The Face Game
Learning to play “the Face Game”, as Douglas Harding calls it, is not seen as being a mistake or trap, but actually an...
Bouquets And Brickbats
Guru Nanak, the first Guru of the Sikhs, shared a message that was radical for his day. He questioned empty rituals, exposed the...
Hosting The Pain Of The World
When we begin to access fields of collective trauma to begin the healing process together, we often become aware of those who...
Why Silence Can Feel Agitating
In the mid-2010s, researchers at the University of Virginia ran a now-famous experiment. They asked college students to sit quietly for...
The Laughter Thief
I read recently that the average 4-year-old laughs about 300 times a day. The average 40-year-old? Only four. So why do so many of us...
No Fingerprint On The Infinite
Trauma was not being able to get the hands of the clock off of me. Healing was learning no one has ever laid a fingerprint on...
Letting The Hero Die
Leonard Cohen said his teacher once told him that, the older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love you need. This is...
Remember Ourselves As A Murmuration
The murmuration of birds is one of my favorite phenomena in nature—an occurrence where Starlings flock together with up to hundreds...
Vows Of Active Hope
On the last afternoon of a two-week intensive workshop, Joanna Macy was out walking and met a young monk from the retreat centre hosting...
The Willing Gift
The sun was soft that morning, and the breeze carried the smell of wet earth. Birds flew low over the fields as Acharya Vinoba Bhave...
When Solutions Are Technologies Of Avoidance
When things don't go according to plan, when the laboratory explodes into splinters of glass, smoke, and worthy intentions, it is...
Imagination Is Not Day-Dreaming
Imagination is a superpower. Every single change in society started in somebody’s imagination — or in a small group’s...