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The contemplative life is often depicted as a solo and introspective one, featuring a lone monk meditating on a mountain, a robed ascetic...
"Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 20:12) My father often spoke of death as a homecoming and was as...
Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat, Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the...
The Indian teacher Ramana Maharshi recommended the technique of self-enquiry to discover the unreality or illusory nature of the proxy-i,...
The breath is a chord that connects us to this life. Meditators use the breath as a guide to awakening and approach it with reverence....
I am the son, nephew, and grandson of Pentecostal and Protestant ministers. I meditate religiously. Within the Judeo-Christian tradition,...
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). -Walt Whitman War/peace, happy/sad,...
In my 19 years of schooling, I was never explicitly taught how to maintain equanimity; but I did learn that an equilateral triangle was...
This post is a compilation of past essays on exercise, fitness, and movement. I started the day with an hour of meditation and breath...