For 25 years Ellen Burstyn did not go out on a date. Then, at 71, she fell in love with a Greek actor who was 23 years younger.
Sara Davidson | Posted 06.22.2009 | Living
I was hot to hook up with Billy the Bad when a ski wreck blew my plans.
Sara Davidson | Posted 06.20.2009 | Living
Part 1: How to Make a Woman Fall This is a serial, a true story about love and awakening. Many have had a Billy in their life -- a relationship that'...
Anne Hill | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living
As we learn to tap into the hidden ally within every nightmare image, we discover that many things once fearful to us can become sources of joy and freedom.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
Then tasks and situations that once pushed and pulled you in so many ways become frictionless flow, and things that were hard to do -- even cleaning out the garage -- become easy.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living
Awareness is like space; everything else comes and goes within it like wind. Even the most violent wind can't make the space less spacious.
Steve Posner | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
Four decades after their Himalayan sojourn, the surviving Beatles' public return to Maharishi was easy because his teachings had never left them.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living
We're all in this same leaking, sinking boat. It's always been this way and always will. Yet a few people have managed to remain unperturbed. What can we learn from these sages?
Natalia Rose | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
Anger is the desire to protect. It is not some dark, evil emotion that we should shun. Yet, when we suppress it, anger waits for an opportunity to express itself out of its original context.
Michael DeJong | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
With a smart president now at the helm, we'll be entering a new era that'll offer decency over hubris, peace over war, intelligence over beliefs, openness over secrecy, and creativity over the status quo.
Russell Shorto | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
One reason for the hunger for change is that the years of the Bush presidency have coincided with a worldwide rise of fundamentalisms: Christian, Muslim, and secular.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 10.19.2008 | Living
When I say, "who you are," I do not mean your name, address, body type, favorite music, or even the type of car you drive.
Stacey Lawson | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living
My previous post explored a short aphorism from the Siva Sutras - "Knowledge is Bondage" - which warned that grasping for knowledge obscures true wisd...
Steve Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Why was Obama waxing patriotic during his foreign trip instead of touting a universal spirituality that removes the need to make cultural and political distinctions?
Lauren Cahn | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living
Even yogis have their moments: We scream at our kids. We tell a fib here or there. We might choose to indulge in a trashy magazine rather than rereading the Bhagavad Gita.
nytimes.com | Andy Newman | Posted 07.11.2008 | Living
On the last Tuesday in June, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health was a New Age encyclopedia come to life. A roomful of seekers pursued "Total Imme...
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media
I think God is a big sassy black woman, and She sent Oprah down to spread the love. Let's be honest here. The last guy She sent wasn't too media sav...
Lindsay Mannering | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living
Every August from second grade to freshman year of high school, Mom and Dad packed my cedar trunk into the Plymouth Voyager and drove me northeast acr...
Sara Davidson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living