Buddhism promises that change is possible for all of us. We all have the potential to awaken. This is the central message of the Buddha’s life and teachings. While it can be inspiring to read about ...

Many healers believe that what we call a broken heart may actually be the beginning of a profound inner awakening. The Persian poet and mystic Rumi once wrote, “Where there is ruin, there is hope for ...

Many years ago, I attended some meetings of a spiritual group whose ideas interested me. I liked the teacher and author who had started the group. I thought his theories were very clear and ...

When asking Joseph Goldstein, one of the three original founding teachers of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, who turned 80 this May, what first launched his commitment to Buddhism, he spoke ...

Pope Leo XIV, flanked by Cardinal Jose Tolentino de Mendonca, right, shows the apostolic letter on education before celebrating a Mass for the opening of the academic year of the Pontifical University ...

I left my Catholic comprehensive school overstuffed with religion, quickly distancing myself from the church, but I often felt something was spiritually missing within me. For many reasons growing up ...