Relationship and Relating – Leonard Jacobson
by Leonard Jacobson: Relationships by their very nature are based in the past and future. They exist as a construct of the mind… […]
Amma’s Multifaceted Empire, Built on Hugs
By JAKE HALPERN: THERE are entourages — and then there is the retinue of Mata Amritanandamayi, a 59-year-old Indian guru known simply as Amma, or “mother.” […]
Sharon Salzberg Be Kind To Yourself—Right Now
by Sharon Salzberg: To be kind to others, you need to start with yourself… […]
Qualities Of Conscious Love – Ram Dass
by Ram Dass: The first kind of love we are familiar with is the bio-chemical love, the, ‘Let’s make love…’ […]
David Deida Love Can Be Fierce
by David Deida: Truth: As you grow spiritually, first you become neutralized and then you bloom sexually. […]
We’re made up of stardust – Dr. Wayne Dryer
Dr. Wayne Dryer: Our body is made up of chemicals, far too many for me to elaborate here, but some of them are […]
Leonard Jacobson You Are Love
Leonard Jacobson: When you are present, you are love, and there’s nothing you can do about it. […]
Ram Dass – What Are The Different Levels Of Being In Love?
by Ram Dass: Some of you make love, physically. Some of you are in love romantically. Some of you are love, consciously… […]
Swami Satchidananda: Apostle Of Peace
“Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.” His holiness, Swami Satchidananda, affectionately called Gurudev by many, […]
Swami Satchidananda, Woodstock’s Guru, Dies at 87
by Douglas Martin: Swami Satchidananda, the guru with the gigantic cottony beard who opened the Woodstock festival by calling music ”the celestial sound that controls the whole universe,” died on Monday in Madras in South [...]
Truth Is One, Paths Are Many’
by Daniel Redwood DC: The Reverend Sri Swami Satchidananda has for many years been an apostle of peace in a world filled with war, a herald of moderation in a culture addicted to the extremes. […]
Five Ways Swami Satchidananda Yoga Can Balance Your Life
by Darren Chow: Swami Satchidananda brought his brand of popular yoga to the United States in the Sixties. […]
Tara Brach Committing to Presence for the Sake of Love
by Tara Brach: Jeff was convinced he’d fallen out of love with his wife, Arlene, and that nothing could salvage their twenty-six-year marriage. […]
A Conscious Union
by Gina Hardy: A Conscious Union – The Ultimate Relationship… […]
Sharon Salzberg on Real Love and the Art of Mindful Connection
by Sharon Salzberg: We all yearn for connection, yet often feel trapped by our sense of isolation, anger, or envy. In her new book ‘Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection’… […]
Karen Maezen Miller I’m Here
by Karen Maezen Miller: Years and years ago when I was young and busy and my mother was alive, I would rarely call home… […]
True Freedom: Caring Deeply Without Striving
by Barry Boyce: When we awaken our fearless heart and honor our desire to be in communion with others—valuing connection over control—joy emerges of its own accord… […]
Tips to Identify the Difference Between Love and Lust
Adapted from Dr. Judith Orloff’s Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness […]
Thich Nhat Hanh Growing Together
by Thich Nhat Hanh: In his introduction to the book, Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us […]
Catherine Ingram Heart to Heart
Cape Healing Arts publisher Beth Draper interviewed Catherine Ingram via email recently. […]
Love And Truth – Dr. Alberto Villoldo
by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: Love is not only a feeling… […]
How To Start Your Spiritual Journey – 7 Illuminating Steps
by Mateo Sol: There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? – Rumi […]
How to Forgive People, and Not Judge Them – Jonathan Robinson
by Jonathan Robinson: The Compassion Questions. Have you noticed that some people are just plain irritating? […]
Weaving Love With Spirit – Dr. Alberto Villoldo
by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: Love is the most powerful emotion we will ever experience—even greater than fear… […]
All You Need Is Love?
By James Ballantyne: “Can we dare to think people are kind, and shape organisations around this view?” […]
The Gift Of Being Unattached In Relationships.
by Kate Rose: “Real love begins when nothing is expected in return.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh […]
Sarada Devi: The Holy Mother
by Swami Nikhilananda: HOLY MOTHER, in a unique way, fulfilled the duties of wife, mother, and nun. […]
Don Miguel Ruiz Be a Master of Love: Are you ready to share your table?
by Don Miguel Ruiz: ONCE UPON A TIME, a Master was talking to a crowd of people, and his message was so wonderful that everyone felt touched by his words of love. […]
The Type Of Love That Makes People Happiest
by Albert C Brooks: When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship… […]
Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New World and a New Life
by Shakti Gawain: Many of us started our spiritual journeys with Shakti Gawain by our sides. Her landmark book on spiritual awakening, Living in the Light, gave us permission to walk bold new life paths. [...]
Seven Steps to Cultivating Compassion – Part 1
It’s hard to always show compassion — even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. Pt 2 […]
Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time: Sharon Salzberg
by Sharon Salzberg: It’s only after we’ve practiced many times that we’ll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile… […]
Gabrielle Bernstein, and the women who follow her
by Lisa Elaine Held: On a freezing Friday night in New York, a line of women in their 20s and 30s, wearing Tory Burch flats and carrying Longchamps bags, forms on Third Avenue. […]
Dr. Bruce Lipton: The Twilight Zone
by Dr. Bruce Lipton Ph.D: Towards a brighter, more wholesome future… […]
Maximize Your Love Potential
by ESTHER AND JERRY HICKS Try this exercise to transform your relationships. […]
How to Create ‘Authentic Power’ A Conversation with Gary Zukav
Gary Zukav’s view of enlightenment owes its debt to no single philosophy or idea. […]
A Letter From Albert Einstein To His Daughter: About The Universal Force Which Is LOVE
In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, […]
5 Ways You Know You’ve Found Your Life’s Work
by Dr Nikki Starr Noce, MD: Imagine waking up everyday excited for life… […]
Love + Wisdom = Buddha
Zen teacher Norman Fischer looks at the famed Heart Sutra and explains why compassion and emptiness go hand in hand… […]
A Gift of Love
A musical interpretation of some of Rumi’s poetry. […]
Rumi: This is love
A poem about love from Rumi. […]
Rumi: Say I Am You
A Sufi poem by Rumi written elegantly to inspire and to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine. […]
Rumi: Sufi Poem
A Rumi poem fused with images and music. […]
In Rumi’s Footsteps: Konya, Turkey
by Brad Gooch: Arriving in Konya, a medium-sized city in Turkey’s Central Anatolian heartland, about an hour’s flight southeast of Istanbul, my brief mumble to the cab driver—“Hotel Rumi”—was direction enough. […]
A Rumi of One’s Own
by Rachel Aviv: Several years ago Kabir Helminski, a sheikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufism, received a call from Madonna’s producer, who wanted to hire his troupe of whirling dervishes for a music video [...]