Praise Brings Peace

Calmly and joyously welcoming whatever life brings to you requires a major shift in understanding, perception, and attitude.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tzu

Try this exercise: Think of the most difficult situation you have ever had to contend with. From the depths of your being, thank God for

A Moving Tribute to Children with Down Syndrome

Today is World Down Syndrome Day, and there’s no better way to commemorate it than this heartwarming video produced by CoorDown, an Italian Down Syndrome advocacy group.

When an expectant mother learned the baby she was carrying had Down Syndrome, she reached out and confessed her anxiety to CoorDown. She asked a simple question: “I’m scared: What kind of life will my child have?” They answered with this

Spring Equinox 2014 Update From Astrologer Laurie Baum

Laurie Baum

If you enjoy astrology, you will like this Spring Equinox update written by my good friend Laurie Baum, MSW, a psychological astrologer and psychotherapist in practice in Encinitas, California.

Laurie writes a free astrological newsletter about how planetary alignments affect our lives on earth. Click here to e-mail Laurie to subscribe at no cost, or visit Laurie’s website and click on “Free Email Newsletter.”

Laurie is a former newspaper

Is It Logical You Are Orphaned Now?

The aphorism, “When we lose God, it is not God who is lost,” is expressed beautifully in this short poem by Kabir, a fifteenth-century mystic poet and saint of India.









UNTITLED POEM
by Kabir, translated by Robert Bly

I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush?
We sense that there is some sort of spirit
that loves birds and animals and the ants—
perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother’s womb.
Is it logical you would be