Dr. Seuss (March 2), Khaled Hosseini (March 4), Gabriel García Márquez (March 6), Jack Kerouac (March 12), Albert Einstein (March 14), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15), Fred Rogers (March 20), Aretha ...

Some months ago, I found myself lying in bed at nearly three in the morning, endlessly scrolling through my newsfeed. My jaw was tight. My breathing was shallow. My body had that familiar buzzing ...

When my 70-year-old Korean hairstylist, Karen, mentioned that her husband had passed away a few years ago, I did what any well-mannered person would do. I gasped, put my hand on my heart, and said, ...

Most of us avoid being judgmental. I know I do, but I still catch myself judging people automatically. I remind myself that it’s natural—that my mind’s sole purpose is to evaluate people and ...

There was once a man who was visited by three goddesses. They were attempting to settle a dispute between them, a trifling matter to determine which of them held claim to the golden apple that had ...

Saying “thank you” ain’t nearly enough, I’m sure we agree, but it’s a start! Those who know war, as they say, hate war. It’s not a thing of glory, it’s a thing of mud and blood. Plato said “Only the ...

Everyone and their mom knows, at least intellectually, that the whole of creation is in a state of endless revolution. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “No same man could walk through ...

It is often said that we don’t find yoga, but that yoga finds us. That something in our life, in the universe, responds to our readiness to benefit from what yoga has to offer us and then presents us ...

What Am I Doing & Why? This is a continuation of the exploration – Part 1: Samadhipadah is here, and the Introduction to this enterprise is here. Please feel free to join in the discussion! This ...

To my sweet wild woman, I know why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else—you don’t need a man, but a goddamn warrior. You are the strength of Turkish coffee at sunrise darlin’ and don’t try to pretend ...

Can it ever become a term that transcends race? I was born in New York City in 1978, the year hip hop was birthed in the South Bronx. The first cassette tape I owned was Run DMC’s Tougher Than Leather ...

We can talk about spirituality or yoga or meditation or mindfulness all day, but life has a way of testing whether our understanding is superficial, or thorough. There’s a famous story about Naropa ...