Living Grace

This week, Isha Das writes to us from Assisi, Italy, to share Assisi's peace, rest, and inspiration. Becoming aware of and living from the stream of cit, pure interior awareness, is not a dumbing down process, and it has nothing to do with naval-gazing. Rather, cit is...

This week, Isha Das writes to us from Assisi, Italy, to share Assisi's peace, rest, and inspiration. Last week I introduced the yogic concept of “the citta mind” and “the buddhi mind.” To review, the citta mind encompasses the seemingly endless influx of reactive...

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.”Jesus What makes Jesus‘ words particularly poignant is that he speaks them on the eve of his crucifixion. How can he talk about...

Monday: Does God actually guide us? And how do we avail ourselves of this guidance? Do we even really want to be guided by God?Tuesday: The yogic understanding of the human psyche can help us to fine-tune our capacity to see life’s realities intelligently...

Recently someone asked me if I was still a Christian. With great hesitation, I answered in the affirmative. My hesitation had nothing to do with my belief in Jesus as a great avatar. Rather, it stemmed from my understanding of what it means to be his disciple. To be a...

Yesterday I wrote about intuition as the marriage of human intelligence with divine wisdom. Here, let us go back to basics: Do we have faith in the existence of God? Do we have faith in the existence of transcendental wisdom and truth? My own guess is that deep down...