Articles on Nature

  • Deep Peace, Deep Love, Deep Joy

    Deep Peace, Deep Love, Deep Joy

    Today’s post is by Patience Robbins For awhile now I have had a deep yearning to empower young adults. As I see the state of our world, I am so concerned that they will be prepared and ready for what they will need to address. This is such a profound longing in my heart that I pray…

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  • Human freedom

    Human freedom

    The secret of human freedom is to act well, without attachment to the results. ~Bhagavad Gita  

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  • The Pace of Nature

    The Pace of Nature

    Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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  • To Be in Harmony

    To Be in Harmony

    To be in harmony is to be in a conscious and loving relationship with what is. ~Jean-Yves LeLoup  

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  • Ilia Delio on Exploring the Cosmos [with video]

    Ilia Delio on Exploring the Cosmos [with video]

    Excerpted from Ilia Delio’s Saturday morning lecture on April 30 One day, I was sitting in my little apartment in Washington DC, and I knew myself to be loved by God, and in that love, I felt myself really free. And so I didn’t have to look a certain way, or be a certain way.…

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  • If You Wish To Know

    If You Wish To Know

    If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. —Eido Tai Shimane Roshi  

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