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Courtney offers seven searching questions to help you enter the coming year primed for growth.
Parker Palmer shares the poetry of a president: a testament to the healing power of words, and embracing the shadow and light within.
Father's Day is just around the corner in the U.S. Parker Palmer shares some of his dad's most humorous gems and a poem by Dana Gioia to celebrate all the men in our lives.
If St. Francis is right, and our actions speak louder than our words, then you might say this man's father was never quiet. A lovely essay on this Father's Day.
If you look deeply into this flower, you see a cloud, because you know that if there is no cloud there will be no rain, and this flower cannot manifest itself. So looking in the flower you see an element you don’t call flower. But if you…
How do we avoid cliches and generalizations of entire groups of people? We must tell better stories and more of them by more people who deepen our understanding of the nuances rather than reducing them to a single narrative.
Is it possible to teach doctors how to give bad news? A writer's probing reflection on hearing — and giving — the hardest messages to receive.
So often we dwell on our mistakes. Sharon Salzberg helps us step away from this routine and walk a different terrain — with the practice of lovingkindness that develops a flexibility of looking at our own lives.
We rarely know the pain and suffering that envelops the people closest to us. In this loving tribute, the poetic structure of an Auden poem serves as a frame to remember a neighbor who loved dogs but couldn't hang onto life.
As a culture, we celebrate simplicity and its convenience. But the truth is always more complex, embedded in larger systems and worlds. Miguel Clark Mallet on the possibilities that open up when we accept the value of complexity.
Courtney Martin examines the "tragic gaps" in the creative life — between our hard realities and what we dream is possible.
What does it look like to both humanize and challenge friends with opposing viewpoints? A pen pal program between two middle schools in Boston, Massachusetts and Ozark, Arkansas provides some answers — and doodles.
Dear Friends, I have news to share. In short, The On Being Project is expanding its imprint, and the On Being show is evolving with it… It has been over two decades, spanning unimaginable arcs of happening, since I proposed…
https://onbeing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Loitering-for-CD.mp3 I’m sitting at a café in Detroit where in the door window is the sign with the commands NO SOLICITING NO LOITERING stacked like an anvil. I have a fiscal relationship with this establishment, which I developed by buying a coffee, and which makes…
A century of reflections.
An unexpected letter landed on our columnist's doorstep the other day. It contains a surprising lesson on the meaning of community — and an opportunity to open up to a fellow flawed and striving human being.
We need to get wiser about efficiency — about when it's a good thing, and when it saps us of the slow and messy connections that help us learn, grow, and thrive.
After reading Hanya Yanagihara’s novel “A Little Life,” our columnist grapples with the reality of suffering that doesn't make us stronger.