We recently visited the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, an art museum nestled in a little forest outside the city. It’s an architectural beauty built of stone and wood, with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the tall trees. The gallery had beautiful...
Humility is one of our greatest virtues, as it essentially removes all obstacles to love and wisdom. Yet it isn’t something that is much talked about or even understood in our modern world – where the focus often is on do, do, do and know, know, know. In...
They are the glass, a window, but not the ocean. As I browse a small family-owned workshop in Greece, who handmake icons, I thought that today I can share with you the beautiful spiritual purpose of the icons in Christian Orthodoxy – as I find...
I was recently listening to a talk by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and a person from the audience asked him, “Guruji, is marriage free will or destiny?” Sri Sri Ravi Shankar smiled and said funnily, “Well, if it’s working it’s free will, and if...
Last time we talked about lust, and today let us talk about the other little monster speaking in our ear sometimes: pride. How do we overcome pride, and what is its real unmet need that we are actually seeking to fulfill in order to create more inner harmony and...
“Love is a knowing and of being known, a seeing and of being seen, not of flesh, but through the flesh.” Lust is one of the most common, and trickiest, of things that many people struggle with in life. While pleasure and physical connection are human needs...
