Parabola Magazine

Parabola Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2018: Wealth

April 29, 2018By Parabola Editors

Parabola Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2018: Wealth

Repairing the Fabric of the World, A Conversation with Jonathan F.P. Rose

January 10, 2018By Parabola Editors

A conversation with civic visionary Jonathan F.P. Rose

Lie and Glorious Adjective, an Excerpt from an Interview with Peter Brook

October 31, 2017By Parabola Editors

What effect does [wearing a mask] have on the person wearing it?

Dance Around The Golden Calf by Emil Nolde

Worshipping Illusions: An Interview with Marion Woodman

June 22, 2017By Parabola Editors

In the Summer of 1987, Parabola sat down for an exchange with Marion Woodman on the subject of addiction.

The Unasked Question, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith

June 9, 2017By Parabola Editors

A classic quest seen anew

Yu Xuanji, “At Home in the Summer Mountains,” translated by Jane Hirschfield

May 26, 2017By Parabola Editors

A poem by Yu Xuanji from the Winter of 1994.

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 50

May 25, 2017By Parabola Editors

A poem by Walt Whitman in our Summer Issue, Happiness.

Parabola: The Search for Meaning : Free Complete Digital Index, 1976-2017

May 24, 2017By Parabola Editors

The Gurdjieff Foundation of Illinois has generously assembled a free searchable index for Parabola magazine readers.

Riding Out at Evening, by Linda McCarriston

May 9, 2017By Parabola Editors

A poem by Linda McCarriston

Providence, by A. R. Ammons

May 9, 2017By Parabola Editors

A short poem by A. R. Ammons

What is the miraculous? Our first thought may be that it concerns a supernatural and sensational event. And yet this Summer 2018 issue of Parabola reveals that the most ordinary action—digging a garden or cooking a meal or making art—becomes sensational when it is performed with mindful awareness of what we are doing. Any action may be automatic or creative, repetitious or truly alive, participating in the life that is happening in the instant: “The situation is completely different when my action is not a repetition but something new, an action that can only take place in the present moment to respond to a need that I recognize right now,” writes Jeanne de Salzmann in this issue. Read more>

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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