Thoughts lead on to action; actions form habits; habits create character; and character creates our destiny. – Debra Moffitt Karma simply means the effects of our actions. When we eat a little too much today, tomorrow, and again the next day, the result is a need to buy new pants to accommodate that expanding waist…

The Rubin Museum is well-known for its ability to combine Buddhist and Asian culture with tantalizing spiritual events. Over the next weeks it presents “Crazy Wisdom,” a film about Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche who is considered to be one of the first pioneers to bring Tibetan Buddhism to America. “Crazy wisdom is a fast track to…

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.  -Peg Bracken Why is it that at the Christmas season, we often feel the most curt and strained with those who we love and who love us most? We rush “home” (wherever that may be), split time between different sets…

As the days are short and the nights are long, the world seems to draw inward and turn its eyes inside to the inner realm of the spirit. In this dark, silence one can hear the whisperings of the heart. The heart speaks ever in a still, small voice. It does not scream above the…

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