Brit Hume, while I wouldn't presume to advise you to take up Buddhism, maybe you could try reading some Buddhist authors like Jack Kornfield or Pema Chodron to supplement your scripture.
With the New Year let's refocus on the purpose of our blog. In short, it is for you to become a secret mystic, opening you up to a world of compassion, intimacy and bliss beyond what can be imagined.
I'm going to experiment with assigning myself only two jobs on Saturday -- going to yoga and reading The New Yorker.
Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg asserted that religion is a natural, innate component to being human. All people, he claims, have a religious need or spiritual proclivity.
Maybe if the United States embraces India's multicultural philosophy it can prevent antagonizing other nations while dissuading our political adolescents from pursuing global prepubescent mishaps.
As the new year begins, I'm sure many people have set grandiose goals for themselves that they are determined to meet, with diligence and hard wo...
Do you agree that our political leadership -- across the board -- and our talking heads -- Left and Right, let alone the mainstream media -- are mostly too jaded and/or cowardly to actually speak truth?
My late mother used shopping as a hobby. If she were still alive, I wonder if she would be looking for something else to occupy her time. It seems many Americans are.
The benefit to meditation is that we become more synchronized in body and mind and begin to relate to our world in a less distracted and more wakeful way.
This unfortunate event is a call to action. It is worth placing full body scanners in all airports around the world.
The very process of radicalization had a devastating effect on the otherwise good life and good upbringing this young man had enjoyed.
The greatest danger of the economic crisis now is that we will learn nothing from it. If that happens, all the pain and suffering so many have known will have been in vain.
A devout and scholarly Muslim, President Wahid showed the courage to lift restrictions on Chinese culture, promote Christian-Muslim dialogue, and even advocate normalizing relations with Israel.
Thanks to a 23-year-old black man who deceptively looks like an innocent boy, African-Americans, Arabs and the Muslim Diaspora all have something in common. They are more easily viewed as terrorists, and there's no escaping it.
The Christian God abhors the shedding of innocent blood and nuclear weapons are only capable of widespread, indiscriminate killing and destruction of life.
If someone has ever told you that everything you need is not inside you, they are misinformed, misaligned, and have forgotten what is always there. Or, they're just trying to control you.
There was very little talk about war in our house when my father was deployed. We didn't know what to expect when my father returned home, but we quickly found out that he was a different person.
Our draconian consent laws are largely the product of a conservative political culture that has transformed the fight against child molestation into a full-blown war on teenage sexuality.
What we can do is "enjoy ourselves" by striving to appreciate the wonder of our life and times, including the inevitable setbacks.
Over time, the object of my seeking evolved from merely looking for personal relief, to a grander, all-encompassing search for truth, God and enlightenment.
And your best shot to do good in the world and avoid harm is to call upon reason and evidence, do your research and -- here is where religion often trips up -- ask the questions that could show you wrong.
