In the age of social media at a time when in person interaction is limited, there seems to be a strong desire in the collective to be...

The intellect gathers data from outside itself to make informed decisions. If an individual (the ego) has never experienced its Universal...

Opening the top set of doors of my antique Chinese cabinet painted Guru-Robe orange by the previous owners (which is precisely why I like...

Go ahead and Stir the bathwater. Put your bare feet in the grass. Take a nap in a patch of sunlight. Sniff that luscious nectarine before...

The high quality, very sweet way they took care of their plants inspired me to take better care of my plants and also, to take better...

Recently, I celebrated the culmination of a lot of hard work, devotion, dedication, and diving into the unknown. A labor of love came to...

"I don't understand" is stagnant. It doesn't move us any closer to understanding, but rather, keeps us stuck in a state of not...

As meditators, we awaken an awareness that our individuality is an outlet through which Nature's Intelligence enjoys Itself. Knowing this...

In a world of butterflies, sparkles, rainbows, and sunflowers, I felt like a pinto bean. A little dusty bean that had been used in an...

With the holidays coming and the expectation that we are able to travel to see family and friends this year, it is possible we might find...

A conversation with the sagacious nine-year-old in my home reminded me that childlike wonder and curiosity is available to us at any age....

Being close to someone facing a terminal illness who was lucid all the way to the last seconds of their life taught me more lessons than...

Standing in a valley surrounded by the splendor of Nature, drinking in the sights, sounds, the scent of pine, wet bark, crisp air comes...

When we hold on too tightly, we may see only one way forward. The road is narrow and often disappointing. When we stand in the...

Approaching the unusual intersection which had four lanes worth of metro tracks, confusing signage, and one way traffic facing me, I...

The heater was broken in the lecture hall where I was doing my morning meditation program while on teacher training in India. I could...

We exercise a willingness to experience the pangs of separation in order to have the joy of reunion. We do it with our eyes open. We do...

All of the potential and abundance of Spring is alive and thriving at this very moment even though our experience may be the cold, dark,...

More handsome than any man or god, Kamadeva, with his broad chest, fine nose, perfect teeth, slender waist and wavy locks of bluish black...

Long before I joined the millions who read and enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert's, Eat, Pray, Love, I had a strong desire to learn to speak...