As we enter the holiday season, we celebrate the miracle of transformation as darkness begins to give way to the light. It’s a great turning, a change in direction, physically represented by the winter solstice, when (in the northern hemisphere) days stop growing shorter, and the hours of sunshine begin to increase. Every major religion acknowledges this celestial change, and […]

Cultures around the world set aside a day each year to express gratitude. Depending on the culture, the date varies, but it’s usually held around harvest time, when people have reaped the bounties of the earth, and pause to reflect on the goodness of life. Thanksgiving celebrations are held throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. I’m thinking about this […]

As I write this, it is early September. Later in the month, in the northern hemisphere, it will be the autumnal equinox, the day when summer ends and fall begins. You can already feel the difference in the air. The mornings are cooler. On some of the trees the leaves are already turning to flame. It made me think about […]

Throughout the sacred texts we repeatedly find the idea that there are two aspects to a human being. There is the earth aspect, living as any other creature in the world, fulfilling the needs of nature; living and dying. And then there is a higher aspect, capable of knowing the lower consciously, and at the same time realizing its alignment […]

We all love mysteries. And they can be fun to solve. But there’s one mystery that’s so much more than a simple diversion. Its solution can connect us to untold resources for solving problems, both our own and the problems of the world. It’s the greatest mystery of all, and the one with the greatest transformational power… It’s the mystery […]

Most of us have known many different kinds of love. There’s the love of sweethearts. The love of children and family. The love of the things we do, and of our homeland. These are personal and changeable loves. And then there’s a love not so easy to define. It’s a love without an object — in which we do not […]

Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. It has been quietly, steadily telling itself right in front of us all along. We just couldn’t hear it over the clatter and chatter of our own secret demands. Listen quietly for a moment. Everything can change right […]