“We feel like isolated objects within a world of objects. This is not a fact but a perspective,” writes…

Rumor has it that a small percentage of the general population is hardwired with an inclination towards the spiritual.  Far back as my memory…

Hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing. -T.S. Eliot, Introduction to Dante’s Inferno.* As our exploration of…

Welcome back! Before we examine the scientific research designed to help you locate the mind, let’s contemplate how exploring the mystery relates to your…

Introspection is the art of looking inside yourself. Contemplation describes the act of thoughtfully considering an idea or an object. When you…

Lewis Richmond,* the author of Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser, proposes we consider…

Contemplating the word desire and contemplating the word want this week increased my appreciation for both words. The word desire ushered in my internal…

Did the title of today’s post grab your attention? This was the headline for a review of Theodore Dreiser’s, The Financier and it captured…

Many of us sit on our desires until they are dead. An expired desire is comparable to a dead car…

Jungian analyst Marion Woodman divides people into two types: people who spend their time pursuing personal transformation and people who are content to watch television and…