Sensing Spring: A New Beginning
As spring so fragrantly reminds us, we stand at the threshold of life. We are constantly transforming and therefore capable of wondrous things. To embrace this gift, all we need to do is show up, truly and fully.
As spring so fragrantly reminds us, we stand at the threshold of life. We are constantly transforming and therefore capable of wondrous things. To embrace this gift, all we need to do is show up, truly and fully.
Omid Safi | Posted 05.30.2012
Many traditions speak of the need to be "born again," and we forget that between the first birth and the second birth -- the birth in Spirit, the birth in love -- there is a "death." That death is what the Prophet is talking about, and what Rumi talks about.
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 05.14.2012
It's March Madness again! And regular readers know that I'm not referring to basketball, but the new shops for spring so that we can refresh our wardrobes.
Guy Finley | Posted 03.06.2012
It's really quite clear: Nothing created lives outside the laws of this grand cycle of reciprocity.
Guy Finley | Posted 01.08.2012
The ground over which these leaves race remains the same; it provides the stage upon which an infinite number of characters interact with one another, yet never really change anything other than their places.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.11.2011
The documentary Rebirth begins with a sound familiar to New Yorkers. It's the audio theme for the "all news all the time" radio station 1010 WINS.
Posted 11.09.2011
As happy as Chicago may be to find a break in the sweltering heat this week, seasoned pros know the blustery breezes of fall foreshadow the creeping a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.09.2011
Of all the documentaries about Sept. 11, none is more intimate than "Rebirth," a new film that draws its drama not from the cataclysmic nature of the ...
Thomas David DuBois | Posted 10.13.2011
Buddhism has no single dogmatic view of karma. Unlike Western religious traditions, Buddhism is extremely fluid in its teaching, and assumes that people will gradually move towards more sophisticated understanding of the truth.
Hale Dwoskin | Posted 11.17.2011
Both of these exercises can be used any time you feel the need to shine more light into your life and dispel the darkness -- or when you would simply like a quick energetic lift.
Jack Schimmelman | Posted 05.25.2011
Winter graciously bows and floats away from the northern hemisphere leaving the stage to Spring. This has not been an easy transition.
HuffingtonPost.com | Theo Spielberg | Posted 05.25.2011
'Rebirth,' a documentary that follows the transformation of five people whose lives were forever altered on September 11, 2001, premiered to a standin...
John Selby | Posted 11.17.2011
I'm hitting 65 and feeling like this is the second, more mature round of awakening that hit us in 1968 or thereabouts -- it's a whole new world opening up, for all of us. And why?
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011
New Year is a return to the eternal beginnings. Back to where there is only hope and promise and enthusiastic, well-intentioned energy. Back to the original big-bang-back-seat cosmic conception.
Carol Jones | Posted 11.17.2011
The dual outcome will be not only to meet him where he is, but to be more closely in touch with my own soul. To uncover the joy and all the good things of the soul. To live them consciously.
Natalie Bencivenga | Posted 11.17.2011
As many of you know, the latest season of "Mad Men" recently wrapped with Don shocking us all by proposing to the lovely Megan as his relationship with Betty came crashing down around him.
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011
Autumn is inexorably associated with ripe maturity, harvest and death, as well as the implicit understanding of an eventual rebirth, the offer of resurrection.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.17.2011
Here's a shocking question for you now. What if we never, ever go back to where we were? What if the old game is coming to an end, and a different way of relating with each other is emerging?
Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 11.17.2011
My father, Sion Levy, was ninety-years-old when he was born again on Thursday, July 8 at 5:30 PM. No, my father was not a born again Christian, but...
Susie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011
Some days I let gratitude slip away. I forget to be thankful for all the amazing little things in my new life. But most days I pinch myself when I wake up, just to make sure I haven't passed on to another world.
Christopher Radko | Posted 11.17.2011
The longer days of spring bring on a fresh light of transcendence. There seems to always be more to life than I can let in, but that's also what is so exciting. For me, the gift of spring is real freedom.
Paul David Walker | Posted 11.17.2011
Imagine there is a place within you that connects directly with the formless intelligence that creates a new world every moment.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011
Looking to do your part in helping clean up the Gulf of Mexico post-BP Spill while festing?
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.17.2011
I was taken aback when a CNN commentator conjectured that New Orleans residents are now looking for their "Pound of flesh." Our diaspora is not Shakespeare's Shylock character.
Louise Mirrer | Posted 05.25.2011
The opening of the current hit revival of West Side Story so close to Easter and Passover is a good reminder of the twists and turns of both theatrical and world history.
Lilian Cheung, D.Sc., R.D. | Posted 04.05.2012