Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart by Ram Dass

These are some of my favorite passages from Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart by Ram Dass  “Over and over, he conveyed, with humor and stories and quotes, a shift from the Western achievement model of  “making it happen” and “just doing it” to quieting the mind and being in the […]

Spirituality, and the Creative Process: Based on the Groundbreaking Research of Oscar Janiger, M.D

These were my favorite passages from an interesting book by Dr. Oscar Janiger,M.D. “Seven of the volunteers were social workers in the fields of rehabilitation and youth counseling or were state consultants or training advisors. There were 2 chiropractors as well. Eleven scientists included mathematicians, physicists, computer programmers, logistics specialists, communications/space technology workers, and postdoctoral […]

My Spiritual Journey by the Dalai Lama

These are some of my favorite passages from reading notes by the Dalai Lama himself. He asserts, however, that he is “no one special” but “a human being” like everyone else. Meeting him calls many certainties into question, for his “human” dimension does not exhibit the ordinary limits of our condition; I have often wondered […]