A quiet, meditative, and spiritual Italian film about the transmigration of the soul.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: Healing the Heart of Democracy
A challenge to us to try practicing politics through the eye of the heart.
Book Excerpt: Healing the Heart of Democracy
Parker J. Palmer on cultivating the art of holding tensions in a life-giving way.
Book Excerpt: The Power of Pause
Terry Hershey's recommendation that we savor all the ordinary pleasures and activities of a day without the heaviness of expectation, worry, or fear.
Book Excerpt: You Are Here
Thich Nhat Hanh on the Buddha's teaching telling you to make this moment the most magnificent and wonderful moment of your life.
Feature Film Review: Restless
An offbeat and ruminative drama about two young people and their mutual obsession with death and dying.
Book Excerpt: Taking the Leap
Pema Chodron's daily practice to humanize the people we pass on the street.
Book Excerpt: Renewal
Eknath Easwaran on how patience can be a valuable ally in the journey of self-transformation, which has to do with hope.
Spiritual Practice: Ocean of Love Meditation
A simple but powerful meditation on love from Ram Dass.
Film Feature: Films about 9/11
Feature films and documentaries about the day and its aftermath, reviewed from a spiritual perspective.
Book Feature: Spiritual Perspectives on September 11
Spiritual Practice: Repent of the Sin of War
John Dear's personal account of 9/11 and how he intends to honor the anniversary.
Spiritual Practice: Say the Blessings of Jesus
Donna Schaper shares her practice of reading John Philip Newell's book Praying the Earth for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Spiritual Practice Feature: A Spiritual Perspective on the World Trade Center Tragedy
The inspiration for and background to the prayer/poem Rest in Peace written by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat on the afternoon of 9/11/01.
Spiritual Practice: Gratitude
The benefits of gratitude for blessings, learnings, mercies, and protections.
Spiritual Practice: The Power of Forgiveness
Three ways to consciously invite forgiveness into your life.
Spiritual Practice: The Power of Love
An anonymous reading recommended by Lama Surya Das for such occasions as 9/11.
Spiritual Practice: Forgiveness Chant
An anonymous chant recommended by Lama Surya Das for such occasions as 9/11.
Spiritual Practice: Forgiveness Meditation
A meditation to practice forgiveness of others, yourself, and those who have hurt or harmed you by Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.
Spiritual Practice: Practice to Create Peace in the Heart
Story of how a Buddhist community recited the Refuges and the Precepts after 9/11 and instructions for this practice on the anniversary of that event.