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By almost every measurable standard, life has never been easier. Hunger, exposure to the elements, and premature death from once-common diseases have receded to historic lows for much of the world. Information that used to require a library and a

Almost every spiritual tradition warns against craving money. Fewer ask a subtler, less comfortable question: what about simply holding it, long after the craving has stopped? A person can earn honestly, without greed, and still end up sitting on far

Listen to a talk by a teacher in the Advaita Vedanta lineage — Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, or their modern successors — and then listen to a Zen roshi or a Dzogchen lama describe their own realization, and something odd

“You have a right only to action, never to its results. Do not act for the sake of results, and do not incline toward inaction.” This is one of the most quoted lines from the Bhagavad Gita, and also one

Why do we so often act against our own conscious decisions? You genuinely intend to wake early, and yet, morning after morning, something in you overrides that intention. You know a habit isn’t serving you, and still return to it.

Readers who come to the Bible expecting a single, uniform voice often find the Old Testament jarring — tribal warfare, a God described in strikingly human, even jealous terms, laws covering everything from diet to warfare. Read in isolation, without