A short photo essay of Springtime flowers and colours.
In honour of Earth Day, I offer you a compilation. Here are wise words of great thinkers, mystics and poets, woven between poems of children and the wonder of the Earth seen through their eyes and art.
A beautiful union of art and sport.
A meditation for the beginning of Holy Week.
What function do they serve? Sandra Maitri offers answers in her book The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram.
Samples of the sacred that permeates our efforts at Beams and Struts.
A poem by the great Zen master Dogen.
Taking the rush of skiing into a 1-2-3 practice of spirit.
A look at Fr. Jean Pierre de Caussade's pioneering work on the creative impulse.
Solstice is in a few days, winter is upon us, the year is ending. Here's a poem in honour of death, emptiness and letting go.
Turning towards our demons. Awakening to the fullness of each messy moment. A meditation with Catherine of Siena.
I was raised pretty strongly Catholic, but the venture was ultimately doomed because of the music. Is that how these people feel about God?
A little Teresa of Avila, Spanish mystic, erotic theologian, and source of profound wisdom.
In this edition of Sacred Sundays we look at four sculptures whose themes surround the captivity- and breaking out- of the soul.
The Enneagram charts nine personality types in the human race, but it also has profound spiritual ramifications, as Sandra Maitri explores in her book on the subject.
Is anger destructive or constructive? Does it lead to constriction and closure or can it expand and clarify? Here's Robert Masters on Healthily experiencing and expressing anger.
Love yourself, your body and laugh till every last bit of that beautiful body of yours hurts.
A devotional poem by Mahadeviyakka, a great female Shaiva Saint of South India.
In a world vying for our attention and selling inadequacy at every turn, how do we guard against the insatiable desire to consume or to simply change our state moment by moment?
It's amazing the things we will do to avoid being the least bit uncomfortable. A look at comfort orientation as a form of laziness.