Good Clean Reads

Marianne Williamson, internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer, joined us on the 10th episode of The Opening Door. In this excerpt, she shares her take on matter, energy and science. Visit us at TheOpeningDoor.org to listen to the full interview.

At a time when money worries lead the news all around the world, Marianne Williamson’s latest application of the Course in Miracles teachings to accessing a prosperity consciousness. In her recently released book The Law of Divine Compensation, she explores how material manifestation comes through spiritual substance. Like the laws of gravity, our conversation articulately explores how the...

Today in the grocery store, I shared a real conversation with one of the mothers I knew in the years that my eldest son was consumed for a love of tennis. I knew her son had been present at the accident when the two boys from South were swept into the ocean but I hadn’t heard about how the event had changed his life until today. Old friendships between mothers are re-kindled easily in the freezer...

Learning to listen and share our stories is where we experience our ordinary lives in extraordinary ways.  Learning how to bring our attention and full presence to our relationships keeps us awake and connected to what matters most.  Mark Nepo, is an award winning and best selling author, poet and philosopher who encourages us to become quiet enough and open enough to listen to what truly...

“May the nourishment of the earth be yours.May the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours, may the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slow wind work these words of love around you, an invisible cloak to mind your life.”

– John O’Donohue

Losing everything you have is a reality that is hard to fathom and a fear that drives many. In the month since Hurricane...

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I remember a few years ago after a huge forest fire ate up a large neighborhood of homes in the Colorado mountains and a small statue of Mary appeared in my inbox. A friend’s friend was passing along this image. Like a sign, even in the midst of profound loss and destruction, what remains is holy, unchanging and somehow protected from the wins and losses that seems to define...

Nothing is more fascinating than why we fall in love and what makes us choose our partners, Author Brian Alexander. sheds light on this mysterious phenomena thorough the lens of neuroscience and psychology.  Understanding the Chemistrybetween us provides a fresh analysis of our relationships and our culture. Gaining a better understanding of what happens in our brains when we fall both in and out...

“If you had just one more minute to get a positive thought, that could change everything.” 

This is what I hear myself say at the end of our kickstarter videoas I watch the faces of some of my favorite teenagers flash on the screen. I am moved each and every time I see this video, which tells the story through the kids’ words of why they are spending their weekends moving concrete and gravel....