Infinite Creativity

Meeting in Transformation

Listening with Intention

What Lies Within

The Source Within

A Spiritual GatheringDAAJI explores the transformative power of group meditation and the phenomenon of collective spiritual consciousness in creating 

The Magic of Group Meditation

STEPHEN MURPHY-SHIGEMATSU discovers profound spiritual insights in the simple act of playing fetch with his dog Lucy, exploring the difficult art of l

Life Lessons from a Dog  and Her Ball

The Heartful Listener – Part SevenCEO and Heartfulness meditation trainer RAVI VENKATESAN continues his Heartful Listener series, weaving together the

Bringing It All Together

UDAY KUMAR explores how a simple word of respect reveals the deeper mysteries of spiritual authority and humility.During this morning’s Dil Se with Da

Hukum - A Word that Opens the Heart

Author and cultural critic CHARLES EISENSTEIN opens a two-part series exploring how virtual substitutes for real experience have created a profound se

Virtual Intelligence

MAUREEN HITIPEUW reflects on founding Single Moms Indonesia and learning that devotion isn't an emotion but a daily choice to show up for others.I nev

Devotion is Action

B. RATHINASABAPATHY and VIJAYA NARESH JUTURU share how the Heartfulness Institute is preserving a tree steeped in legend and ecological significance.A

The Krishna Buttercup Tree

An Art Therapist’s PerspectiveVANESSA PATEL speaks with art therapist SANGEETAPRASAD about how creative expression becomes a language for what’s diffi

Healing Journeys

SARALA UPADHYA reflects on the profound experience of confinement—from astronauts stranded on the International Space Station to our own yearning for 

Creating a New World

The Listening HeartKing Solomon’s Gift and JudgmentRUBY CARMEN retells the biblical story of King Solomon, who asked God for a listening heart and bec

The Listening Heart

Mental Health

The Whole and Its Part

Journaling as Awareness, Grounding, and ReflectionNalini Rajesh shares how journaling serves as a powerful tool for self-discovery and spiritual integ

The Forgotten Art of Journaling

What Is Essential

Fiona Neary describes a dinner at Daaji’s home in India, where meditation under the stars and stories in the garden create a lasting memory that conti

At Home with Daaji

ALANDA GREENE reflects on beauty’s surprising power to shift perspective, open hearts, and call us into reciprocal relationship with the world, beginn

Beauty. Yes. Wow. Thanks.

They crawl, fly, wiggle, and buzz—but we barely notice them. Yet, without invertebrates, life on Earth would come to a standstill. As ecologist B. RAT

Invertebrates: The Silent Majority in Need of Conservation

A meditation on stillnessby DREW D. WESTStillness chosenhas a way of shaping us—it certainly has shaped me.Like a rock in a riveraccepting the water’s

Stillness Chosen

PURNIMA RAMAKRISHNAN interviews JACK CANFIELD, the co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul. In part two of his interview, he shares insights on overco

Chicken Soup for the Successful Soul - Part Two

Darkness has a way of revealing how lost we are, literally and metaphorically. Just when the fear settles that we may have strayed too far from the pa

The Mysterious Mountain Guide

DAAJI maps the evolving relationship between guide and seeker through stages of recognition, resistance, and surrender, showing how what begins as ext

Being with the Guide

MOHAMED OSMAN meditates on the historic meeting between Francis of Assisi and Sultan Al-Malik al-Kamil during the Fifth Crusade—a moment of sanctuary 

Where Love’s Camels Lead - From the Nile to the Mountain

The Slow-Down Technique:A Transformative Practice for Conscious LivingThrough a simple technique, JASON NUTTING encourages us to slow down.“When we co

The Slow-Down Technique

DR. ICHAK ADIZES shares his observation that happiness comes not from thinking but from feeling, encouraging readers to quiet their analytical minds a

Let the Heart Win

The Heartful Listener – Part SixRAVI VENKATESAN continues his Heartful Listener series with part six, transforming listening from intention to skill a

Mastering the Four Listening Skills

In honor of healers everywhere, SARA BUBBER shares a Buddhist tale of a visionary physician whose holistic approach encompassed the patients’ well-bei

The Coconut That Found Its Head

Humanity's Builders

Nothing is Lost

Love of Nature

The Beloved is All 

Follow Your Heart

In part 1 of this series of poems, MOHAMED OSMAN traces a personal spiritual journey beginning on the Nile and culminating in a moment of grace atop t

A poem on a spiritual journey, inner peace & the Nile.

