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Lalla the Yogini

By Mariette Raina

Lalla, Lal Ded in Hindi, Lal Arifa for Muslims, or Lalleshwari in Sanskrit...

Love is the Last Word

By Aldous Huxley

Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness

Which Untruth to Love?

By Lao Tzu

The Science of Spiritual Narcissism

By Scott Barry Kaufman

Self-enhancement through spiritual practices can fool some of us into thinking we’re evolving

Yoga and Emotional Intelligence

By Jonathan Riley

How can Yoga help us to better understand our emotions?

An Ode to Not Meditating

By James Parker

I know, I know: It’s good for you.

Dark Ages

By Eric Baret

What is dark is the so-called spiritual quest.

The Goddess Parā

By Christian de Vietri

She is the primordial Word, the very essence of the highest reality,

Rabia al Basri

She was a Sufi mystic who lived in the eighth century

Gentleness and Great Pain

By NPR

A gunman barricaded himself inside a one-room Amish schoolhouse

A Meditation for Rooting Radically in Self and Place

By Laura Johnson

In these times of layered and intersecting personal and collective traumas...

Simple Life

By J. Krishnamurti

Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things

How I Became a Madman

By Khalil Gibran

You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus.