On a remote peninsula in Northern Greece, eight hundred feet above the Aegean Sea, sits a dramatic looking monastery. It is only one of...

A few years ago I visited Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, located on the leeward side of the island. Founded in 1970, it is a traditional...

In his Introduction to Thich Nhat Hanh’s book The Energy of Prayer, Dr. Larry Dossey says that prayer is once again returning to...

In 1867 Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian writer and philosopher, diverts his travels while in Switzerland to see a painting he had heard...

When I first started trying to understand meditation, the concept of emptying was often front and center. In one way or another, I...

When referring to the first line of the Lord’s Prayer “Our Father who art in Heaven” Charles Allen author of God’s Psychiatry and a...

One morning, many years ago, I spent the early hours reading one of the many translations of Taoism's primary Scripture of the Way, the...