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"I AM": Discovering the True Nature of Humanity
“What’s wrong with the world, and what can we do about it?” These are the two seemingly vague and yet deeply complex questions that director Tom Shadyac sought to answer when he se…
13 Choices We Must Make to Honor Love
The holidays—or as I like to call them, the holy-days—are upon us: a special season marked by traditions and time with loved ones. This is an especially beautiful time of year for …
3 Steps to Make Life Count
Consider the story of Joanne: Although older than most of her peers at nursing school, Joanne looked like any other nursing student. Her personal journey, however, had been more di…
5 Essential Life Skills, Part 1: Remember Who You Are
This is part one of a series featuring the Five Essential Life Skills.Through the course of over 20 years of personal and spiritual growth study and my own personal work, I have id…
5 Things That Opened Me Up to Passionate Love, Post 50
Love is NOT just for young people!If you’re looking for love later in life and thinking, “I want it, but it’s too late, so it’ll never happen,” read on.The advantage of age ov…
5 Ways to Help Your Partner Feel Loved
We are wired for emotional connection, said Jazmin Moral, LCSW-C, a psychotherapist who specializes in working with couples in Rockville, Md. “Love is our foremost and most basic n…
50 Loving Sentiments We Should All Say More Often
All too often, we take the people we love the most for granted: our lovers, family members, friends, and even our children. We forget the enormous power of our words, as we ca…
60 Affirmations to Support You Through Meaningful Life Changes
Studies show that affirmations contribute to our well-being in tangible ways. Dig in to a year’s worth of positive self-talk from Louise Hay, Caroline Myss, Eckhart Tolle, Shakti Gawain, Marianne Williamson, S&H readers, and more.
8 Secrets for Lasting Love
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs…
A Little Appreciation Goes a Long Way!
I was petting one of my cats the other day and enjoying how much he was appreciating the attention. He was purring loudly, rubbing up against me, and making it very clear that he l…
A Purr for Help: How A Rescued Cat Opened My Heart
Nearly broke and pessimistic about the world, journalist Jane Ganahl heart and mind were opened by one abandoned cat.
A Question of Love
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, “Which direction do I go from here?” He responded with another question, “It depends, where do you want to be?” Alice, thinkin…
A Simple Practice to Feel More Love In Your Life
Dear Eve,I’ve been in a few relationships, but I’m not sure if true love was ever part of the equation. I’m single now, and I’m feeling really isolated and alone. I just hate feeli…
All Love is Unconditional
We try to accept substitutes for love and end up still feeling empty. Why? Because… there are no substitutes for love.
Are You a Good Choice as a Partner?
My husband and I met while I was on Maui on vacation and spent the next five months on the phone, back in the pre-Internet days. While “dating” long distance between Maui and Calif…
Are You Spending Too Much Time Together?
Dear Eve,I just started to see someone new. Even though we’ve only been dating about a month, we see each other almost every day and talk on the phone all the time. I really want t…
Be the Partner You Wish to Have
In our quest for wholeness, we often try to make up for our internal emptiness by seeking completion in another. Many of us have taken this to an extreme, believing that fulfillmen…
Big Life Decision? How to Determine What You Actually Want
So you think you know what you want: But are you sure? When I was much younger and pondering having children as a life’s path, my girlfriend who had children said, “You should…
Channel Your Inner Child: How to Live with More Joy, Passion, and Love
A few years ago I became an adopted grandma and had a five year old living in my house for awhile. I have to admit that seeing the world through the eyes of a five year old is an e…
Conscious Love: Online Dating for the Spiritually Minded
Writer Jane Ganahl dips her toes into the pool of "conscious singles" looking for love online.
Cultivating Contagious Gratitude
When I walk through my plant nursery, The Sacred Garden, right after we have watered, there is a tangible energy in the air. Everything feels different. When I stop to be observant…
Dating Online: Are You Just In Love With Love?
Dear Eve,I’m only fourteen years old, but I need some help. I have been talking to a girl (also fourteen) on the Internet for two months. We have traded pictures and know for sure …
Discernment - The act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment
This article appeared in our June 2003 issue. The beginning of discernment as a conscious spiritual practice for me came 20 years ago, well before I was a full-time theologia…
Do You Make Yourself Difficult to Love?
When someone says they love you, is your first impulse to argue that they can't?One night when I was 21, a man with curly copper-penny hair told me: I love you.Under the streetligh…
Each Other's Stuff
This article appeared in the Fall 2000 issue of Spirituality & Health. As a teenager working in the theater, I was struck by a scene in Eugene lonesco’s The Bald Soprano. T…
Elizabeth Gilbert on her new novel, "The Signature of All Things"
Charting the border between science and spirituality.What led you to explore the subject of botany? My parents gave me a copy of a book that had belonged to my great…
Emotional Overwhelm? How to Hang In There
Dear Eve,I am so frustrated I feel like giving up. I am struggling in so many areas of my life. My relationship is sort of “so so,” nothing horrible, but nothing to write home abou…
For Love That Lasts
Couples who have celebrated their golden anniversary share tips for a marriage that goes the distance.
