I’ll see if I can help unpack this essential topic, although it’s very difficult and I’m not sure I’ll do...
The source of us all The divine creative essence is the source of all that is good and loving and...
As my seasonal work in Alaska was coming to an end one summer, I felt a strong urge to go...
Today’s world is confusing and conflicted. We have people in leadership positions who substitute fantasy for fact. We have people...
Suddenly, in 2011, my eyes no longer functioned as translucent lenses. Waking up with blurry vision was terrifying. I could...
Within this philosophical inquiry, which includes guided meditation periods and an interactive question-and-answer session, facilitator Stan Lipkin and the participants...
I’ve struggled, for a long time, with what compassion truly means. I can easily read the definition in the dictionary,...
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The theologian Peter Kreeft declares, “Joy is more than happiness, just as happiness is more than pleasure. Pleasure is in...
How do we learn to live with our pain and suffering as we live out our lives?
Many of us carry a chip on our shoulder because we feel we have been mistreated by others. Many hold onto resentments as a justification for feeling that we have been victimized by life’s circumstances.
Eric was my mother’s youngest sibling. There were two brothers, the oldest and the youngest of the brood, and three sisters in the middle. All the siblings, but my mother, were married when Eric was born, and my mother wound up being left at home to help my grandmother with the chores when Eric was a baby.
DISCOVERING YOUR PURPOSE: Live a life of joy, love and fulfillment
There is, without a doubt, a purpose for your life. There is a reason why you are here. There are things you were meant to do and be in this lifetime.
You are connected with everyone and everything that has stood for that purpose that has ever been or ever will be.
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What if spirituality could be reduced to the knowledge of a pair of simple rules promulgated by nature itself? To live...
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not...
Are you struggling with accepting something? We’ve curated this collection of 31 acceptance quotes from a range of thoughtful luminaries...
Sometimes all it takes is one second for everything in your life to come crashing down. Once you've been alive long enough you know this—perhaps too well. Everything changes, and sometimes...
I have worked with this mindfulness training consciously and unconsciously long before I knew there was a Buddhist precept about it. But I did not have a good understanding about anger or violence...
Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher and writer, often speaks about the power of deep listening and the effect this can have on another person...
Why don’t my children listen to me? Why can't politicians tell the truth? Why did it have to rain on my wedding day? Reality baffles us. We question it every day...
Dealing with suffering is like handling a poisonous snake. We have to learn about the snake, and we ourselves have to grow stronger and more stable in order to handle it without hurting...
