The Permanence of Joy

Major religious festivals such as Christmas, Eid-el-Fitr for Muslims, Hanukkah for Jews, Diwali or Krishna Jyanti for Hindus and many others are simply the historically created cultural expressions pointing to a few eternal truths common to many religious...

Accepting myself completely

The March blog is a translation of a text written by Pierre which he used to share with participants in some of his personal development workshops. As of today, I’ve decided to start/continue with the process of accepting myself totally, as I am, with no...

Expanding Our Images of God

Author Shannon K. Evans finds in Julian of Norwich a model for how to expand our images of God: To Julian of Norwich, feminine depictions of God were not radical, subversive, or rebellious. They were obvious, inevitable, and clear. She didn’t feel the need to defend...

The Power of Right Thinking

Today I  am going to share with you a story which shows the power of right thinking, e.g., blessing. When he was in his early twenties, my friend Mark decided to undertake a trip around the planet. At one moment, he ended up in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Each...

Divine Love’s Tenderness

The seashell called angel wing is delicate and exquisitely beautiful. One sometimes finds numbers of them on the shore when the tide recedes, their winsome loveliness resting gently on the sand. One wonders why they were not crushed to smithereens in the pounding of...