon that he must not "spare the rod" in disciplining his child.
Recently I was invited to participate in an online event on compassion. One of the participants shared possibly the most moving story on compassion I have ever heard in my existence.
Meditation gives us greater access to nonlocal realities: uplifting and harmonizing emotions, intuition and creativity, and an abundance of health-giving life force.
Walking in nature, eating delicious food, poetry, playing with our children, dancing and singing, making love, are all graces we can name as sacred encounters with life itself. These experiences open us up to different states of being and have a positive effect on our psyches.
As mysterious as the brain is, mindfulness, I believe, can help us know more about it and the brilliance of which it is capable.
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