The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.