To seek happiness outside ourselves is like trying to lasso a cloud. Happiness is not a thing: It is a state of mind.
Clarity Magazine, Happiness
Clarity Magazine, Coping with Loss, Overcoming Challenging Karma
The Worst Choice I Ever Made—and the Best
The death of a parent is never easy to accept, especially when you’re an impressionable 15-year-old shielded from life’s harsh edges.
Clarity Magazine, Overcoming Challenging Karma, Spiritual Growth
The Courage to Act
Living by intuition deepens our spiritual life tremendously, but to do so takes more courage than one might think.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
God Helping God – a Tribute to Vairagi
The opportunity to live with other spiritual seekers is a profound blessing. Such was the case with all of us who were touched by the passing of our friend and fellow gurubhai, Vairagi Escobar.
Clarity Magazine, Coping with Loss, Spiritual Growth
Padre Pio and the “Way of the Cross”
People from all walks of life have testified that it was not Padre Pio’s miracles but his Christ-like presence and deep devotion to God that changed their lives.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Opening to the Grace of the Guru
When one faces a challenge on any level, what’s important is not the solution but knowing that the guru’s blessings are tangibly at hand.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality and Science
The Pain That Became a Separate Reality
I became a yoga teacher because my back hurt. At the height of my problems, I had sciatica and pinched nerves that kept me from turning my head in a normal fashion.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Learn to Flow with Life
To flow with life means being able to adapt to everything that happens. When you live at your center, you can flow with life.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Centeredness: Key To Inner Strength
Last year while I was in New Jersey on a lecture tour, Thomas, my host, discussed how his meditation practice had helped him calm a potentially dangerous situation.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Dealing with Fear
Fear is a pernicious problem that shuts down our life-force, and starts a negative cycle that becomes self-reinforcing. Fortunately, there are ways to reverse this cycle.
