What is balanced living? From the point of a spiritual search, why is balance important? by Michael Greenstein Much spiritual practice can be defined as an attempt to reach and maintain balance, on a worldly level, so that the spiritual consciousness might awaken and come forward. One of the characteristics of our physical body is the continual effort to maintain…
This was published originally by The New Yorker Magazine May 2011 by Elizabeth Minkel When the book was handed to me, I didn’t know where to begin. Its two hundred oversized, glossy pages were filled with beautiful but impossibly foreign illustrations, men and women from a time and place I couldn’t really pinpoint. It cast a…
Jason Scholder of Reel Change Films interviews Coleman Barks, widely considered the foremost scholar and translator of Rumi’s poetry, for the ongoing spiritual documentary series, Walking the Path. EPBgXgHLuuw
I have found that talking to you all about being blocked up and unable to write has really helped. I cannot say how it has helped, but I feel a weight has lifted off my chest and here I am again pounding away on the keyboard, keeping my sister’s cat from enjoying his nap on…
I thought I would share a bit some of the thing that troubled me and kept me form blogging. I figure it will be a god exercise to get it all out as well as get some feedback from you the readers of the blog So The Going on Gets a Going On Honesty I…
Over the years I have shared a lot with you. Look at the archive when I signed in I could notice a pattern of feverish periods of posting here and writing and interspersed with long periods of inactivity. This last period of inactivity was the most pronounced, and for a long time I couldn’t see myself ever writing…
