The Dalai Lama on the goal of all spiritual practices as the awakening mind.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Excerpt: Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?
On allowing ourselves to see our mistakes as unique features of ourselves.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: Mystical Experience or Unitive Seeing
Cynthia Bourgeault on how mystical experiences can be spiritual traps whereas unitive seeing perceives by grasping the whole.
Book Excerpt: The Book of the Shepherd
What a young boy learns from seeing a thorn as spiritual teacher.
Book Review: For Lovers of God Everywhere
98 poems by Christian mystics with commentaries by Roger Housden.
Book Excerpt: For Lovers of God Everywhere
A poem about gratitude by John O'Donohue.
Book Review: Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian
A thoughtful, illuminating, and adventuresome interfaith journey by a respected Christian theologian and advocate of religious double belonging.
Book Excerpt: Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian
Theologian Paul Knitter on the meaning of the Buddhist practice of not taking sides and what that means for peacemaking.
Book Review: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia
An imaginative tour of our friendly universe where play, optimism, and hope abound.
Book Excerpt: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia
Several tasty bits and pieces from Rob Brezsny's wild and imaginative tour of our friendly world.
Book Review: Daniel Berrigan
A capacious work that brings together the essential writings of antiwar activist, peacemaker, poet, and Christian commentator Daniel Berrigan.
Book Excerpt: Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan on why there can never be and never has been a just war.
Book Review: The Book of the Shepherd
A quest story about seeking a new way of compassion, love, and peace in world where violence and revenge hold sway.
Book Excerpt: Legacy of the Heart
Wayne Muller on sharing pain and suffering with all human beings.
Book Review: Beauty and the Soul
A profound and multidimensional tribute to beauty and its many incarnations, manifestations, and benefits.
Book Excerpt: Beauty and the Soul
Piero Ferrucci on how to make the experience of beauty more likely and more meaningful.
Book Excerpt: Happiness
On the benefits of finding and keeping happiness in our lives.
Book Excerpt: 365 Energy Boosters
On understanding your energy habits.
Book Excerpt: Make Straight the Crooked Ways
Edward Hays on Advent and Christmas.