Spirituality

Hi friends, Last weekend, I had a heartfelt phone conversation with a writer friend about something that hits close to home for many of us […]

When I moved to Austin, Texas, from Boulder, Colorado, last year, it took me about three hours to discover and fall in love with Barton […]

This month, I’m wrapping up final revisions on my forthcoming memoir, Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing, published by Hachette Books in March […]

Tonight’s WORDS THAT CHANGED ME comes from a modern spiritual classic, “The Teachings of Don Juan” by Carlos Castaneda. Here it is: “Does this path […]

Tonight’s WORDS CHANGE US comes from “This Is Water” by the late David Foster Wallace. I think these words speak for themselves. What do you […]

Today’s THESE WORDS CHANGED ME comes from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. After days of listening to the Buddha’s teachings, Siddhartha, a wanderer seeking enlightenment, encounters […]

I was in my mid-thirties and quite depressed when I first stumbled on a recording of Alan Watts’ unique style of spiritual entertainment. Within a […]

Years ago, I committed to a daily yoga practice after two decades of casual three-days-per-week practice.  Within months, I saw tangible results. I became more […]

Seeing our planet–the entire misty blue sphere–from outer space changes one’s perspective. Astronauts who’ve experienced this say it’s like a mystical experience. It changed them. […]

I wake up early. Not by choice really. There’s not much to do at 4:30 a.m. or 5 a.m. but practice. I look serious here. […]

Hi Friends, I’ve been thinking about faith lately. Faith is a central theme in the travel memoir I’m writing. Faith has been a central theme […]

A consistent yoga practice can be powerful. It’s like standing in front of a mirror and staring at your reflection. This can be frightening for […]

Transformation is hard. It takes work to break old habits and create new ones. We must stay diligent at “doing the work.” Yoga, meditation, self-inquiry, […]

Last February, a few weeks after my 51st birthday and on the twisting road to becoming a middle-aged yoga instructor, I skulked through the orange-themed […]

I once wrote a feature story for The New York Times Magazine about “the real Indiana Jones.” His name was , and I met him at a […]

Something changed in me that day on Mount Arunachala. I glimpsed something I’d never seen before. At least, not since I was a boy. It […]