(PART 1) After the haramattan the child will be born. He will come with trouble in one hand and peace in the other. Many will try to kill him but their efforts will only serve to manifest prophecy. Where will he be born, this child? Who have been assigned to be his parents? It is [...]

–posted by Shelley As a single mom, it is often hard for me to provide those little “extras” my children seem to want. About four weeks my 11 yr old son came home from school to inform that the musical instrument he had made from recycled products was chosen to be sent to the NYS Green [...]

We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she’s met in her work in “patient capital” — people who have immersed themselves in a cause, a community, a passion for justice. These human stories carry powerful moments of inspiration. [...]

Once upon a time there was a poor husbandman who had many children and little to give them in the way either of food or clothing. They were all pretty, but the prettiest of all was the youngest daughter, who was so beautiful that there were no bounds to her beauty. So once–it was late [...]

Here is to you Danish Shamim. Life; a pattern of hard, good and painful devotions of the day by day that makes us grow stronger. I can’t tell what life is for everyone, but I can tell what it is for me. Life; to find out what life is we should first find what is [...]

I’m a little pine tree that lives in a big forest. Day by day I grow another inch, and although it’s not much, for me it means a beautiful stage in my life. The tree next to me is the highest I have ever seen, that’s what I want to be when I grow up, [...]

Death is not just the end of life But the beginning of a new journey To where? Only your deeds will tell Either good or bad, you shall be judged But remember plainly, where you will live the start of the new life You can make the choice, the chance is in your hand But [...]

Footsteps and bright colors filled the room along with a deathly heat radiating from the stove that stood two feet away. The smell of food and crying children strangled the little breeze the air conditioner managed to produce.  Their dark skin completely draped with the colors of the sun, they came to pay their respect [...]

Meditation is only one of the many qualities that is emphasized. It’s a very important one because we have to understand our mind, and we can only understand our mind by looking at it. But to be a well-balanced practitioner and reach our aim of being a totally integrated and realized being, we must develop [...]

What you see you become. What you see is a selective act of attention and interpretation. Although you are inundated by billions of bits of sensory impulses every moment, you selectively filter out the vast majority, allowing only a very small fraction into your awareness. What you allow into your awareness is determined by your [...]