Apr 30, 2021–May 2, 2022
May 24, 2020–May 31, 2021
Oct 21, 2020–Oct 25, 2021
With Ariel Giarretto
How do we settle in such unsettling times?
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
It starts with Being Human—and moves on from there
A Sample for our Supporters
By Thomas Nail
Consciousness may be an emergent property from a bunch of background chatter.
By Lao Tzu
By Matt Licata
There’s a fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives.
By Laura Johnson
In these times of layered and intersecting personal and collective traumas...
With Richard Strozzi-Heckler • Sunday, May 23, 10–11:30am PDT
A Live Online Community Gathering Facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
With Fred LaMotte
Let us explore poetry as guided meditation
With Pouria Montazeri
Rumi was not unfamiliar to crisis.
By Rabia al Basri
In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.
By Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
With Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman
With Maya Luna
Poetry from the Deep Feminine
By Jeff Foster
It's simple. When you feel sad, just feel sad.
By Howard Thurman
The true purpose of all spiritual disciplines is to clear away...
By Cecilia Payne
O Universe, O Lover, I gave myself to thee
By Pesha Gertler
Finally on my way to yes, I bump into all the places where I said no
With Estas Tonne
A winter solstice 2020 short stream for a Movement Medicine community
By Chelan Harkin
Now I drink dark chocolate and let the moon sing to me.
With Moving Sounds
Musica Sacra — this describes very well our intuitively played music
with Estas Tonne and Dimitri Artemenko
By Maria Popova
Meanwhile, someplace in the world, somebody is making love and another a poem.
By Gabrielle Roth
Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth
With Ben Bushill
The seed of life is within us all, our dance here is mundane, strange and wonderful.
By Andrew Colliver
Unbelief is good medicine.
By Shekhinah Mountainwater
In the beginning is Goddess
By Monica Timbal
An excerpt, and an exclusive gift to our community
For silence is not God, nor speaking
By Mary Oliver
By Maya Luna
By John Muir
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable...
By Stephen Livine
All that exists does not for long.
By Paul Swanson
Where do you see a window you can open for a subtle sacrament to slip into your day?
We see the game. The jig is up.
Every human being has a cross to bear.
By Scott Kiloby
Many on the spiritual path rightfully long for a sudden point in time when a shift happens
By David Whyte
When your eyes are tired, the world is tired also
With David Ellzey
to fashion universes out of emptiness
By Louise Erdrich
Leave the Dishes
By Jack Kerouac
We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.
With Science and Nonduality
The CDC recommendations, in a language we can all understand
By Matthew Fox
A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century
By Fred LaMotte
Just a murmur whose poor thoughts won't reach the edge of the page.
By Lynn Ungar
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?
With Sea Stars
Sea Stars is the musical collaboration of Kurt Baumann and Katie Gray.
By Shawn Radcliffe
“Some of his poems are as if he’s consoling God for what’s happened to his creation”
By Chameli Ardagh
What a kindness she showers upon me, not letting me skip any steps, or leave not even one stone unturned.
Your life is your life, don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
By Ellen Emmet
There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself
All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,
By Thomas Merton
With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success
Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,
By John O'Donohue
We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.
When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.
By Tom Hirons
Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways
By Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
By Derek Walcott
Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma
By Master Hongzhi
Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.
You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.
At the 2018 SAND Conference, David Ellzey physically and wordlessly tells the story that resolves the seeming paradox of being both human and transcendent.
By Denise Levertov
We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...
Today I gave up on healing my trauma
By Peter Jezard
Music is created from energetic patterns of tonal and rhythmic interval. It is the ratio of these intervals…
image by Android Jones Where will I find you? Where will I find you, my friend? In an accusing forest…
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system.…
By Jennifer Welwood
My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.
By Surendra
Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?
By Aldous Huxley
from "Island" by Aldous Huxley Somewhere between seeing and speaking, somewhere Between our soiled and…
That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now…
By Fernando Pessoa
By Fernando Pessoa (writing under the heteronym Alberto Caeiro) The astonishing reality of things Is…
By Rajeev Kurupati
By Rajeev Kurupati The 13th century Persian mystic, Rumi, expresses a distinction between the two selves…
Happy are those who know: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from that source alone, the Infinite…
proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes - gifted with…
French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…
By Mansur al-Hallaj
I witnessed my Maker with my heart’s eye. I asked, ‘Who are You?’ He answered, 'You!’ For You one cannot…
By William Stafford
by William Stafford Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining…
By Kabir Helminski
There's something beautiful about being together with a group of people whose main interest is understanding…
How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of…
By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Written after Ellen Bass’s poem of the same name. To trust life, that is the thing. To trust it even…
by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?…
by Seng-ts’an (China, 529 - 606) Translated by Richard B. Clarke The Great Way is not difficult for…
Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem, reminds us that the rhythms and sounds of the spoken word can…
By Alain Joly
Here is a beautiful prayer composed by Adi Shankara around the 8th century. These three verses, meant…
By Jeannie Zandi
Now that you have moved into my heart, taken the doors off their hinges and removed the windows, glass,…
By Dhyana Stanley In spiritual circles, even in the non-dual community, the term ‘humanness’ sometimes…
