Teaching Spirituality to Children: Part II

In Teaching Spirituality to Children: Part I, we explored the meaning of spirituality and its active expression through ceremony and storytelling.  In this post, we look at prayer, meditation, and… Read More

Simplicity Is Power: The Tattoo

A few years ago there was a very popular song by Bobby McFerrin entitled “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”  The lyrics are a litany of serious life problems most people face… Read More

The World’s Wisdom

The World’s Wisdom by Philip Novak is an outstanding resource for getting the basics of all the world’s wisdom traditions from the original texts and translations.  Novak also provides a… Read More

The Power of Now

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is truly a spiritual guide with the potential to be life-changing.  Tolle introduces the book by describing his spiritual awakening and its immediate… Read More

Avalanches

I think I know how avalanches occur.  I have seen a few mini-avalanches outside my window on the tree branches.  Rarely does the snowfall in a straight vertical pattern here… Read More

Beyond the Dream

Beyond the Dream by Thomas Hora, M.D. was published in 1996, and although old by some standards, it is a timeless piece of work that is highly relevant to anyone… Read More

The Battle of Epic Proportions

For the last two-plus years, I have been living in a 20-year-old Mexican colonial style home in the Tepozteca mountains in the Mexican state of Morelos, about two hours south… Read More