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Forgiveness 2018, by Tracy Cochran
Why not begin 2018 with forgiveness? And why not start with us? Forgiveness, like gratitude, is a practice that can be cultivated one moment at a time.
Below the Surface
How do you find freedom in not knowing?
On Being Nobody…and No One, by Tracy Cochran
How deeply we fear being nobody. One way to think of the ego is as a defense against pain, particularly the pain of being no one.
Parabola: The Search for Meaning : Free Complete Digital Index, 1976-2018
The Gurdjieff Foundation of Illinois has generously assembled a free searchable index for Parabola magazine readers.
Let it Be, by Tracy Cochran
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me. Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Tashi & The Monk, Directed by Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke
On a remote mountaintop a brave social experiment is taking place.
Alice Coltrane’s “Om Shanti”
In the early 1980s, jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane devoted herself to the Hindu tradition, adopting the name Swamini Turiyasangitananda and established the 48-acre Sai Anantam Ashram outside Los Angeles.
Jack Kerouac’s Golden Eternity
Jack Kerouac was a literary iconoclast in the mid-1950s, and sent the text above in a letter to his first wife, a decade after their marriage had been annulled.
Endpoint from “The Divine Feminine,” Spring 2016
Despite a growing awareness of the Divine Feminine, women remain ineligible to head many major religious groups and institutions […]