"Have you learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?...That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the...
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As the world grows ever darker, I've been forcing myself to think about hope. I watch as the world and the people near me experience increased grief and suffering. As aggression and violence move...
Familiar memories “re-mind” us to reproduce the same experiences. When you see the same people every day, do the same things, go to the same places, and look at the same objects, the familiar...
Phantom limbs are common knowledge, especially to someone who has lost a limb yet continues to want to scratch an itch on a limb that isn’t there. In his tenacious and exhaustive investigations...
The dramatic nature of our lives is key to the transformation of the world in which we live. Active nonviolence—embodied by individuals, groups, religious communities and social movements—will...
Our view of what's possible is determined by our beliefs—our assumptions about reality. Below are two collections of assumptions about the work of developing...
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center for patients suffering from pain. MBSR teaches individuals the...
What do you do for a living?”—or its shorter (and more annoying) cousin, “So, what do you do?”—is the kind of question I avoid these days. n my head, I tend to get snotty: “I live for a living, duh!”...
Each of us has a personal sense of truth, a description of what the world is and how and why it functions as it does. This also includes our ideas about who we are and the meaning of life. As we...
Learning to do something well is a challenging and powerful journey of discovery. If we want to speak Portuguese fluently or play the cello in a way that reverberates in the deepest reaches of our...
When he was in kindergarten, Ryan Hreljac heard that children in a Ugandan village had to walk many kilometres every day for fresh drinking water, and set out to raise the $70 he believed it would...
Sugata Mitra has a PhD in physics and heads research efforts at New Delhi's NIIT, a fast-growing software and education company with sales of $200 million-plus and a market cap of more than $2...
From finger-painting to intricate landscape portraits, Lady Gaga to Chopin, art provokes spiritual wellness. Even before hospitals hired musicians to perform for traumatized veterans during the...
"Protect me from what I want.” A pithy, almost reactionary statement for our time, acknowledging a certain overindulgence, an excess. What we want is simply too much. Such are the messages...
One of the most commonly heard phrases today is, “We’re all in this together.” From high-level leaders to local school board members to teenagers offering service, this is the mantra of our time....
The colour green gets a lot of attention these days. It’s usually used to denote environmentally-friendly products or services, but in this case, “green exercise” actually refers to physical activity that...
Television comedian Flip Wilson always drew a laugh when his feminine character Geraldine exclaimed in contralto voice, “The devil made me buy this dress!” The line is funny because everyone...
It happened in the desert near the pyramids of Giza, Egypt. I could see the pyramids in silhouette not too far in the distance and I remember hearing the grains...
Climate change. Genetically-Modified Food. Cancer. Poverty. War. Sometimes it's hard to get up in the morning and be fearless, to have courage and to care. That's why I started interviewing...
In times of war much is said about ending war and making the world peaceful again. There are protests against war, diplomatic negotiations behind the scenes and peace movements of all kinds...
I have worked with this mindfulness training consciously and unconsciously long before I knew there was a Buddhist precept about it. But I did not have a good understanding about anger or violence...
Three dogs were basking in the sun and conversing. The first dog said dreamily, "It is indeed wondrous to be living in this day of dogdom. Consider the ease with which we travel under the sea...
Eight hundred years ago, Catherine, a woman living in Sienna, Italy who was later to become a saint, stated: "Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills." Her words haunt me today as...
It was really, really cold. She kept her eyes on her mom’s red bomber jacket and her mom kept looking back for her pink snowsuit, smiling. They were going...
