Marking the end of one year and the beginning of another is fun. It’s a birthday celebration. It’s a salute to past accomplishments and future hopes. But when you get right down to it, everything really is about now. It…

Like any season, the holidays can be a time for rest and contemplation…or a time of trial. We may get a break from work, but what awaits us at home is not always restful or fun. Holidays may mean we…

The subject of broken things has come up a lot lately. Someone I know broke a piece of art. Someone else broke a promise. Another suffers from a broken heart. A dream is broken, shattered into pieces. Who’s to blame?…

Don Miguel has reminded us often that the mind is a mirror, but it’s good to have that lesson repeated now and then. Let me show you why. Imagine a place with no mirrors, where you couldn’t see what you…

Like me, you’re probably still holding on to odd bits of knowledge from high school. You might still be able bring up names of capitol cities, or recall who was U.S. President in 1881. You might randomly think of a…

Heat and drought. Fire and flood. Melting polar caps. Rising seas. Pollution and pandemics.…sounds like business as usual in the ongoing evolution of a planet. Transformations like these have been going on since Earth began. When things get way out…

Independence Day is being celebrated this month in the U.S. Other countries do the same thing for the same reasons. They pay tribute to past revolutions and celebrate the end of hostile occupations. Surviving generations honor the day their ancestors…

Parents sometimes ask me how they can impart this teaching to their children. Don Miguel has often been asked the same question. Every spiritual teacher has been asked something like it, many, many times. How soon can I teach this…

Parents sometimes ask me how they can impart this teaching to their children. Don Miguel has often been asked the same question. Every spiritual teacher has been asked something like it, many, many times. How soon can I teach this…

Many years ago, I had a friend who was a big part of my life and my family’s life. One day, however, she decided not to be my friend anymore. The reason she me gave was confusing at the time.…