Many of us can be quite critical of ourselves. I’ve met so many people who work incredibly hard, yet they still...
My conversations with friends and relatives across the economic and ideological spectrum keep coming back to what we fear. I...
What would our lives be like if we wore a crown of petals instead of a crown of thorns? What...
Recently, while browsing posts on a Facebook meditation group, I found a discussion underway about how much time is ‘enough’...
Poetry The voice of the Divinespeaking through the soul of Humankind…Our need is, with an open heart,to listen and hear,to...
“Where are you from?” In a simple world, I would answer that I’m from Canada. If I gave that answer,...
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]In our new weekly Psychological & Spiritual Therapy column, therapist Jack...
As the United States begins relaxing stay-at-home orders, it has made me reflect on the meaning of freedom in the...
The following has been excerpted from The Power of Kindness: 10th Anniversary Edition, in which psychotherapist Piero Ferrucci outlines a...
Each of us has, at some point, behaved badly towards the people we love. I’m not referring to anything physical...
Mary Grace Orr, of Spirit Rock in Wood Acre, California, has presented something that really captured my attention. She said...
Like any other night, Colin Gordan went through his usual pre-bedtime routine. The 74-year-old former-reality-TV-star-turned-dictator-of-a-nation admired his Botox-injected face in...
A couple of years ago, I attended an event in NYC by amma.org, a non-profit whose spiritual leader is known as...
Compassion leaves the most visible and ineradicable scars on the hearts of those that remove the covers from their eyes. In almost every country, travellers go around with blinders on. The norm...
I. It is, it isn’tthings are what they are, or notwe’re left with what is. II. Our self-pain darkens,our thoughts,...
Locked in Thought My Dear,All I want is your happiness,I want to see you smile.I’ve watched for years behind these...
Living with AIDS Living in a refugee settlement The woman and her boy (by this time he was no longer...
Tibetan sand mandalas are an ancient art form of Tibetan Buddhism. Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning “cosmogram” or “world...
Empaths are highly sensitive, finely tuned instruments when it comes to emotions. They feel everything, sometimes to an extreme, and...
A compassion-based meditation program can significantly improve a person’s ability to read the facial expressions of others, finds a study...
According to the Yoga Alliance’s 2016 report on Yoga in America, “36.7 million Americans or 15 percent of U.S. adults...
Young poplar trees scatter the sunlight into patches of shade in the courtyard of the Main Temple in Dharamsala, India—home...
I find the notion that “there, but by the grace of God, go I,” really says the truth about each...
Two of the most courageous elements missing from most business environments is the combination of vulnerability and mindfulness—at all levels, practised with intention, consistently, and wholeheartedly.
