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

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

Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.

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.

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

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.