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A biker gang president thought I’d just gotten out of prison. I hadn’t—but correcting him seemed like a very bad idea. Yoga considers truthfulness a moral principle, so was I obligated to set him straight?

For several minutes, I was completely convinced that a hillside in the English countryside was covered in enormous white plastic bags. They were sheep. Yoga philosophy has a lot to say about why we can look directly at reality—and still fail to see what’s actually there.

How do you tell the difference between real news and fake news when everyone insists they’re telling the truth? The Bhagavad Gita suggests looking beyond the message to the qualities of the messenger—and offers a surprisingly practical way to do it.

What does imagining a better Washington, D.C. have to do with bhakti-yoga? More than you might think. Both social movements and spiritual traditions use art, imagination, and a vision of what could be to begin transforming what is.

Can the universe love us back? A photograph of a dear friend becomes the starting point for a meditation on freedom, personhood, and one of bhakti-yoga’s most profound claims: that ultimate reality is personal.

The headlines can leave us feeling discouraged. Yet acts of extraordinary courage are happening all around us. The Bhagavad Gita suggests that courage isn’t something we manufacture—it’s something we learn to recognize and reconnect with.

Feelings can be powerful, persuasive—and profoundly misleading. Yoga philosophy offers a practical framework for testing our conclusions, separating emotional certainty from genuine knowledge.

How do we stay emotionally healthy in a world that keeps breaking our hearts? The Bhagavad Gita offers a third way—one that doesn’t ask us to suppress our feelings or be consumed by them, but to transform them into wise action.

The Declaration of Independence proclaims that “all are created equal.” But what kind of equality can actually support justice? Yoga philosophy offers a surprising answer—one that begins not with politics, but with the nature of the self.