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Adrienne Enriquez and Alysson Enriquez

Tequia Burt tells the story of two Portland women who are welcoming newcomers and honoring their own family.

A Blip in the Cosmos

Author and teacher RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO is encouraging Perennial Wisdom to lead us beyond alienation and isolation to integration and unity, based on Genesis 12:3: “You shall be a blessing to all the families of the earth.”

Dogitation

Canine Help Along the Bodhisattva Path

How To Feed The Brain In Your Belly

Fixing your digestion can make you feel a lot less anxious.

"Tend & Befriend"

How Hope for the World Is Growing in Circles.

Entrepreneurs Of Civilization

We have no wisdom traditions nearly as old as we are, and maybe that’s because we’ve buried something important.

The Art Of Caring

In Buddhism, We Often Talk About Enlightenment or Awakening, but Words Like That Feel Far Away to Me. I Speak About Intimacy.

Finding A Dream Job

EMMA SEPPÄLÄ  PhD is author of The Happiness Track, founder of FulfillmentDaily.com, and Science Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.

The Omega-3 Paradox

How We Became Deficient In The Most Abundant Fat On The Planet.

And This Is How Our World Will Change

Those who have deeply suffered know the only way to attain authentic and lasting contentment is to turn our hearts outward in service to those who are suffering. Here are two stories…

Befriending Grief

What Helped Is That I Finally Found A Purpose For This Sometimes-Excruciating Feeling.

I Don't Want To Own 'America' Right Now

I Don't Want To Own 'America' right now

Roadside Assistance For The Spiritual traveler

Can God incarnate as both Christ and Krishna?

Start Acting Like an Animal

A FAMOUS SURVEY conducted in 2004 found that one in four Americans have no one to speak to about a personal problem, and that seems very sad.

How Loving God Can Helps Us Become Better People

How loving God helps us become better People.

Why It Can Be So Difficult To Come To Know Oneself

As a society, we turn a blind eye to obvious trauma, making one’s story more difficult.

A Teacher Creates His Toughest Test

Are Students Energized by My Lessons or Thinking of Something Else?

The Exercise Program That Failed

And how Big Pharma can even crush the benefits of working out.

An Inn Where the Guests Come Third

And the best workshop is to play.

Make Room for All Your Feelings ​​​​​​​

An Interview With Mark Epstein

Distributing The Weight

I WAS MOVED BY our conversation last night. I understand how you feel the presence of suffering always in the background, juxtaposed against the peaceful times and moments of abundance we chance upon. I’ve felt this too and have come to sense that we all take turns in these places, and that it does no good for everyone to be suffering at once. When blessed to be well, we balance the world by being conduits of light for the time being, as long as we stay touchable.

Get Unstuck

We live in stories—all of us, all of the time. This is a story about breaking through writer’s block and the start of a focused, passionate, and productive period.

Should I Feel Guilty About Being Happy?

Author and teacher RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO has been called “one of the best bridges of Eastern and Western wisdom.” His newest book is The World Wisdom Bible.

What Really Happens When We Meditate

An interview with Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson about their new book, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

Becoming Trans-Personal

Shifting away from an attachment to the material aspects of personhood can help transform suffering into healing.

Awakening To The Kalachakra

How Easy It Is to Completely Miss the Inner Wisdom of Our Ancient Wisdom Traditions.

7 Traits Of Positive Audacity

Audacity, by Its Nature, Breeds Polarized Responses. Here’s How You Can Judge Whether Your Next Audacious Act Will Be a Catalyst for Good.

Listening To Polyamory

As more relationships open, I wanted to learn if this can be a spiritual practice for Growing Love.

Peace Lessons From A War Horse

Could you teach a peace-loving and exquisitely sensitive animal to carry you across a battlefield into enemy fire? What would that teach you? a true story…

The Zen of Gratitude

Why Is More and More Always Better if It Can Never Be Enough? And Other Great Questions From David Loy.