As winter settles in to influence our lives each day is a new beginning. Letting go of what no longer meets our needs and embracing what we often fear is freedom from the bondage of Self. We learn that kisses are not contracts, And presents are not...

In order to heal the hole in the soul I recommended developing a spiritual practice using the power of Prayer, meditation and a Mantra. Using all three to begin and end the day augments being in the present/maintaining equilibrium and spiritual...

RIGHT MINDFULNESS (Samma Sati) The Buddha says that the Dharma, the ultimate truth of things, is directly visible, timeless, calling out to be approached and seen. He says further that it is always available to us, and that the place where it is to be...

A synopsis of the play by Pedro Calderon LIFE IS A DREAM was published in 1636 or 1637 before Calderon was forty. Inasmuch as plays in seventeenth century Spain were written primarily for immediate production it is probable that this play had been...

Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Stephen Mitchell We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now...