In this poem, Louise Erdrich explores her relationship with God and spirituality.
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Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.
Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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A popular and practical introduction to psychosynthesis—the empowering psychology of self-actualization and enhanced personal growth. This book outlines a specific programme of easy-to-perform exercises that form the basis of a total system for psychological and spiritual growth.
Venerable Thubten Chodron gives an overview of why we would want to learn about emptiness and teaches on the emptiness of persons and phenomena.
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Many people think they know themselves, who they are. It is a difficult thing to know who you are in the real sense. Acharya Shree Yogeesh talks about the steps of self-realization.
How do you go from intellectual understanding to a direct realization of your true nature? Although there is no predictable process to bring about realization, Adyashanti describes what you can do to ground your understanding in silence.
Bestselling author Michael A. Singer talks about how the path of yoga takes you beyond the personal mind and into freedom and self-realization.