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Timeless wisdom for a focused life.

Teachings on awareness, energy, and purpose — alongside the retreats, talks, and travels that fill the rest of the journey. Drawn from ten years as a Hindu monk and decades of teaching, written to be applied to your life today.

Awareness & the MindFeb 6, 20161 min

Awareness the Dog

Your awareness is like a little puppy. If you let it do what it wants and let it run around where it likes then when it grows up it will be uncontrollable.

LearnFeb 4, 20162 min

3 Business Lessons I learnt in a Berlin restaurant

Last year in November I was invited to Berlin, Germany, to speak to the Berlin chapter of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). The night before the event the board members of the chapter invited…

Insights on LifeFeb 3, 20161 min

Facing & Understanding Challenges

"All seekers accept as their own karma all experiences that come, however harsh or difficult, never uttering a syllable of complaint. Theirs is the power of surrender, accepting what is as it is, not…

LearnFeb 2, 20161 min

Monastic Life to Entrepreneurship

Joe DeSena, founder of Spartan, interviews me on his Spartan Up Podcast about monastic life, affirmations, life's purpose and more.

Awareness & the MindFeb 1, 20161 min

How long does this high last?

Those of you who have been following my blog know that I have just returned from conducting Enstasy, my meditation confluence in Kerala, South India. One of the participants who had returned home to…

Spiritual AdventuresJan 26, 20164 min

Experiencing Kerala on Enstasy

Day Three of Enstasy began, similar to yesterday (day 2), with yoga asana practices just after sunrise with our guest teachers, Robin, Jasmine, and Yvonne. After their morning posture practice,…

Spiritual AdventuresJan 23, 20164 min

Inner and Outer Journey of Enstasy

We began Day Two of Enstasy just after sunrise with yoga asana practices guided by our teachers, Robin, Jasmine, and Yvonne. Each of our guest teachers led their classes from various locations on the…

Spiritual AdventuresJan 10, 20163 min

Enstasy begins!

Day One of Enstasy, our first ever Meditation Confluence, began with a warm welcome to our participants who traveled from far and wide around the globe to dedicate the next eight days of their life…

The Spiritual PathJan 7, 20161 min

Understand the Spiritual Path

There are two things about the spiritual path that are really important for you to be clear on before you embark on this journey. First, is that you have a clear understanding of the philosophy that…

NewsJan 4, 20163 min

A Recap of 2015 - Part 2

The second half of the year was filled with talks taking me from my home in New York to across Australia to the Caribbean, Europe and the around the US. There were a few highlights one of which was…

Photography & TravelJan 3, 20161 min

My Favorite Photos from 2015

Many of you know that I love photography. I did not photograph as much as I normally do in 2015 but from the many places I traveled to I was able to pick out a few of my favorites taken on my iPhone…

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