Column: Spiritual Psychology
Mar 3 2009 11:11AM
Ruth Schneider retired to an idyllic peaceful life. But her urge for selfless service would take her on an improbable journey.
Column: A Small Medium at Large
Mar 2 2009 04:12PM
What is all the fuss about 2012?
Column: Love, God and Sex
Mar 1 2009 01:11PM
Saving the world may be as simple as loving and caring for your partner’s needs.
Column: Executive Soul
Feb 27 2009 05:09PM
Since when did an American President talk about morality and the economy in the same breath?
Column: SpiritLinks
Feb 26 2009 09:48AM
With our complex lives, it is easy to overlook our body's pleas. In this age of medical technology explosion, we could live decades longer than our predecessors. Our body has been entrusted to us for this lifetime. We have a responsibility to self-care.
Column: wavelength
Feb 26 2009 12:00AM
Eating tranquilizers, pounding Jack, inhaling carbs? Do you need to be sedated before you watch the evening news? Was Chicken Little right; the sky is falling. Are we about to live Cormac McCarthy’s version of The Road? Here’s how to cope
Column: Bluebonnet
Feb 25 2009 01:41PM
Some say it’s human nature to hold grudges. Perhaps so, but even still, we always have a choice.
Column: A Small Medium at Large
Feb 24 2009 04:24PM
Celbrating the life and music of U. Utah Phillips
Column: Left Coast Lions' Den
Feb 24 2009 12:25AM
After so many years of watching my country fight intractable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seeing how those conflicts have changed the soul of America I’m tired of war.
Column: SpiritLinks
Feb 21 2009 12:13AM
"Rabbi Sam," a solo play in which Varon plays 12 characters, was born from a sermon he gave at Yom Kippur. Three years in the making, with collaborator/director David Ford, the piece asks, "Is Sam a spiritual genius or completely crazy?"
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 20 2009 09:55AM
It’s been said repeatedly that you’d have most of what you want in life if there wasn’t a belief, or more than one, blocking you. One of the biggest blocks for many is the one that says, “I don’t deserve.”
Column: wavelength
Feb 17 2009 11:22PM
As if plugged in to a socket, I was lit with inspiration, filled with the glimmer of God. My being was illuminated. The epiphany popped right out of me. And there it was, in all of its ephemeral glory, standing next to the bread basket.
Column: A Small Medium at Large
Feb 16 2009 05:51PM
Rocky Anderson sets a great example of how to make a difference for the better!
Column: Love, God and Sex
Feb 14 2009 04:13PM
The secret of having a long-term loving relationship is for each partner to continuously create the other in the image and likeness of Love.
Column: Woman at the Well
Feb 14 2009 03:40PM
Today is Evolution Sunday. Over 1000 congregations across our nation and our world are celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday today.
Column: Executive Soul
Feb 13 2009 07:40AM
Valentine’s Day is a perfect opportunity to reflect on love in business — not the soap opera kind, but a deeper, more solid kind.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 12 2009 02:38PM
Whether you’ve retired voluntarily or not, do you have a plan about how to make the most of your life experience? Is there something you’ve always wanted to do, a little flame inside that begs you to let it glow?
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 12 2009 02:36PM
Maybe what’s going on in the economy has nudged or forced you to consider how you can amp up every area of your business. Maybe this was on your mind before the shake-up, which has become a catalyst for shift sooner than later.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 12 2009 02:34PM
Twice in the last two weeks, I’ve come across information that says many people no longer want (or believe in) magic-bullet solutions. This will set many people free and keep others trapped.
Column: Bluebonnet
Feb 12 2009 10:11AM
I knew my getting all worked up was blowing everything out of proportion and was not going to help me accomplish what I needed and wanted. But the “Drama Queen” in me needed to be reminded.
Column: wavelength
Feb 11 2009 01:45AM
Listless? Bored? Pressing the snooze button on God? Many spiritual sojourners are finding themselves smack dab in the middle of stuck. They are experiencing the symptoms of spiritual depression. What exactly is it, and how do you cope?
Column: Executive Soul
Feb 7 2009 10:26AM
What does real leadership look like, in government, in business, and in the media, in the midst of this economic crisis?
Column: Love, God and Sex
Feb 5 2009 06:18PM
Obey means “to hear.” Learning to hear with your brain, your body, your heart and your soul is essential for a life-long loving relationship.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Feb 5 2009 05:02PM
Do you have a money-fear addiction? You know you have an addiction to money fears if you don’t experience money and other forms of abundance coming into your life easily and frequently.
