Archive

The Demands of the Way, by Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch

Epicycles

Days with Michel Conge, Part One, by Rami Kalfon

Essays

Riding Out at Evening, by Linda McCarriston

Poetry

Meditation and Service: A Conversation with Nipun Mehta

Conversations

My Journey to Qigong Master, by Robert Peng

Essays

Paths are Made by Walking, by Nipun Mehta

Essays

Finding Joy: The Science of Happiness, by Patty de Llosa

Essays

Parabola Podcast, Episode 16: “Mythic Origins”

Podcast, Podcasting

Stephen Weiss, MD, portrait of Brother David Steindl-Rast, Mt. Saviour Monastery, Elmira, NY

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The only point where one can start to talk about anything, including death, is where one finds oneself. And for me this is as a Benedictine monk. In the rule of St. Benedict, the momenta […]

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Housework as spiritual practice, from a Sufi master

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

“The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning. The great container, the Self, is paradoxically both male and female […]

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

This story is so old we don’t know who told it or who it’s about, except that it speaks to all of us. We no longer know if it was a “he” or “she” at the center of the story. […]

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong

One bright spring day, Parabola met with Karen Armstrong in her suite at the Parker Meridian hotel in Manhattan. The petite, friendly 62-year-old British ex-nun, arguably the most influential commentator on religion in the English-speaking […]

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Archive

The Demands of the Way, by Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch

Let it Be, by Tracy Cochran

Days with Michel Conge, Part One, by Rami Kalfon

Riding Out at Evening, by Linda McCarriston

Providence, by A. R. Ammons

Meditation and Service: A Conversation with Nipun Mehta

My Journey to Qigong Master, by Robert Peng

Paths are Made by Walking, by Nipun Mehta

Finding Joy: The Science of Happiness, by Patty de Llosa

Parabola Podcast, Episode 16: “Mythic Origins”

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong