Rumi It is love that brings happiness to people. It is love that gives joy to happiness. My mother didn’t give birth to me, that love did. A hundred blessings and praises to that love. ~ Rumi For more inspiration, meditate with the mystics
A Holiday Story from Rishikesh, India
A Holiday Story It was Christmas week, 1983. The rumpled foothills of the Garhwali Himalayan range shone blue-ish in the early twilight and late dawn. The harder core ascetics, not the ones who flock like snow birds to the holy sites closer to the equator and lower in elevation, knotted their rough orange wool scarves around their ears, turning … Read More
Evolutionary Spirituality: A Path & Perspective
Evolutionary Spirituality empowering our practice with the energy of the universe by Amy Edelstein “Shaping and reshaping, in wonder I am here!” ~ Goethe Over the last decade, evolutionary spirituality has spread its canopy over many of our beliefs, mystical intuitions, and the quality of our relatedness. A marriage of science and spirit, some argue this path is as … Read More
Great Awakenings Cover Story
The winning photo for my new anthology, coauthored with Chris Parish, Great Awakenings: Radical Visions of Spiritual Love & Evolution was photographed in March 1983, on a trek north of the Kathmandu Valley, in the Langtang mountain region. How I got there is a story and a promise that happened a few years before. In the blacklight room of my … Read More
How to Renew Yourself * An EnTheos Class
To watch the 30 minute video class for free, click here. Introduction Do you ache to relax? Do you find when you do make time for renewal you instead start looking around for ways to fill that time? Are you having troubling connecting to friends and to yourself? Do you sometimes feel like a walk-in in your own life? You … Read More
In Honor of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z”l
With deep honor, respect, and great Love for Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, who always expressed his warmth, kindness, and humanity in a very unusual way. I always felt, quite personally, his profound respect for Spirit, his curiosity and opennness for other’s paths, and his generosity of support and encouragement to pursue the Divine authentically, however it may call. Like many, I … Read More
An EnTheos Class on Renewal Pt 2
To watch the 30 minute video class for free, click here. Read 5 More Big Ideas from this EnTheos Class on Renewal here. Be Brave Renewal takes courage. Hardly a passive stance, breathing in joy and grace takes a brave commitment to that which we cannot see. It takes strength to pursue something we can’t measure and that is far less … Read More