Deepak Chopra, a physician, is the author, most recently, of "Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny and the American Dream" and "God: A Story of Revelation." June 27, 2013 Prayer and meditation both come with ...

Within the Christian tradition, there are three principal ways to pray. Each of these ways are umbrellas that cover vast and diverse forms and types of prayer. The first way of prayer is vocal. It’s ...

KATE OLSON, correspondent: It’s early morning along the Pacific Coast. Norman Fischer, a Buddhist priest who’s been teaching meditation for over three decades, opens a day of silent meditation for ...

This is a night of – asking for forgiveness and that usually begins with confession. So, a confession: I was not always someone who cared much for spirituality, for the introspective, meditative side ...

Rabbi Yoel Glick may well be the most important Jewish meditation teacher you have not yet heard of. I say “not yet,” because Yoel’s long and self-imposed obscurity is ending. For more than 30 years, ...

In 1961, weeks after graduating from high school, James Finley rose one morning before dawn and left a note. In defiance of his father, who had refused to allow him to leave, he boarded a bus for the ...

Meditation is the buzzword these days. The current global society seeks various types of remedies to rid itself of stress and achieve inner peace. Meditation is one of them. But few know the ...

Not long ago, two young children helped me see the Nativity of Jesus in a new way. Their presence in my life made the Christmas story an entirely new experience. When I first started meditating on the ...

For a few weeks as a novice I was a chaplain in a gray jail for kids. I think of it as gray because the boys wore gray sweats and the walls were cinderblock and the air was dead and the quiet ...

"God" is a big word, and there is no one definition of God. If I may attempt a definition, God is a powerful source of wisdom beyond anything we can understand. God is the living energy/spirit that ...