Kernel Of Corn
Thich Nhat Hanh
There was a patient in the mental hospital [in Vietnam] who seemed to be normal. He ate and talked like other people. But he believed that he was a kernel of corn, and every time he saw a chicken, he ...
We Can See Only What We Can Think
Michael Lipson
Fortunately or not, everything we do is led by our thinking. There's just no way around it. Even if I say, "I'm going to stop thinking and let feeling be my guide" -- that's...
Sharing Someone Else's Wound
Ariel Burger
My son was on a trip, a semester-long program in Israel, and then they traveled to Poland for 10-days. On this program, he made a good friend, a new friend, named Mason. And when they got t...
Looking Through A Window
Sam Harris
Everyone has had the experience of looking through a window and suddenly catching sight of his own reflection staring back at him from the glass. At that point, he can use the glass as a window, to se...
Gratitude Is More Than Thank You
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gratitude is so much more than a polite “thank you.” It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nour...
Perfume Of Wholeness
Vimala Thakar
A new challenge awaits us at the beginning of the twenty-first century: to go beyond fragmentation, to go beyond the incompatible sets of values held even by serious-minded people, to mature beyond th...
"I"
Rabindranath Tagore
The color of my consciousness made the emerald green, and the ruby red. I gazed at the sky, and the light dazzled in the east and the west. I turned to the rose and exclaimed - ‘it’s...
Gymnastics Of Attention
Menka Sanghvi
I once tried an improv class to see if that would finally help calm my stage nerves. It didn't. But I did learn something amazing. If an actor is trying to show the audience that they love some...
The Future Is Unknowable
Adam Grant
Humans may be the only species that can imagine an unknown future. But that doesn’t mean we’re any good at it. We’re routinely wrong about which career we’ll choose, where w...
Embracing Deep Transitions With Wisdom
Vanessa Andreotti
As we stand at the precipice of endings—of species, ecosystems, organizations, and systems themselves—the work of hospicing is to move beyond fear and embrace the deep transitions ahead wi...
Between Knowing And Not Knowing
Ruth Ozeki and Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein: I sometimes play with the idea — and recognizing that I know nothing in these areas — that a lot of what is being described here is simply unreliableness. And that sounds negat...
Staying True To Your Heart Is The Essence Of Life
Kerri Lake
You know how people will lament when they say, "Time to get back to reality,"" or "...yeah, but that's not how the real world works"? What is the real world? Who suggested...
The Best Day Of My Life
Douglas Harding
The best day of my life—my rebirthday, so to speak—was when I found I had no head. This is not a literary gambit, a witticism designed to arouse interest at any cost. I mean it in all seri...