It’s morning. I complete my bathroom ablutions and sip some coffee. Making my way to the study, I pause to light a single candle centered on a small table. Sitting in a large, wooden straight back chair, I begin. Sometimes I start with a chant and other times a favorite… Read More »Self-Transcendence and Sustainable Spirituality
What’s better for the environment: using paper bags that could increase deforestation or plastic bags that result in debris everywhere from city streets to water ways? Is it more environmentally friendly to use energy to wash a dirty plate or to use a throw-away paper plate? What about sending greetings… Read More »Sustainable Spirituality: The Foundation for Green Living
In the mid 1980’s, I read a novel by May Sarton: Anger. Because her autobiographic work, The Journal of a Solitude, touched me deeply, I hoped her novel exploring expressions of anger would help me sort out my own experience of anger. Anger is an emotion which has complicated my… Read More »Anger: A Signal for Change
We live in a time of great uncertainty. More people are unemployed in the United States than have been since the Great Depression. The number of families living in poverty has reached the level of the 1960’s when Johnson declared a war on poverty. The country is divided politically, economically,… Read More »Sustainable Spirituality: Re-Thinking Our Life Together
Over the last month, I’ve made weekly trips beyond to the suburbs along a bumpy road far from the busy city. While it’s a drive out of my way, it’s a trip I look forward to. I always find something I didn’t expect – something good to bring home. My… Read More »Gratitude for Being Sustained
If you asked a group of people about their experiences of spirituality and their beliefs, you’d quickly discover that people who maintain regular spiritual practices and strive to integrate the wisdom lived from those practices with their daily lives tend to believe wide variety different things. While there may be… Read More »Spirituality, Belief and Truth
If you’re like most people, your pension, 401(k) or retirement annuity looked at lot better three years ago than it does today. Three years ago, you may have felt much more secure in your job or been living in the home of your dreams. Then, all of a sudden, it… Read More »Greed: Who’s to Blame?
She’s regularly in the news. She’s the current a pop sensation. She generates press by acting, dressing, and presenting herself as over-the-top. At age 24, Stefani Germanotta has achieved international fame within two years of the release of her first album. In the midst of the glamour and well-honed PR,… Read More »Lady Gaga: What is the Truth?