The writer’s life is by definition contemplative. I have a book due at the end of next year, plus I’m about to do a regular twice-a-month column for a magazine.…
Today we are called to resist hopelessness. It would be easy to slip into hopelessness now, to resign ourselves to the idea that the concentrated assaults on everything from the…
Doctors, nurses and scientists are Army ground troops. Government leaders and economists are the Navy. Spiritual practitioners and therapists are the Air Force. It’s an integrative effort, and co-ordinating them…
It is completely unacceptable that any doctor at any hospital in the United States is lacking the medical equipment they need in order to handle this. The richest, most powerful…
I have been acutely aware for many years that we take so much for granted. Maybe it’s partly because my parents took me traveling as a child, and I saw…
Recently at the Unity Church in Boulder we talked about what a difficult moment this is in American history. But there have been other difficult times, to be sure. The…
This year will not be easy. Thomas Paine’s comment about “times that try men’s souls” comes to mind. I’m asking myself how I can avoid an emotional descent that parallels…
It’s going to take a lot of forgiveness, positivity and compassion for those who do not agree with us, to make the kind of changes when all this is over…
Martin Luther King Jr. said those in the civil rights movement were materially positive but spiritually active. Most of us are materially passive now but we should be spiritually active.…
Lately, I’ve been bouncing up against all these different definitions of the same word: healthy. When I talk to clients and yoga students and friends, they invariably use the word…
It is terrible to feel like you've failed. Sometimes you blame yourself, allowing feelings of self-loathing to wash over you while you agonize over what you've done wrong, what you…
In the craziness of life today — amidst the hectic commutes and constantly buzzing phone, expanding responsibilities and a twenty-four-hour news cycle – it is not always easy to be…
The problem with the world is that we’ve lost our sense of reverence — for life, for love, for the earth, for each other, for our families, for God’s universe.…
