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May 2015

May 10, 2015
It was a few hours after my daughter was born, and I was sitting in...

April 2015

April 25, 2015
I recently listened to a podcast with a great riff by the author Tim Kreider...
April 13, 2015
Successful people tend to be highly sexed. ~Napolean Hill Have you ever read Napolean Hill’s...

March 2015

March 29, 2015
What do you do when it feels like your prayers are going into a deep,...
March 17, 2015
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never...
March 02, 2015
In the United States, we place a premium on being happy. (Cue the Pharrell Williams...

February 2015

February 17, 2015
If you’re even a casual football fan, you probably know by now that the New...
February 06, 2015
I’ve always been fascinated by the simple edict found at in the New Testament to...

January 2015

January 25, 2015
There’s an article in a recent issue of Rolling Stone called “Being Bill Murray”. It...
January 14, 2015
God’s plan for your life isn’t a map you see all at once, but a...

December 2014

December 31, 2014
You may know the author Napoleon Hill because of his book Think and Grow Rich....
December 20, 2014
I am a runner and four or five days a week, in the dim early...
December 15, 2014
His name is Johnny and in his daydreams we meet regularly in Washington Square Park, not far...
December 01, 2014
Some books and authors try to define the nature of God and Lord knows I...

November 2014

November 25, 2014
I wrote here last year about a Thanksgiving prayer you can say all-year round. And...
November 12, 2014
I consider myself a spiritual guy. Though I’m a lapsed Catholic, I believe in God....

October 2014

October 31, 2014
What do you do if you’re a man of the cloth and have a UFO-related...
October 22, 2014
Mark Twain, famed humorist and writer of the classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and...
October 07, 2014
I once read a story about a singer who was asked what the best advice...

September 2014

September 24, 2014
Are you a fellow participant in the rat race? If you’re like me, and regularly...
September 11, 2014
How often do you pray? I’ve always been fascinated by the Muslim religion and its adherents...

August 2014

August 26, 2014
At any moment, I usually have seven or eight books in various states of completion—but...
August 13, 2014
Is a city environment detrimental to a rich spiritual life? As someone who commutes to...

July 2014

July 30, 2014
The problem is that we have lost religion—in the deep meaning of the word. We...
July 21, 2014
Are you familiar with StoryCorps? It’s a nonprofit group that records people telling stories about...
July 10, 2014
I’ve been working on-and-off in New York City for much of the past two decades...

June 2014

June 24, 2014
A version of this post originally appeared about three years ago at Elephant Journal and...
June 13, 2014
Becca Chopra is my go to-person when it comes to learning about the chakras, the...
June 06, 2014
Is it possible that our senses are dulled by our daily routine? You know, the...

May 2014

May 28, 2014
Each morning I do a little reading as part of my spiritual practice. And over...
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