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A blessing and a challenge for the holidays: to keep a spirit of gratitude and giving no matter the season.
Sharon Salzberg on how to relate to the people whose views we find repugnant and frightening and with whom we can’t imagine standing on common ground.
Eugene Peterson reflects on the spiritual concept of "congruence" and the life-long endeavor of matching inner life to outer behavior.
The pain and gift of the end of life, and the truths that dying reveals at the heart of being human.
From the solitude of nature, a poem on reclaiming a sense of welcome in our own lives.
If you want to lead others, learn to be alone with your thoughts. A penetrating contemplation of what great leadership requires: a steady independence of mind that only comes with solitude.
Courtney Martin delves into America's dysfunctional relationship with sex, money, and power — and calls for a rethinking of sex education, to reflect the actual complexity and broad range of how human sexuality gets expressed and must be honored.
December 6, 2017
The Characterization of Sufism as a Separate Sect Within Islam Is Inaccurate and Problematic
Omid Safi explores the harmful good Sufi/bad Muslim construct in the way we talk about Islam — and calls for a greater understanding of the true breadth of the spectrum of Islamic thought.
A hopeful poem by Portia Nelson on the slow but cathartic process of breaking out of our harmful habits.
A new generation of physicians with a pledge beyond doing no harm: to walk alongside their patients as people, and to nurture wellbeing with compassion, thoughtfulness, and integrity.
Tools for a more honest perspective on where we stand on the socioeconomic spectrum — and on rewriting the story we tell ourselves about how we got where we are, and what we can do for those less fortunate.
On stripping away the clutter of life to live more deeply, inspired by a Mary Oliver poem on the clarity that comes from winter’s sparseness.
To learn the transgressions of men we admire feels like betrayal. But is forsaking them the only way forward? On redemption and taking up a more nuanced understanding of why people with power do bad things.
On reckoning with an unknown family past, searching for truth, and the stories we imagine to understand the ones we love.
What if we trusted what our bodies tell us about our experiences? On the frustrating gap between our emotional intuition and the reality that we perceive.
It can be hard, sometimes embarrassing, to admit we don't have the answers. But there's grace and wisdom in owning up to what we don't know — and giving space for the strengths of those we might overshadow.
A poem from Mary Oliver on the ultimate act of gratitude: offering up our own gifts of the mind, heart, and spirit.
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