Do you feel overwhelmed by increasing levels of racial tension and anti-immigrant sentiment in our country? Do you feel discouraged by a sense tha…Read more

I’ll share another story with you. It’s embarrassing, so please be kind. In July of 2014, I was on a road trip, and I got inspired to write a book a…Read more

In my last post, I wrote about a really awkward dinner party where a well-respected priest used the N-word. In front of two 8-year-old children. If …Read more

Last fall, I was at a friend’s family dinner party. At the table were several of his family’s old friends, two 8-year-olds, and a priest, who was al…Read more

If you could choose any emotion to feel for the rest of your life, what would it be? Happiness? Peace? Contentedness? Excitement? Compassion? Those …Read more

The underlying premise of the Vedic world view, one which I espouse whole-heartedly, is that we are all one thing, which is pure consciousness. Love…Read more

I spent this past weekend at a retreat in Highlands, North Carolina. Not as a leader, but as a consumer. A yoga retreat? A meditation retreat? Nope.…Read more

Trouble sleeping is one of the main reasons that students come to me to learn to meditate. One of my students, Sarah Kleiner, is a brilliant writer …Read more

One year ago, I had just opened a meditation studio in the commercial district of my neighborhood in Atlanta. I was living in my teeny sub-500ft ‘ca…Read more