Where Love’s Camels Lead From the Nile to the Mountain - part 1

Reflect Goodness

We Have Only Today

True Wisdom

Devotion

Observation

JACK CANFIELD, co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul, discusses overcoming fear, trusting inner guidance, and how his definition of success has evol

Chicken Soup for the Successful Soul

Hope Versus Action

DAAJI explores the transformative power of pausing—how taking a moment before making decisions, reacting, or acting can lead to greater clarity and wi

A Pause is a Moment of Integration

DR. ICHAK ADIZES underscores the importance of learning to let go when delegating in the workplace.It is not unusual for a task to be delegated, but i

The Art of Delegation

THE HEARTFUL LISTENERIn part 5 of his series, The Heartful Listener, RAVI VENKATESAN shares how listening can shift our intention for empathy into act

Transforming Intention into Action

JEMINA WATSTEIN shares how art can be both therapeutic and transformative for Third Culture Kids, individuals who live in multiple places over their f

Third Culture Kids

Weaving the Essence of NatureANANYA PATEL profiles textile artist DARSHINI PATEL, exploring her meditative weaving process and the nature-inspired tex

Rooted in Thread

ASHRAF NEHAL speaks to the centuries of correlation between faith and climate, and how, now more than ever, it is critical to reconnect with the Earth

Reuniting Soul and Soil

SURAJ SEHGAL speaks with MAMATA SUBRAMANYAM about coming together and creating community with change and vision.Q: You're a Heartfulness trainer. Can 

The Role of a Heartfulness Trainer

JASON NUTTING explains the emotional journey through the five chakras of the Heart Region.Beyond reaction lies resonance, the quiet language of the he

Emotional Evolution through the Heart Region

Choose Joy

SENTHIL VISWANATHAN reflects upon keeping the human engine running in top condition.Let us consider the workings of a piston engine—the piston moving 

The Engine of our Existence

For National Doctors’ Day, SARA BUBBER shares a Buddhist tale about a healer who cared for both patients and society, bringing prosperity through love

The Buddhist Healer

Meditation for centeredness

Attention inward

Restlessness to calm

Adventure of consciousness

Elements of the practice

Changing lifestyle to design destiny

A rightful meditation 

THE HEARTFUL LISTENER SERIESRAVI VENKATESAN describes the four qualities of Heartful Listening.“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listeni

Four core qualities of listening

In June, SARA BUBBER celebrates World Music Day. The story of Tansen shows how a great teacher recognized the musical talents of a young boy through a

Tansen: the famous musician

NINA RUBINSTEIN ALONSO reminisces about the early days of Heartfulness in the West.Shahjahanpur, IndiaI’d been in a gloomy mood when my husband Fernan

Interruptions in meditation

DR. ICHAK ADIZES describes the process of opening his heart and learning to love in later life by starting to feel.I am a Holocaust survivor. As a chi

The preconditions for love

A Practice for Returning to LightnessJASON NUTTINGshares the liberating practice of Heartfulness Cleaning.Sometimes the hardest part of letting go is 

Emergency cleaning

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND ATTITUDES FOR MODERN LIVINGDAAJI describes the special transformative quality of Heartfulness Meditation, Transmission, which 

Transmission can transform the world, if we want it to

AMELIE SU offers a blessing to her friend.In the serenity, I feel a love that is everywhere.It comes from the sky and from the earth.I am not searchin

Prayer - from meditation

J.C. LITTLE is a Canadian artist and former animator known for her expressive watercolors and storytelling. Here, she is interviewed by PURNIMA RAMAKR

