Why are we so afraid of change? Why, when we are so desperate for change, do we become even more desperate when transformation begins? Why do we lose our childhood faith in growing? Why do we cling to old attachments instead of submitting ourselves to new possibilities — to the…

From Vicky Woodward The body has a wisdom of its own….To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative, dammed energy is out… If the individual is ready, and…

And I think this was present in the first two centuries of Christianity and it’s a central theme of Christ and his disciples, this birth into human consciousness of the Christ principle of the soul, of the divine. And then, as you know, in the early years of the church…

Chie Yoshii There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions — not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not…

Our fast food, fast everything culture doesn’t teach us how to slow down and find that still place, the place of peace within. And now children are being taught “mindfulness,” meditation, the naming of emotions. I’m certain some of this is helping children and their families. But my concern is…

I’m not a teacher who encourages careers: I encourage artistry. That’s a big term, and it encompasses many things: talent, integrity, honesty. I’ll stick to one thing that’s been on my mind: choices. I understand the need for money and acclaim, and we’re lying if we say we don’t like…

“We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.” — Audre Lorde * “That’s the thing about Sagittarius: We seem larger than life and unapproachable on the outside. Few people will ask if we’re okay because we’re great…

When life becomes boring and your job is no longer exciting or your marriage is no longer satisfactory, you have to find new life, and that means dropping into that matrix… It’s black at first because you are in a psychic womb….Some people can’t take it. …

…All our individual histories were expressions of this Being’s larger history, our individual struggles were aspects of its larger struggle. The process was so beautiful and so elegant that it swept me into a deep ecstasy and almost took me beyond my capacity to maintain coherence. It was not a…