From Lust to Love: On the Virtues of Taking It Slow
Dear Eve,I’m trying to get a guy back. This is our "short" history (my mistakes are numbered): I ended a two-year, depressing relationship, and I was on the rebound, not ready for …
Getting Real in the Realm of Love
Once when I broke up with a man, I was struggling with getting over him. When he quickly got engaged to someone else, I was devastated. At the time, I was going to school and confi…
Gift of the Present: How Mindfulness Strengthens Relationships
This morning, I made a decision to eat mindfully. Halfway through my lunch, I suddenly realized that my conscious mind missed the first half of my sandwich. I was typing, un…
Give the Best Present: The Gift of your Presence
Recently I met someone who reminded me about what really matters, someone who inspired a perspective that remade my world anew. And for that reason, I’m so glad I can say yes to th…
God of Love
A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity, and IslamBy Mirabai StarrMonkfish Book Publishing CompanyMirabai Starr has always been drawn to the heart of love that resides at the…
Got Compassion?
Let’s skip the judgment and step into love.Sometimes when I speak to people of the importance of compassion, I see a look in their eyes that I interpret as, Why? All day long we he…
Happily Ever After Starts at the Beginning
I have performed hundreds of weddings and have come to the conclusion (completely unverified) that you can tell a lot about the dynamics of the marriage by how the couple behaves w…
Healthy Choices
I love book titles. I suspect it is because I rarely make time to read a whole book, so when a book’s title or subtitle is a good reminder of the message within, all I have to do i…
How to Hear the Love Whisperer
A relationship is like a puppy. Everyone wants it when they see it, some of us actually take it home, but only a few can live happily with it. For some, the puppy runs away; for ot…
How to Let Go of Relationship Baggage
Most of us look back on our past relationships and see them as failures. We allow that belief to weigh us down, and it becomes the “baggage” we carry forward. We somehow think that…
Lacking Self-Love? Adopt These 7 Habits
As the chocolate buzz of Valentine’s Day fades, I find myself thinking about radical acts of self-love. Over the last week I’ve polled my friends, asking them for their take on the…
Learning to Love
Peggy La Cerra’s “Why Relationships Are So Difficult” ends with a challenge: “Perhaps it’s time for a new approach to the problem [of human selfishness and self-centeredness] — an …
Lessons from the World's Religions: Love and Marriage
Because marriage sets the stage for our most intimate contact with another human being, most of the world’s religions have offered believers guidance on both the why and how married life. As the various faith traditions have encountered modern psychology — and one another — some common understanding have emerged about what a marriage means and how to keep it together, but important differences remain.
Longing for Love
As individuals, we long for it. As human beings, we crave it and in fact we cannot live without it for long. As a culture, we obsess on it.Love.We have a communal dialogue about it…
Love, Withheld
Experiencing the heartache of being disowned, writer Ayesha Mattu reflects on the surprising elasticity of familial relationships.
Navigating the Labryinth of Love
The Chartres Cathedral Labyrinth is a beautiful spiritual pathway originally built into the floor of the French cathedral 800 years ago. The pattern is now used worldwide. The laby…
One Surprising Secret to a Successful Relationship
New research shows that humility is more of an aphrodisiac than you may think
Pets as Gateway Love
Something really wild has been happening to me lately. I find myself falling in love with every animal I see. Seriously, I am talking about all creatures great and small. But reall…
Podcast: Comforting Silence with Mirabai Bush
Mirabai Bush shares revelations about dying and living from her close relationship with Ram Dass and shares a special practice preparing for death.
Poem: Little Lion, Roaming the Cold Golden
The poems and prose in Amanda Torroni's new book, Stargazing at Noon, unfold in moon phases, beginning with a fullness, then purging. This poem, Little Lion, Roaming the Cold Golden, is from the new moon phase.
Real Love is an Ability
Real love is love that is no longer dependent on another person. Instead, love comes from a sense of inner abundance. It’s the natural overflow from a capacity you’ve developed within.
Relationship Resolutions 2012
Ah, the New Year. That wonderful time when we feel like we get to start fresh, renew, redesign, get a grip, set goals, and make New Year’s resolutions. Now is the time we gear up f…
Rose Petal Truffles: A Gift of Love
Try this recipe for an afternoon boost of energy or a gift for one you love.
