Kim Eng is a seeker, and now a teacher, who became Eckhart Tolle’s intimate partner. How has this power couple of enlightenment transcended the disagreements that sabotage us in romance?

Eng answered that question as she conducted a Q&A with her spiritually-famous lover about the lessons of their relationship. The dialogue is startling for its courage [...]

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A dude doing a headstand in Times Square and a woman striking a tree pose in the ocean. Meet our meditation junkies!
For the latest Soul’s Code photo contest we asked readers to submit photos of themselves doing their spiritual thing — yoga, pilates, meditation, whatever — anywhere but where we’d expect to typically see them. [...]

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This week’s hottest viral email uses Sarah Palin’s resume to ridicule Republican attack lines
In the section of Soul’s Code called Email Inspirations — look way up, and in the middle of the navigation bar that runs across our banner — we curate viral emails that people are forwarding to friends and family around the world. [...]

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A small business owner writes about returning after the storm
BY SKIP MARTIN — After weaving my way through the maze of road blocks and debris that is Galveston County post-Ike, I finally made it to the Galveston Police checkpoint.  It was more than a week before residents would be allowed to return permanently — just two days [...]

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An astrologer who is also an expert in astronomy wrote a meditation after sleeping outside his California home many nights to seek relief from Indian Summer temperatures

“It started out as an escape from the stuffiness and heat in our solar-cooked house,” says the author. “Then it became more like a vision quest.”
BY HUNTER REYNOLDS — Roofless [...]

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An exerpt from Vaishali’s upcoming book, Wisdom Rising, one woman’s manual for reinvention and realization
PART 1 of 2  — In Taiwan there is a device known as a Taiwanese monkey trap. It is a simple box made of open wooden slats. A banana is placed inside the box, and it is clearly visibly through [...]

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In her upcoming book, Wisdom Rising, Vaishali reveals how the things that happen *to* you are not really *about* You
ADVANCE EXCERPT: PART 2 of 2  — Vedic psychology says you do not have to take their word for it, you can prove it to yourself. Just ask yourself, “like air, fire and water, were emotions [...]

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Part 1 of 4: It was when her voice was devoid of emotion that I feared her the most

BY SUEANN JACKSON-LAND — I didn’t know when it started. I still don’t, and probably never will know. My mother changed. Around other people she was cheery, always a bubbly personality. Being the offspring of a [...]

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Part 2 of 4: My mother’s first hospitalization for attempting suicide came before I even knew what the word meant

BY SUEANN JACKSON-LAND — I can close my eyes and see myself at around 8 or 9 years old, sitting with my knees scrunched under me on the floorboard of a 1974 Dodge Coronet. The [...]

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Part 4 of 4: My father jokes that I have a league of guardian angels

BY SUEANN JACKSON-LAND — There is, of course, a much more to my story than what I recounted in the first three parts of the Living in fear series published here. It’s taken me 43 years, four months and 16 days [...]

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How I rediscovered myself through Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
BY RAQUEL TAVARES — I recently told my mother that I was tired of all those “self-help” books. Then, shortly after, I bought one again — this time, Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
All this is to say [...]

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Why it’s a wedge issue: Republicans believe that everyone ought to live a moral life — and Democrats believe that, in reality, many of us don’t
BY DAVID RICKEY — News that the unmarried, 17-year-old daughter of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is 5-months pregnant adds yet another dimension to her selection by Republican candidate John McCain. [...]

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My daily practice for accepting myself, and how it opened up my world. Try it yourself. It works!

GUEST COLUMN: LAURA HOLLICK — Facing yourself can sometimes be the scariest thing in the world. It can also be the most liberating!
No one is perfect, and the thought of facing yourself can bring forward all the things [...]

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