My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

I knew I had to be on the street, up close at eye level for "La Procesión del Silencio", or the Procession of Silence. It is a yea...

Last weekend was the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz , the notorious German concentration camp in Poland where  in...

We are both a bit thunderstruck—hit by lightning; not burned but filled with a higher vibration from heaven that gleams with light. Bar...

“True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self.” — Baha’u’llah I am at the midway point of the Baha...

Standing with Hagag and his family. Front of Hagag's house My Egyptian brother Hagag and I sat at the simple wood table in fron...

It was a spring Saturday, I was sixteen years old, my father and I were out on the front lawn, pulling dandelion weeds out of the grass...

The ultimate task for me is not an external goal. Rather it is gaining wisdom and inner peace. Sounds simple enough but if we unders...

I usually say my obligatory prayers before bedtime. It is a Baha 'i tradition to recite Allah'u'Abha, which means God is Most...

These days I arise before dawn for breakfast. After the sun touches the horizon, nothing passes my lips until night comes. No food or wat...

The World is One Country, and mankind its citizens. -Baha'u'llah The International Folk Art Market happens once a year ...

My father said that he never could see the “man in the moon.” The moon's face with it's big crater eyes and opened mouth ...

Buddhist monks outside of a temple in Bodghaya , India The time of fasting for me has begun. I am in my third day of the Baha'i fast ...

All creatures have eyes, to navigate the physical realm, and these eyes are miracles of creation. How is it then that while we humans sleep ...

This is the last day of my annual period of fasting . The discipline requires that I give up food and water between sunrise and sunset fr...

What is the essence of love? It must be attraction, a desire to mingle and share with another. If that does not exist, then love does not. ...

For a lover, the greatest torment is separation from his love. It can be an agonizing pain if the goal of one’s longing is removed and becom...

When I travel for extended periods I become homeless and a true wanderer. I begin by abandoning my home, selling off possessions, and then s...