Art is an honest medium

BHAVNA KHEMLANI writes about digital detox and the constant need for stimulation. We need to unplug to destress and reconnect.The soft hum of conversa

Unplugging to reconnect

We hear from Heartfulness practitioners around the world about the experience of Transmission and transformation.NEGIN KHORASANI,Toronto, Ontario, Can

Experiencing pranahuti

SENTHIL VISWANATHAN explores the concept of zero, from both computing and spiritual perspectives. Through this, he uncovers the very origins and base 

The power of zero

B. RATHINASABAPATHY and DR. ANANTHANENI SREENATH, Heartfulness Institute, Forests by Heartfulness.Planting a tree is not just about placing a sapling 

Greening the future: science, care, and sustainability

DAAJIshares a few simple steps to help us declutter what’s weighing us down, let go of what no longer sparks joy, and create space for the freedom and

The dance of joy

SURAJ SEHGAL reflects upon coming together and creating community with change and vision.Moving to a new place, graduating, starting a new job, gettin

How to build a community

Word Search - Names of Singers

Only this love

The earth laughs

SANJANA AYYAGARI explores the paradox of memory—both cherishing memory and, sometimes, the need to forget. She has come to see them not as opposites b

I can’t remember what I’ve forgotten!

The Universe

KAPIL NAIDU explores the paradox of remembering and forgetting, and how he resolved it through experience. Along the way, he learned some important li

Remembering and forgetting

A Journey Through the Depths of the HeartJASON NUTTINGWe begin on the surface—thought, motion, the echo of seeking.Restless to findwhat we’ve never tr

The descent into stillness

Dr. SREENATH ANANTHANENI is a conservation scientist and taxonomist at Forests by Heartfulness. Here he introduces the Butterfly Ginger Lily, and some

War over a fragrant flower

ROBERT STEVEN GOLDSTEIN is an author who lives in San Francisco. His latest novel, Golda’s Hutch, was released in March 2025. Here he explores the rel

The tree of knowledge

Gayathri Ramachandran explores the value of authenticity and courage in communication, first with herself and also with others. As an educator, headin

The hole in the boat

A Regenerative Leadership JournalEMILIE MOGENSEN brings natural processes to her workplace and reflects upon how they impact the start of a new projec

Whispers of winter

THE HEARTFUL LISTENER SERIESRAVI VENKATESAN delves into the foundations of exceptional listening, by cultivating a strong State of Being, connecting w

The foundation of exceptional listening: state of being

Anchored in His love

The silence within yourself

ELIZABETH DENLEY shares some experiences of remembrance, and how it enlivens her life and her relationships with herself and others.At various moments

Indra’s net

In this inspiring interview, PIR ZIA INAYAT KHAN, the head of the Inayati Order and grandson of Hazrat Pir Murshid Inayat Khan, shares the Sufi perspe

Uniting the fragments

May’s Artist at Heartfulness Magazine is NEERAJ PATEL. We learn about his approach and career through this spotlight by ANANYA PATEL.Neeraj Patel is a

Frameworks of fluidity

NARENDRA KINI looks at Artificial Intelligence versus Human Intelligence, and whether AI has the potential to develop intuition and higher wisdom, per

Human intelligence, artificial intelligence

I bow my head in humility

If you can dream, it, you can do it

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND ATTITUDES FOR MODERN LIVINGDAAJI is in conversation with APOORVA PATEL about Constant Remembrance and love, how they are both 

Love and remembrance

B. RATHINASABAPATHY, Ecologist at Forests by Heartfulness, describes the building of the Asana Mandala Garden, which blends Vedic wisdom, sacred geome

A sacred confluence of nature and spirituality: Asana Mandala Garden

World Athletics Day is celebrated on May 7, and SARA BUBBER shares a story from Greek Mythology on how the Olympic Games came into existence.Once upon

The story of the Olympic Games

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES ANDATTITUDES FOR MODERN LIVINGDAAJI has often said, “In real estate, 95% of everything is location, location, location, while in s

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