April 6th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
With or without the coronavirus we will all die at some point. Our temporal reality will collapse around us, and we will have to let go of absolutely everything. This chapter of coronavirus in our lives gives us a preview of our final moments which, in turn, demonstrates to us our devotional standing. Taking our own temperature, we must push forward in our devotional life
April 2nd, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Beyond being human and pragmatically cautious, as spiritual aspirants we must be philosophically sober in the face of the coronavirus. Moments like these should cause us to turn inward
March 30th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
We can choose how to digest this gloomy situation. Either we can just worry about what will happen in the future, and lose our peace, or we can take this opportunity to deliberate on the deeper meaning of life. Every cloud has a silver lining and every adverse situation is an opportunity for growth
March 23rd, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
Moments of compassion that bring relief from dread are most deeply felt when we reach out to others
March 16th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
In pursuing the death of the conventional ego we pursue also the flourishing of the serving ego, which is the gateway to genuine spiritual emotion
January 13th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff
I have a dream I cannot stop having. I’m walking in a dark forest toward a lit house.
October 17th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Consumerism will not just magically disappear from its central place in our culture. It needs to be supplanted by something
October 10th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
By Pico Iyer, originally published in The New York Times. When I was 29, I began to guess that happiness &hellip
October 3rd, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
At some point explanations of all and every kind become nothing more than words. They flatten into just symbols on a page, a \"thing\" which must be held in the mind. In that essential sense, they are always secondary to experience
September 30th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Religious communities serve as icons of the Christian life. Today more than ever, we need their witness of poverty, chastity, and obedience to counteract our contemporary excesses
September 12th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
Because mythologies and sciences alike aspire to be true, they are perpetually under revision. Both lapse into dogma when this revision stops. A mythology that has suffered such a fate is often known as a religion. But where they are healthy, both mythology and science are as faithful to the real as their practitioners can make them
July 18th, 2019 | by Harmonist staff
In the hour she is most herself, forgiveness loses herself in the knowledge that never has there been anything to forgive; all has been, is, and always will be well. Then she is initiated with a new name: then we call her mercy
