Returning from India

For the last month I’ve been at a monastery in India, a beautiful and sacred place, at the small spiritual school that the monks run there. I did a month-long silent retreat – totally unplugged with my attention inward.

One of the first things the dear monks ask you to do is to connect with your Divine, however you conceive the Divine to be. This seeming simple instruction can actually be quite a process if you discover, as many people do, that they don’t know really how to do that (at least,...