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Inspiration & Insights
Noteworthy Articles and Interviews:
- Best of You Today article containing an interview of James Baraz: "Do You Have Fear of Happiness?"
- Huffington Post article by James Baraz: "Can We Afford Joy in a World of Suffering?"
- Awakening Joy as featured in Dr. Christiane Northrup's January e-Letter
- New Dimensions Radio interview with James Baraz: "Joy and Happiness Are an Inside Job"
- In Conversation with Qi Gong Master Mingtong Gu
- Kate Beeders' interview with Jason Baraz on Blog Talk Radio
Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
by John Makransky
Someone may first take interest in spiritual practice to improve her life. But practice doesn't just improve your life — it also newly defines the meaning of your life.... When anyone, anywhere, learns to abide in such loving wisdom, they generate a zone of refuge and protection that encircles all those around them. They become a force to remake this world into a place of deep mutual reverence and appreciation. To learn to embody such wise love, and to act from there for the sake of all, is the greatest gift we can give to our families, communities and world.
One Place to Begin
by John Daniel
You need a reason, any reason—skiing, a job in movies,
the Golden Gate Bridge.
Take your reason and drive west, past the Rockies.
When you're bored with bare hills, dry flats, and distance,
stop anywhere.
Forget where you thought you were going.
Rattle through the beer cans in the ditch.
If there's a fence, try your luck—they don't stop cows.
Follow the first hawk you see, and when the sagebrush
trips you, take a good look before you get up.
The desert gets by without government.
Crush juniper berries, breathe the smell, smear your face.
When you wonder why you're here, yell as loud
as you can and don't look behind.
Walk. Your feet are learning.
Admit you're afraid of the dark.
Soak the warmth from scabrock, cheek to lichen.
The wind isn't talking to you. Listen anyway.
Let the cries of coyotes light a fire in your heart.
Remember the terrible song of stars—you knew it once,
before you were born.
Tell a story about why the sun comes back.
Sit still until the itches give up, lizards ignore you,
a mule deer holds you in her eyes.
Explain yourself over and over. Forget it all
when a scrub jay shrieks.
Imagine sun, sky, and wind the same, over your
scattered white bones.