Author Pico Iyer chronicles his 100+ retreats to a remote Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, Northern California; exploring ...

In the West, those who enter monasteries are faced with difficulties based on the fact that Western people are educated in individualism, a striving for being special in some way, and for this reason ...

Spend a few minutes looking at some Montessori-inspired children's bedrooms and you might come away with the impression that what you're after is a vaguely Japandi beige monastic cell. It looks ...