Column: SpiritLinks
Feb 5 2009 12:59AM
In 279 AD, St. Valentinus mentored a blind girl and against the edict of Cruel Claudius married young lovers. In lieu of spiking the greeting card, diamond and flowers industries, let Valentine’s Day be an honoring of who we are as loving friends.
Column: wavelength
Feb 4 2009 12:09AM
Serious, very serious issues abound and yet, like Jell-O, there seems to be a lot of wiggle room along with some general knuckleheaded-ness. Let’s roll the videotape and take a look at some of January’s bonehead moves and this month’s Hall of Shame.
Column: Spiritual Psychology
Feb 3 2009 05:06PM
Responses to last weeks Column —“Are We All Potential Monsters?”— suggest more complex factors underlying cruel behavior than is accounted for by Milgram’s sweeping conclusion.
Column: Bluebonnet
Feb 3 2009 10:58AM
I wish someone had told me, “He’s just not that into you!” I might have been spared days (or weeks) pining over what I thought was lost love.
Column: Ask Your Mama™
Jan 31 2009 04:49PM
Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more.
The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Ceremony & Spirituality
Column: Executive Soul
Jan 31 2009 08:06AM
It's time to raise the deeper questions among business leaders.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 28 2009 10:05AM
Previously, many of us considered it a luxury to choose to reinvent ourselves or our businesses. At present, many find themselves thrust into this position by the economy.
Column: Of Karma and Dharma
Jan 27 2009 03:22PM
Barack Obama's inclusion of Hindus and non-believers as well as the usual triumvirate of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the makeup of America augurs a new beginning in religious and ethnic relations, and in acknowledging America as a truly diverse natio
Column: wavelength
Jan 27 2009 01:17AM
What about the energetics of weight loss? If everything is energy, wouldn’t it make sense that weight can also be viewed through this lens?
Column: A Small Medium at Large
Jan 26 2009 01:07PM
This is an essay of praise for Rachel Carson's and Kaiulani Lee's work.
Column: Bluebonnet
Jan 26 2009 01:13AM
I believe in a happy ending — or future. It’s just that simple. I don’t want to ever buy into the idea that the world is cruel and dark and people are damned.
Column: Our Place in the Universe
Jan 24 2009 10:26PM
Exploring the focus and direction of masculinity
Column: Executive Soul
Jan 24 2009 05:17PM
How can Americans see the opportunity in the present crisis? President Obama and Rev. Lowery point the way.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 22 2009 01:18PM
You practice and/or teach Law of Attraction principles. Obviously, then, every moment of your life is blissful, right?
Column: Bluebonnet
Jan 22 2009 10:23AM
Must our obligations and responsibilities keep us from taking time to appreciate what’s happening around us?
Column: Love, God and Sex
Jan 21 2009 08:03PM
When you respect the magnificent soul who has chosen to journey with you, your communication becomes a tool for healing.
Column: wavelength
Jan 20 2009 01:16AM
Be still, my soul. It is a week of miracles, from the Miracle on the Hudson to the Inauguration, another kind of miracle in the United States. I find myself filled with emotion, tears at the ready. It is a time of deep healing.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 19 2009 04:03PM
Mainstream comments and thoughts make it easy to think of the economy as something separate from individuals and communities, which is not true. Here are a few ideas about this.
Column: Executive Soul
Jan 19 2009 02:30PM
What can Martin Luther King teach about strengthening America's soul in light of its current challenges?
Column: Left Coast Lions' Den
Jan 16 2009 04:38PM
When we laugh at our own piety, we are reminded that the Divine is as alive in mystery as he—or she—is in certainty. If we fool ourselves into thinking otherwise, then the joke is on us.
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 16 2009 02:21PM
Meaningful life lessons are sometimes derived from unusual or unsuspected methods and revealed many years later.
Column: SpiritLinks
Jan 16 2009 01:53AM
Wellness isn't being disease free; it is being dis-ease-free. Good health is achieved by tending to each aspect of our humanness: our mental and emotional states, spirituality, bodily function and design.
Column: Bluebonnet
Jan 13 2009 11:18PM
If you are dissatisfied with your life, one of the best approaches could be to act more like the person you want to be rather than sitting around analyzing yourself.
Column: wavelength
Jan 12 2009 11:44PM
“Last year I returned from India with dysentery. I was easily cured. But I’d seen so many kids living in squalor there, I learned that for impoverished kids … diarrhea can be a death sentence. 5,000 kids die every day for a lack of clean drinking water."
Column: Unclutter Your Life
Jan 12 2009 05:06PM
It’s believed best not to look back to move forward; but if you do this wisely, it can make a difference.
Column: Outing the Goddess Within
Jan 11 2009 10:33PM
2009 is my year of manifestation. Here is what I predict both you and I will manifest this year.