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If you’d just walked in on this scene unawares, you might think you were in the middle of a shootout at the O.K. Corral, with fallen bodies strewn about. Nope. Just another day of trying to feed my picky eaters. I’ve written before about the joys of getting my dogs to eat. We’ve reached comical… Read more: Shootout at the O.K. Corral

Q: Should serious spiritual seekers limit themselves to a vegetarian diet? It seems to me that if killing is wrong, then killing animals is wrong, too. If you’ve been contemplating spiritual matters long enough, this question inevitably comes up. There are a few different ways to look at it. Your view could be said to… Read more: If You Are Serious About Spirituality, Is It Necessary to Become a Vegetarian?

Q: Life today can often seem so overwhelming. Is there a way to look at our lives that will have it all make more sense? It can help to think of life as a kind of maze. It has a beginning and lots of twists and turns, and even though we all try to see… Read more: Navigating Life’s Maze: A Spiritual Journey to Inner Stillness

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you, too, are shocked and dismayed at the rapid rise in food costs. But there is a way we can all fight back that’s not only good for our wallets but our bodies, too. This is one day’s haul from my grape and berry patch: 3.5 lbs of… Read more: If There Ever Was a Time to Start Growing Your Own Food, That Time is Now.

Q: Sometimes we search for so long we reach a point where we don’t even know what it was we were searching. But there is this longing that remains. What now?  What’s needed is a moment of recognition. Something clicks that makes us feel alive and excited. That’s one of the things that happen when we find an external teacher. We have that sensation of hope that here’s somebody who could take me further down the path. You may not

Q: What does it truly mean to live a spiritual life? When someone first asks for a spiritual life, they are not aware, truly, of what they are asking for. They have read. They have heard. They have decided. But they do not know. And they cannot know at the beginning. Because if they did… Read more: What Are the Spiritual Stages?

It’s true—I’m a gadget person. My father ingrained in me that the right tool for the job is worth the search. Because when you find the right tool, it often is game-changing in time, effort, and enjoyment of the task at hand. It’s no surprise this also applies to my dog equipment. If it doesn’t… Read more: Top 5 Game-Changing Dog Gadgets You Didn’t Know You Needed