Conscious living is nothing more than being aware of each and every moment – of living in the now. By living in the moment we cease to identify with past and present and with those the cascade of thoughts with which we erroneously identify.
Several years ago, at the absolute depths of my personal crisis, a horrendous and hideous thought suddenly occurred to me: What if there is no God? What if this entire existence is … meaningless? What if all of the suffering and anguish and turmoil…
Today is my 47th birthday and to celebrate I want to share with you three gifts that have made a big difference in my life and perhaps will in yours as well. The first is my personal “Bible” if you will, a book by…
In a classic scene from “Young Frankenstein,” Igor is dispatched to snatch from a laboratory the brain of a recently deceased genius as the final ingredient in Dr. Frankenstein’s reanimation project. Brought to life, however, the monster behaves in a deranged fashion, prompting Frankenstein…
We watched “2012” the other night, the latest in what seems to be a growing industry of apocalyptic films and books foretelling the end of civilization as we know it. Coming as it does on the heels of so many recent high-profile earthquakes, it’s…
The flyer in my mailbox read: “Because life is too busy to waste time cleaning your own home.” And it pictured a happy team of immigrants busily cleaning a modern middle-class McMansion while the equally happy homeowners helpfully tutored their children with all that…
Some years ago I had a remarkable dream. In it I was a raindrop tumbling from a great, gray cloud and I felt ecstatically free the way one can in flying dreams. Then, suddenly, the clouds parted and below me stretched a vast and…