“There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness.”

—Robert Browning

We live in such confusing times today that, for many, discerning what is truth and what is not can be a real challenge. And how can that not be the case when the line between truth and lies is becoming murkier every day?

Misleading by “telling the truth” has become an evident pattern, to such a great extent that a new term has recently been employed by psychologists to describe it—paltering. Paltering is...

“In the global society we live in today, we are interdependent — we all depend on each other. Therefore, it is no longer appropriate to divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them.’ We need to think of everyone belonging to one humanity.”

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

In today’s world, it can feel like everywhere we look we find disharmony and uneasiness. We may disapprove of the friction, words, attitude, and divisiveness of what people say, which can feel disheartening. The good news is that the...

“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands over our eyes.”

 —Frederic W. H. Myers

 Maybe you’re not aware, but at this exact moment, you are living a default life. The repetitive acceptance and rejection of others’ ideas, beliefs, behaviors, and so on have set your resonance on default, just like in a computer program. The problem here is that, on default, we’ll keep running in circles and repeating the same old stories that bring about the same resonance...