What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows That…
Resa Abbasi, A Sleeping Woman. by Philip Brown SUFISM IS A wisdom teaching grounded in Primordial Reality.…
Native of eternity. At home in infinity. Breathing immortality. Let these words sing in every cell.…
Continuous Awakening by Dorothy Hunt Continuous awakening belongs to only THIS! that is already continuously…
The Logical Song When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,A miracle, oh it was beautiful,…
There is no self to help. The best self-help advice of all. When you try to 'help' the 'self' you reinforce…
photo: Caras Ionut BY JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see,…
“I came into the unknown and stayed there unknowing rising beyond all science. I did not know the door…
“Today, take each step with courage!” Or, take each step without courage. It really doesn’t matter.…
Poet Fred LaMotte (aka Alfred K. LaMotte) is an adjunct professor of world religions and an interfaith…
Painting by spiritual artist, Byron Tik Please, don't talk to me about 'Pure Awareness' or 'Dwelling…
Photo by © Cecil Whitt by John O’Donohue No one knew the name of this day; Born quietly from deepest…
arriving in the middle where all plots suspend the caravan of loose magic rolls into town bumping along…
i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream…
by Elyse Poppers This simple and beautifully book is the culmination of artist Elyse Poppers's search…
by Danna Faulds There is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado.…
by Danna Faulds Teach me what I cannot learn alone. Let us share what we know, and what we cannot fathom.…
Photo by Bart ten Berge In the quiet stream, I swim gently. The murmur of the water lulls my heart.…
Homage to the state of great bliss! Concerning what is called Mahamudra All things are your own mind.…
English version by Stephen Batchelor If something has an essence– How can it ever change Into anything…
by Rainer Maria Rilke Center of all centers, core of cores, almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--…
by Danna Faulds Why wait for your awakening? The moment your eyes are open, seize the day. Would you…
by Francesca Mariano (participant at SAND17, Italy) Whirling, whirling Reality is blurry As I remain…
by Francesca Mariano Where does it come from? Spirit divine Where does it come from? Spirit of sound…
by Rainer Maria Rilke Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it disappears.…
Andrei Tarkovsky, Instant Light - The Culturium “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest, the one who…
Through every relationship we are only ever trying to meet The One. Which means, meeting ourselves.…
Enlightenment absorbs this universe of qualities.When that merging occurs, there is nothingbut God.…
All your beliefs and constructs. Dare the wild unknown. Here in this terrifying freedom, Naked before…
Rejoicing in every breath,There, there is your meditation hall.Cherish those times of absorption—Rocking…
He is the great unifier, but not in the way he imagines. He will unify those who agree with him. He…
Sting of a wasp Rip of a nail A razor’s slice The needle’s plunge. A piercing word A stab of betrayal…
Sufism is a discipline, a methodology, for enhancing and refining spiritual perception. The human being…
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some…
By Dr. Lorin Roche I first met the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra in 1968, when I was 18 and working in a physiology…
by Lorin Roche Enter these turning points In the play of respiration and expiration, Where the rhythms…
For silence is not God, nor speaking; fasting is not God, nor eating; solitude is not God, nor company;…
love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a…
photo: Fernand Hick Deep inside of each one of us is light that is utterly peaceful and quiet. It is…
This, I’ve discovered, is true knowledge— Those who scramble to get into a boat Sink like a stone midstream,…
photo: Song Young Lee Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form. Listen, it cannot be heard - it is…
photo: Adrian Donoghue This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like…
Thou wert absorbed in Thine Own Self, hidden from me; I passed whole days in seeking Thee out But when…
May the touch of your skin Register the beauty Of the otherness That surrounds you. May your listening…
In the End: The Beginning By Jay Ramsay There is something in the end there is no avoiding That is more…
It is only the revelation of You as the Infinite that is endlessly new and eternally beautiful in us…
By Venerable Lama Gendun Rinpoche Happiness can not be found through great effort and willpower, but…
Love does not always feel safe because love is pure potential and pure presence and in pure presence…
SAND is honored to publish the new book "Two the Love Story of One" by Prasanna. In the Ocean of Love…
Let’s not commit to a future together.
Today in the market place, I will love you in the lemons and caress you in the smooth-skinned apple.…
By Jeff Foster When you awaken, what disappears is your interest in maintaining a consistent 'image'.…
image by Dina Belenko between clouds and abyss the garment of self is sewn with the patient enemy time…
image by Christian Wig row row row the boat I listened at the bankless river that no longer flows for…
By Newcomb Greenleaf
Buddhism and mathematics two paths to our sacred number maverick mathematician / vajrayana Buddhist…
When God comes in your house it is only by your invitation, but even your invitation is God's, for she…
image: jae youn If it is not inherently permitted, why is it happening? We can’t say why; all we can…
image: Ursula Abresch The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high…
Now is the time. Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. Now, why not consider A lasting…
image by F Hick How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thing…
photo by Juliana Nan Place everything you can perceive— Everything you can See, Hear, Smell, Taste,…
image: Tanya Markova You, you only, exist. We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that…
Always we hope someone else has the answer. some other place will be better, some other time it will…
Image by Andre Ermolaev The 'I' that floats along the wave of time, From a distance I watch him. With…
art by CAMERON GRAY (parablevisions.com) "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are…
Photo by Ursula Abresch Having trodden the path for cycles uncountable, Having crossed the ocean of…
When you shift your focus from what is absent to what is present, from what is missing to what has been…
photo © Olinda Coutinho Turn off your mind relax and float down stream It is not dying, it is not dying…
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