Tag: awareness

Overmedication of America

April 2, 2009 | 6 comments

I read a book recently, titled, “Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry is medicating a nation,” by Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Barber contends that Americans are horrendously overdosed in psychiatric medicines, and provides

No long drawn out suffering

April 1, 2009 | 3 comments

I struggled with a little health issue for a few days recently that ordinarily would vanish with a short prayer. It was not a big deal, but I got a bit bothered by why it hadn’t yielded quickly this time.

The unreality of matter

March 25, 2009 | 5 comments

A reader sent in the following quote: Max Planck, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, considered the father of Quantum Theory, made the following statement when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics: As a man

Are you in a ready position?

March 23, 2009 | 2 comments

I learn many spiritual lessons from playing tennis. One of them is the importance of being in the “ready position.” The ready position is a combination of proper footing, racket grip, alertness and responsiveness to the ball coming at you.

Critical moments

December 16, 2008 | 3 comments

Have you ever been distracted for an instant, and then made a big mess of things? It was the funniest thing. I was making whipping cream for pumpkin pie while everyone sat at the table after dinner waiting. We had