Self Love as a Practice
We all know there’s great value in loving ourselves. Self acceptance, self esteem, and self compassion can get us through painful times in our lives, help us to bounce back from fa…
Self Talk: Changing Reality One Word at a Time
Recently I was giving a workshop where I spoke about the importance of changing our self-talk. Self-talk is the conversation we hold with ourselves on a continuous basis—and usuall…
Shatter Your Illusions: Practice Acceptance of What Is
Recently a business associate wrote me an e-mail complaining that I hadn’t yet sent him a document he had requested. I explained to him that I had moved offices and changed compute…
Signs of an Ego Battleship Instead of a Relationship
Would you ask your poorest friend for financial advice? While they may be well intentioned, they likely don’t have the skills to make good suggestions when it comes to money. Inste…
Simple Ways Towards the Sacred
Simple Ways Toward the SacredBy Gunilla Norris“God” is only a word that we use, thinking we know what it means, according to Gunilla Norris, a much-esteemed writer, meditation teac…
Spring Cleaning for Home and Heart
We are all familiar with the concept of “spring cleaning” as a time for going through our physical belongings and removing the clothes that no longer fit, letting go of things we n…
Start with Heart: 3 Steps to a Healthier Relationship
While practicing self-observation recently, I noticed that my automatic impulse is to retract my energy when something uncomfortable or potentially emotionally painful is going on.…
The 3 Phases of Every Relationship
Seana McGee and Maurice Taylor, married psychotherapists and authors of The New Couple, explain how understanding the phases of your relationship can help you stay in love.Int…
The Art of Detachment
When scientists began contemplating the conquest of space, the first problem they encountered – a problem that had to be solved before they could make any headway at all – was how …
The Four Aspects of Love
Twenty years ago, the Rodney King riots had just exploded in Los Angeles, and the image of a fallen man being beaten by police replayed itself over and over on television sets ever…
The Heart's Original Position
Eight years ago, Smithsonian magazine sent me to Wyoming to write about a Northern Arapaho man named Stanford Addison, who had a growing reputation as a horse trainer. He was noted…
The Laws of Love
The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your DreamsBy Chris PrentissPower PressChris Prentiss has seen the world from both sides: raised by a mother who lived a life of…
The New American LOVE Revolution
“This spiritual renaissance is real and has not stopped. It’s just that it’s growth—and, like all growth, it’s messy.” - Marianne Williamson
The Path to Harmony for Couples
SCENE ONE: My partner and I are in the car on a road trip, having a glorious time. I’m singing along to an old pop tune, rocking out, while he reads his GPS. I see him furrow his b…
The Second Essential Life Skill: Self-Observe
This is part two of a series featuring the Five Essential Life Skills. My last post featured the first of the skills, Remembering Who You Really Are.The second essential life skill…
The Things Called Love
Science is discovering that we share many kinds of love, but they all share roots in an unopenable black box called the limbic brain. Coming to understand what we may never understand about ourselves may allow us to forgive our failures... and to become more loving.
The Two Ingredients of a Real Love Potion
If your mind cringes or your belly flip-flops while you read this, you’re not alone.
Transcending the Sadness of Losing a Loved One
Jagad Guru offers wisdom on how we should direct our love toward the one who will never leave us.
Valentine’s Day: Don’t Seek Love, Be Love
So often when Valentine’s Day is approaching, we all start looking for signs of love outside of ourselves—chocolate, cards, phone calls, flowers, gifts or other sweet sentiments. T…
Video: How Much Can You Love?
Spiritual wisdom teaches that it's impossible to love others if you don't love yourself. On this episode of Conscious Living TV, we visit the beautiful Ananda Ashram in Monroe, New…
Waiting (Gracefully) for Love
In church, I am surrounded by couples. It seems everyone but me and a few other women are snuggled up to someone, even though it’s ninety degrees out, and our building has no…
What are You Waiting For? Ditch the True Love Myth
When it comes to the health of our bodies or it comes to the health of our relationships, many of us are hopeless optimists. We ignore the warning signs that something isn’t right,…
What Are Your Charms?
Several years ago my husband and I decided we wanted to buy a home in a really nice part of Maui. The house we chose was all glass and wood and had a beautiful ocean view. We set o…
What is Real Love?
I recently read an article about the multitude of celebrity break ups that have happened so far in 2015. The article reported, “Couples were breaking up left and right – leaving ma…
What the Woman Who’s Embraced Over 34 Million People Knows About Love
Her real name is Mata Amritanandamayi, but if you’ve ever heard of her, you probably know her as Amma (“Mother”). The name was given to her when she was just a girl because of her …
What’s the Point in Relationships?
Sometimes I hear people question whether it is even possible or realistic to make relationships work. With discouragement they lament, “There is almost no one I know who is i…
When the Grass Is Greener
Having the name Eve is quite an archetype to manage all by itself. The name Eve coupled with running a garden sanctuary and nursery and being a relationship specialist becomes almo…
When Unconditional Love Is Conditional
I was once working with a group of teenagers discussing “integrity agreements,” which I described as “either spoken or unspoken agreements not to hurt each other.” These integrity …
Why Relationships Are So Difficult
On any given day, 1.6 million of us are blogging, 27 million are tweeting, and 1.5 billion are posting on Facebook. We’re emailing during meetings, texting during lectures, and tal…
You Are a Part. Not Apart.
The ideal spiritual practice fosters compassion, justice, love, and a sense of unity.
You are My Valentine. And You, and You…
We all know Valentine’s Day is devoted to showing our loved one(s) a little extra attention, devotion, and sweetness. But what if we raise the ante and direct our love to everythin…
