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December 2017

December 01, 2017

Why it Pays to Give Life Your Best 95% Effort.

What, you say? What happened to giving a 100% effort? Or some of you Type-A...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

The 10-Minute “Thinking Person’s” Meditation

Do you meditate? While I make a noble effort to meditate most days, I often...

November 21, 2017

The one prayer you need to say at Thanksgiving.

Is it any wonder that, after Christmas, Thanksgiving is the favorite holiday of Americans? For...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

“Why are you here?” Oprah and Paulo Coelho have an answer.

There’s a new podcast out called “Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations,” that recently released a conversation...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Being Humble Doesn’t Make You Weak. It Makes You a Better Person

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to...

July 2017

July 12, 2017

Tony Robbins on Living Your Life in a Beautiful State (of Mind).

In his recent book Unshakeable, the life philosophy guru Tony Robbins lays down the basics...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Finding God in Silence: Centering Prayer in 5 Easy Steps

In silence, we come to know God. The evocative quote above comes from Benjamin Riggs...

June 20, 2017

The Day Mahatma Gandhi Threw His Sandal Off a Train

Last year, I featured excerpts from several college commencement speeches. This year, I’m focusing on...

June 14, 2017

Take off the mask. Tell your story.

There are two sides to all of us. There is the public-facing side, the person...

June 08, 2017

A Total Stranger Left My Friend $250—and the Reason Is Heart-Warming

Imagine opening your mailbox one day and finding an unmarked, sealed plain white envelope inside—containing...

June 01, 2017

The magical missing ingredient to a happy life.

Are you happy? Chances are, if I caught you on a good day, you’d probably...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Is the cure for our aches, pains and fatigue, right in front of us?

How are you feeling today? Healthy and alert with some pep in your step? Or...

May 16, 2017

Is the fantastic claim Jesus made about Heaven true?

It’s funny how we usually think of heaven as being in a faraway place, one...

May 03, 2017

What does the world owe you?

We all want to make a good impression in life, to be the best possible...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

An 8-Step Guide to Meditation—and Deep Inner Peace.

Are you familiar with the writer Sam Harris? In 2005, he wrote a bestselling book...

April 13, 2017

The Fantastical Story of Dr. Seuss & Fate.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer...

April 06, 2017

Was the Best Spirituality Book of All Time Written 120 Years Ago?

Every few years there’s a spirituality book that captures the imagination of the public and...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

60-Second Inspiration: The Hidden Meaning of Zen.

During his storied life, the religious scholar Huston Smith studied and then practiced virtually all...

March 15, 2017

Is Richard Simmons our Mother Teresa?

Have you heard the new podcast “Missing Richard Simmons”? It’s the most popular podcast in...

March 09, 2017

The Wall: Getting past the obstacles that hold us back.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion....

March 03, 2017

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Everything.

What are we supposed to accomplish during this lifetime? It goes without saying that we...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Revealing the mystical secrets of Kabbalah.

Kabbalah is the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible. It has been...

February 20, 2017

Life is good. Life is bad. Either way, you’re right.

How do you see life? Do you look at it as a series of struggles...

February 15, 2017

Is the key to knowing God, knowing yourself?

Did you read my last story about the hidden nature of God? I wrote about...

February 09, 2017

Does God have a secret hiding place?

Every now and then, we can have the feeling that God is missing in action....

February 04, 2017

Walt Whitman on God, America and Life.

In my neck of the woods, the name Walt Whitman is associated with a bridge...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Will You Live “Your Own Damn Life” Before You Die?

The role of a fully realized human being is to arrive at the door of...

January 06, 2017

“Dear God, I’m doing the best I can.” (Remembering Huston Smith)

Perhaps the great religious scholar of our time died last week in Berkeley, California. His...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Three steps to a more fulfilling 2017 (circa 1660).

Blaise Pascal was a true Renaissance man. A Frenchman who lived during the 1600s, Pascal...

December 24, 2016

A Christmas Eve Tradition: Lighting Up the Plastic Baby Jesus.

Do you have a family ritual you engage in each Christmas? In The Soul of...