Bombs sent to the homes of former U.S. presidents. Politicians being fired on at baseball practice. Journalists being body slammed....

If your life is dark and joyless, you are out of touch with your spirit and being ruled by your ego-mind. Learn the power of witnessing...

The thought struck me this morning as I was working out at the gym while scanning another morning of angry headlines on the news. This...

I am always amazed how much needless drama we create for ourselves and for others around us by taking things personally. You know how it...

No, I don’t mean that kind of giving up. As hopeless as you may feel right now, suicide is never the answer. It’s a waste of precious...

Of late I have taken up a new form of meditation. Kayaking. We tend to think of meditation as a sedentary practice, done while sitting...

Some days I am overtaken by an impulse to dance to the sheer joy of being alive. There I am working around the house, music playing, when...

While out on my walk this morning with my dog Cassie, a simple but profound thought struck me. I was watching Cassie run gleefully...

Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau A new year has begun and so, for me, the annual purging...

Do yoga masters own dogs? Is it possible to reach enlightenment when you have a puppy in the house? These questions have been going...

Today all across America, families will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving. I love this holiday – even more in some ways than Christmas. As...

I was on a self-help message board the other day and I came across these words, written by a man clearly in deep mental anguish: “I’m a...

It was a Friday morning and I got the call no one wants to get. Because of a shakeup at the company where I worked, I would be losing my...

In this world there are two kinds of people in the world: night owls and early birds. I count myself among the latter species. I love the...

Why do so few people just sit on their porches and watch the world anymore? That question came to me the other day when I went to visit...

We are more – much, much more – than our jobs. Learn to gain fulfillment from your work without becoming your work. Recently I went...