Living Grace

Yesterday, I wrote about the yogic concept of the buddhi mind, that part of the human psyche that can think, reason, and perceive reality without prejudice. Another of the buddhi mind’s capacities is intuition. Intuition is not the repression of intelligence, but the...

The yogic understanding of the human psyche can help us to fine-tune our capacity to see life’s realities intelligently and with clarified precision. As the basis for our understanding, let us realize that we function on two levels of awareness according to the yogic...

We are all swimming in the turbulent waters of steep and dangerous life challenges. Mere human cleverness cannot save us from our self-destructive impulses or the external threats that inevitably come our way. We need a transcendental intelligence, an enlightened...

As a psychotherapist, I once marveled at the fact that people would marry multiple times, even after many failed marriages. Then I realized that as a species we are incapable of giving up on love. We are made for the experience of love, and we thrive only to the...

Monday: God’s mercy is an offering of forgiveness, and forgiveness is an invitation to open our hearts so as to once again break bread with God, no matter how dark our deeds.Tuesday: We are in need of mercy because we all fail to a lesser or greater extent to live up...

I’ve been writing all week about mercy. Today I want to connect our receptivity to mercy to the experience of meditative silence. As a starting point, the experience of deep silence is a manifestation of God’s mercy because such silence is a sign that God is near....