“It is never too late for any of us to look at our minds. We can always sit down and allow the space for anything to arise. Sometimes we have a shocking experience of ourselves. Often we get carried away. Without judging, without buying into likes and dislikes, we can always encourage ourselves to just…

When author Colin Beavan embarked on his plan for a new book, “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process,” he was one of many take-out-food eating, light-leaving-on, TV-watching, plastic-bag-using New Yorkers. His wife, Michelle…

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen “Perseverance is the hard worl you do after getting tired of the hard work you did.” – Newt Gingrinch “Aging qrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas…

This weekend in the midst of all the chanting at Omega Institute’s Ecstatic Chant Festival, when I wasn’t dancing, I was writing. There’s something about kirtan that makes me scribble–it shakes up so much stuff (fears, joys, doubts, dreams, longings) that it must come out through booty-shaking, tears, words spoken and drawn. Here are a few…

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