Chattering Mind

On October 31st, I gave my nine-year-old Chattering a teaspoon of Sambucol Black Elderberry Immune System Syrup with his breakfast. I didn’t think my son was getting a cold. Halloween was preoccupying me and, since my mind is often chattering, I thought it would be a smart to give my son’s immune system some support.…

“Place your burdenat the feet of the Lord of the Universewho accomplishes everything.Remain all the time steadfast in the heart,in the Transcendental Absolute.God knows the past, present, and futureHe will deterine the future for youand accomplish the workWhat is to be done will be doneat the proper time. Don’t worry.Abide in the heart and surrender…

Check out NPR’s fascinating “Talk of the Nation” interview with Edmund Morris regarding his new book “Beethoven, The Universal Composer.” In a response to a call-in question about Beethoven’s spiritual development, Morris reveals that while the great composer was schooled in Roman Catholic liturgy and wrote music as a young person for the church, he…

Must read! Must read! Do not miss the interview on “co-creational” sex with “futurist and social architect” Barbara Marx Hubbard still accessible on the website “What Is Enlightenment?”. Everybody knows that the sexual heat of a youthful relationship is one of life’s greatest thrills. But what is the role of sex later in marriage? Hubbard…

The famous Macy’s store on Manhattan’s 34th Street now has two shoe departments: a “Comfortable” shoe section stocked with sneakers and rubber-soled sandals, and a “Fashion” shoe department brimming with the kind of spiky footwear you might see on “Desperate Housewives.” As I was recently flounced in a club chair, waiting for the sales person…

Dear yogis,…Leave valuables in change room at own risk. All are divine but some do not know it yet.

I woke up at five a.m. one recent morning, in part because I’d gone to bed at ten (an unusually early hour for me, unfortunately), but also because the window shade was beating against the bedroom window pane, making a lovely soft tapping noise in the billowing wind. Enjoying the noise, I listened deeper and…

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