Christmas is celebrated across the world as the birth of Jesus Christ, the light that entered a dark and divided world. Yet, when seen through the combined lenses of astronomy, astrology, and ...

There’s a part of awakening no one warns you about—the silence after the storm, the space where even your own breath sounds foreign. I call it divine isolation. When the veil lifts, and you begin to ...

J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3), David Bowie, Elvis Presley & Stephen Hawking (January 8), Catherine, Princess of Wales (January 9), Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15), Muhammad Ali, Michelle Obama, Jim ...

Everyone around us struggles in marriage. But you wouldn’t know it because most people feel bad about their struggle, so they hide it. I have yet to meet a couple who were not challenged to some ...

I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...

In one of the stamens of the flower of the world is Pemako in the shape of Vajra Yogini lying down. Outer, inner and secret levels correspond to the levels of the mind. In the secret chakra of Vajra ...

She would have been 93, now. Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and ...

Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

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Death comes without Warning. This body will be a corpse. This Precious Human Life is but a Bubble. Seize the day. Rejoice and be of benefit. Of Carpe Diem, or the Buddhist Four Reminders. “A little ...

Jim Carrey talks about his battle with depression. He explains just how tough suffering from depression can be, and how finding freedom from depression is tied to separating from the ego. When I think ...