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The heart flag is ubiquitous throughout the city.[i] It is a symbol of hope in difficult times. So was the Silent Minute.

As a teenager, I asked my father why he chose to follow in the religion of our Hindu ancestors and he told me 鈥渋t doesn鈥檛 really matter to me which religion a person follows, because religion is like a mountain, once you get to the top, the view is t

According to a rabbinic story in the Talmud, a pagan once asked Hillel, the first-century Jewish sage and contemporary of Jesus, to teach him the whole Torah while he stood on one foot.

As 鈥淚 have a dream鈥� is Martin Luther King鈥檚 immortal phrase, so 鈥淚 can鈥檛 breathe鈥� is George Floyd鈥檚. Both are gifts to the world. The first speaks to the aspiration of the human spirit, the second to its crushing.

Rac路ism - prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. (Oxford dictionary) That is the problem.

I鈥檝e been very grateful lately for those who engage in what I鈥檝e come to call the ministry of checking in. If you have someone like that in your life, you are truly blessed.

I鈥檝e been thinking a lot lately about Ordinary Time 鈥� the periods of the Catholic liturgical calendar outside of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter. It seems to me that Ordinary Time is not given its due.

I鈥檇 like to talk about how several guidelines can play out in everyday Zen practice. According to the teachings of the Buddha we are whole and complete just as we are. No need to add anything in or take anything away.

Badi Shams recently wrote a beautiful piece in the Times 91原创 about the spiritual roots of economic disenfranchisement 鈥� 鈥� Spiritual solutions needed for economic problems鈥� . (Published May 16 th ).

We were carrying on with our lives in our usual ways, when all of a sudden, this mega-blast hit us; sort of like a hundred-foot tsunami that no one saw coming. And we all found ourselves gasping for air.