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“I think we’ve heard this one already,” I joked to my friend this weekend when “Om Namah Shivaya” started up again. We were at a kirtan festival, and in case you don’t get the lame joke, that particular Sanskrit mantra is used a lot in kirtan, devotional call-and-response chanting with roots in Indian spiritual traditions.…

I don’t proselytize about too many products. I mean Tom’s shoes are amazing; I love my Bum Bars, and Dagoba organic chocolate are things, in my opinion, worth spreading the word about. Mostly, though, I’m pretty product-fickle. But not so with Annie’s Goddess Dressing. I’ve been using it almost every day for about 10 years, save…

I was in the presence of an enlightened being last night. A love-Buddha. A Kali-esque Divine-mama mama. It was my third time getting hugged by Amma, or Ammachi the “hugging saint.” My friends and I waited and chatted and ate for many hours in a kind of happy spiritual chaos at a large theater in Manhattan. I ran…

“If you can be content right now, then you’ll always be content, because it’s always right now.” –Willie Nelson   For more inspiration (though I’m not sure anyone can top Willie), check out our Inspirational Quotes page.
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