Any meaningful pursuit of social justice depends on a spiritual principle.
The reason I say this is because the idea of justice depends on the idea of equality. And the idea of equality only works on a spiritual level.
The Spiritual Basis for Social Justice READ MORE
Yoga wisdom tells us that we’re living at a time when we should expect the loudest voices to belong to people who are unhinged, obstinate, deceitful, and adept at insulting others.
The Cure for Incivility READ MORE
For the past five years I’ve had the honor of participating in a local high school’s annual “Yoga Minimester.” It’s pretty awesome: the students spend three days learning about yoga and meditation.
Hari Goes to High School READ MORE
I live inside a site-specific art installation. It’s amazing! It brings a fantastic array of shapes, sounds, colors, textures, drama, and movement together to create a fully immersive experience. It’s breath-takingly beautiful, heart-breakingly tragic, perspicuously
A Cure for Compulsive Scrolling READ MORE
Yoga philosophy begins with the proposition that we are not the material bodies we inhabit; we’re eternal spiritual beings inhabiting temporary material bodies. In his Yoga-sūtra, Patanjali describes the true nature of the self as
The Mad Scientist Experiment READ MORE
I’m cat-sitting for friends who are galivanting around France for a couple of weeks. Talk about an invitation you can’t refuse: taking care of Mendel the cat is an opportunity for me to have something
I Went for a Walk. Or So It Seemed. READ MORE
I was reflecting back on my life as a teenager the other day; on how it seems as if it were a previous life rather than an early chapter of this one; on how reckless
Some Thoughts About Awakening Our Spiritual Vision READ MORE
It’s said that we live in an unfortunate season of time; a time when simple living and elevated thinking give way to complicated entanglements and diminished reasoning, when purity gives way to pollution, mercy gives
The Power of Truthfulness READ MORE
What I remember most was how quickly I was able to accept what was happening. An eastward swing down Porter Street, a long residential mediary between two busy thoroughfares, offers an easy and enjoyable tree-lined descent to cyclists with
Thoughts about uncertainty and surrender READ MORE
After a couple of weeks of watching the competing narratives coming out of the impeachment inquiry, I felt inspired to sit with the question: how do we know what’s true? Conventional wisdom tells us that
How do we know what’s true? READ MORE
