Living Grace

Earlier this week, I wrote of the need to rise above the fears we experience because of the world’s chaos. Equally important is the need to remain awake, to avoid the tendency to sleepwalk through life. Human will is primarily an organ of choice, intentionality, and...

According to Swami Sri Yukteswar, we are only approximately three hundred years out of the kali yuga (the dark ages) and still a very long way from the satya yuga (the golden age, in which an abundance of spiritual light will be available to the minds and hearts of...

Regardless of what is happening around us, the answer to life’s challenges is still the same: love!  Love humanizes and divinizes us. Every act of love echoes into creation forever and forever. Every time we engage in an act of loving service more light is given...

If Covid has taught us anything, it has taught us to honor and care for the body, and to never take it for granted. Our bodies are vehicles which allow us to evolve spiritually while also allowing God’s truth, beauty, and goodness to manifest in time and space. The...

Covid spreads, our climate destabilizes, and Afghanistan implodes. These are but a few of the steep challenges that currently face our human family. What are we to do? The answer is simple: be not afraid. Fear lies at the root of many of our planet’s woes. Fear robs...

We live in a psychologically oriented culture that spends a great deal of energy probing, analyzing, and seeking to understand human emotions, and for the most part, this is good. Yet, we spend very little energy examining human will, intentionality, or motivation....