The night I came face to face with God was sweet and yet ordinary enough. It had been one of those glorious high pressure Indian summer days in September and Shya and I decided that after our work was done we would head down to...
I keep a feather in my eyeglass case. I used to have a small, downy, bald eagle feather but that one flew away without my noticing it. I treasured it for a year and a half before it’s departure. I guess it was ready for...
My dad’s memory loss had progressed. Although it had been less than three months since I had seen him last, when Shya and I came to visit, it quickly became clear that Dad’s short-term memory had gotten even shorter. On the first morning of my visit,...
Click here for more information or to purchase this book One way to access the moment is to truly hear what others are saying. If you listen newly to each individual conversation, the act of listening can shift your life instantaneously. It does this by pulling...
An excerpt from Being Here, Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment Click here for more information or to purchase this book Shya and I went to Bali, Indonesia for the first time as speakers for an Earth Conference, and it was there that we met Oka one day,...
In the late 80’s we lived for the better part of two years at a meditation center in Northern Italy. The Villa Volpe where the center was housed is still there, but the International Academy of Meditation is long gone as we all dispersed out...
It was a late Saturday afternoon in Cambridge, England and we only had ten minutes remaining in our seminar for the day. The group sat before us, faces upturned, looking to us for direction, inspiration, or something else. The conversation had stuttered to a stop...
An excerpt from Working on Yourself Doesn't Work Note from Ariel and Shya: We originally wrote Greener Pastures in 2007 and we included it in Working on Yourself Doesn’t Work when McGraw-Hill republished it in 2009. As we move through the restrictions that the pandemic...
Have you ever realized that the choices you make every day – little ones – are more than simple threads that are woven together to make up the fabric of your life? These twistings and turnings of fate direct you onward to an ever-expanding destiny...
I once asked a salesman at B&H Photo, one of the largest photographic equipment stores in the world, “Which digital camera is best?” Of course, that’s a loaded question, but at the time, I was in the midst of upgrading my digital camera. The salesman looked...