meditation articles

For two years, a small man sits quietly on a park bench. People walk by, lost in their thoughts. One day someone asks him a question. In the weeks that follow there are more people and more questions. Word spreads that the man is a mystic, and has discovered something that brings peace and meaning into our ...

Conventional wisdom dictates that we must set clear goals and have vision if we are to achieve great things. After all, how can we get to we are going if we do not know where we want to go? Now ask, who is setting the goals and who is creating the ...

I am very blessed to live in the household where I live, and have the husband that I have. My husband and I are both lovers of spiritual writings, and together we possess a magnificent library of spiritual books from all religious traditions. ...

To put it simply, the act of meditation involves quieting the mind so you
can open the heart. That's it in a ...

When Trudy Goodman was in her early 20s she had a series of unexpected experiences that jumpstarted her on the spiritual path. She hadn't thought much about meditation until she was on the verge of her initiation into motherhood. ...

The Self speaks to us primarily through intuition. It is the language of the Heart. The value of meditation and other spiritual practices that quiet the mind is that they make intuition more accessible. ...

Time and again I talk to people who are frazzled by life, at wit’s end.  I recently read that the average American gets hit by over 2000 sales pitches daily.  I don’t know if that’s true, as it could have been another sales pitch, but, no doubt, we’re under a constant ...

It might be good to clarify a few common misunderstandings about meditation right off the bat. First, meditation is best thought of as a way of being, rather than a technique or a collection of techniques. ...

You may not think of your mind and body as a "human hard drive," but this interesting and informative article points out some important similarities. ...

It was an ordinary evening with my family. I was sitting in the living room, comfortably reading a review that included a quote from Carl Jung. It was a simple but utterly potent statement. Jung said that everyone has a secret, and that it is difficult to live without a secret. The words reached into my heart and something woke up, something which I didn't even understand. ...