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Not independence but interdependence crucial to life

Recently, I have noted again and again how much ways of being that I have long considered virtues seem to have fallen on tough times.

Breaking the glass ceiling

There is much in the news about breaking the glass ceiling of prejudice in the fight for equality of the sexes. Less known are the spiritual underpinnings of this movement and its history in the heart of Islam.

Healing our own brokenness brings a harvest for all

August has a wonderful sense of slow, languorous living. The days fold into longer warm evenings, a time to enjoy the celestial lightshow of the Perseid meteor showers or the storied constellations.

Hinduism and true leadership

Leadership is being debated with ever greater vigor these days – whether it is business leadership, political leadership, religious leadership or social leadership.

From sympathy to compassionate acts

Even as we see exhilarating portraits of Olympics and other “glorious” events in the world, I find it hard not to notice that there is still much suffering in this world (including in the favelas where the trickle down beneficial effect of Olympics i

Cozying up to Zero

A singular, very impactful intellectual shift that comes through meditation is the heightened sensitivity to initial conditions. This is the corollary to valorizing kindness over rightness. In the absence of a Creator God, universal chaos reigns.

In Buddhism, kindness comes before rightness

Buddhist thought is slowly seeping into the vernacular of of the so-called western world.

Editing and the spiritual practice of seeing with new eyes

I've been doing a lot of editing lately for a big project. I'd written the first drafts thinking a certain way about how the text should read, what it should convey. I sent it off to the client who liked it, but then asked for edits.

Spiritual Lessons from Pokemon Go

Yes. I admit it. I was one of the people who saw Pokemon Go launch in the United States and then waited expectantly for it to be available in Canada.

Brexit - A Generational Divide

…. or perhaps it is all just a generational thing. There certainly appears to have been a significant generational divide in Britain’s vote to leave the EU.