Spiritual Principles in Action, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Glastonbury Festival, England, 1971. Photograph by Paul Townsend A Sufi master on taking responsibility for our world In answer to a question from a thirty-one-year-old person, “What advice do you have for people my age in dealing with a world…
Gastronomy in Ancient China, by Donald Harper
Photo by Tim Chow (@timchowdoingthings) Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating. —Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, M.F.K. Fisher trans. The beginnings of Chinese gastronomy (by which I mean…
And So On, by Kent Jones
I wanted to write a piece about the obsessive focus on “the present” and how it obscures the Now. Here is how I decided to begin. For the last few years, I’ve had conversation after conversation with close friends about…
Parabola Podcast: Wellness
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the Spring 2021 issue of Parabola, Wellness, including an exploration of the world’s healing water goddesses and a practical guide to awakening awareness. Your thoughts about yourself, experiences, and perceptions continually arise and…
Desire for Truth, by Roger Hawkins
Robert Orgera, Photograph of a Statue of Buddha, in Provocative Proximity of a Cage (Wikimedia Commons) One day, as a small child, I was struck by the wonder of how amazing it is that we just show…
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