Living Grace

This week, Kriyabans from the Assisi Institute share aspects of the spiritual life as Isha Das turns to other work on our behalf. Today's passage comes from Greg Schuler. This Thanksgiving week, I am grateful for the gift of our spiritual community. I like to think...

This week, Kriyabans from the Assisi Institute share aspects of the spiritual life as Isha Das turns to other work on our behalf. Today's passage comes from Nick Clidas. Even before the time of Jesus, the brilliant Roman philosopher Cicero wrote, “A thankful heart is...

The most fundamental religious question is not what we believe but what guides our choices. If power determines our choices we end up as psychopaths. If pleasure rules our choices we become hedonists. If mere sentiment moves our choices, we become weak and...

Monday: When it comes to the experience of God, a different kind of knowing is needed, what Yogananda terms “intuition.” To know God in an experiential or intuitive way is to embody the very life and love of God within our awareness and thus to become God-like....

I want to make something very clear: the development of spiritual intuition is not the same thing as observing, analyzing, or critiquing our perceptions. Spiritual intuition is the willingness to enter into a kind of interior darkness that Jewish mystics call KAVANA...

To a lesser or greater extent, we are all stuck in our thoughts and emotions and trapped in our distorted narratives. Intuition has the power to take us beyond our prison walls. We must understand, however, that intuition necessarily leads to action. Inspired action...