Diarmuid O'Murchu on transforming desire into a positive force in our lives.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Feature Film Review: Cyrus
A darkly comic drama that honors the mysteries surrounding human nature, the complexity of intimate relationships, and the bounties of friendship.
Feature Film Review: I Am Love
A stylish and erotic Italian drama about the sexual awakening of a middle-aged trophy wife.
Documentary Film Review: 8: The Mormon Proposition
An expose of the Mormon Church's involvement in an anti-gay crusade fueled by hatred and a rigid defense of family values.
DVD Feature Film Review: Youth in Revolt
An oddball adolescent goes on a wild quest to lose his virginity and to find true love with a seductive and mysterious young woman.
Book Excerpt: Harm Not the Earth
Megan McKenna on building community locally and globally.
Spiritual Quotation: Water, Holiness, Soul, Blessing, Nature, Ritual
. . . how the water element can bring protection . . .
Spiritual Quotation: Water, Healing, Environment, Body
The Kabbalists say water . . .
Spiritual Quotation: Water, Nature, Church, Holiness, Sacraments
. . . water was the most sacramental of elements . . .
Spiritual Quotation: Water, Competition
Water's good for everything . . .
Spiritual Quotation: Water, Toxins, Emotions, Empathy
Water was not meant to be polluted . . .
Spiritual Quotation: Water, Energy, Nature, Memory
Nearly all religions and cultures equate water with energy . . .
Spiritual Quotation: Water, Change
. . . we all come from the sea . . .
Book Review: Soul of a Citizen
Stories of ordinary people who have transformed their communities.
DVD Documentary Film Review: Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
An incredibly moving documentary about the courage of an underground group of video journalists who bring to the world images of the 2007 protests in Burma against a repressive military regime.
Book Excerpt: Instant Enlightenment
David Deida on freely offering praise to people.
Book Review: Lemons to Lemonade
Suggestions for making the most out of setbacks and disappointments.
Book Review: Emotional Repair Kit
A toolkit for anyone interested in journeying on the path to emotional freedom.
Book Review: The Narcissism Epidemic
An important and incisive work of feisty cultural criticism.
Book Excerpt: The Narcissism Epidemic
Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell on how humility, mindfulness, and compassion are antidotes to the epidemic of narcissism.