[ad_1] July 7, 2021– For a year and a half, artist Lori Portka painted her gratitude through individual artworks for 100 people who have made a difference in her life. In her effort to truly live a life of gratitude, Lori learned that gratitude grows and grows and grows. “The more I focused on gratitude,…

[ad_1] July 6, 2021– “A real charm, an enchantment, this book is pure music. It sings to the reader. This is the real thing. In each paragraph of the book, the Spirit is there. This is what the natives of the Americas have.” We tried to say, but they never let us. This song is…

[ad_1] July 4, 2021– “As human beings, we inevitably experience harm: we feel hurt, we hurt ourselves and we hurt others. We free ourselves from this experience not by imagining that we can escape the damage, but by knowing that we can heal it, moving from one wound to another. – and then learn to…

[ad_1] July 3, 2021– As the mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone so eloquently described it here, the loss of forests due to the impact of climate change is much more than the loss of beauty and shade. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr is leading her city’s efforts to make Freetown a city of trees by planting one…

[ad_1] July 2, 2021– “How do you discover and embody your unique life purpose? The topic of life purpose is addressed here in light of the following: 1. There are three different purposes: to wake up, to grow and to appear. 2. A person is born with a unique purpose that is best understood in…

[ad_1] July 1, 2021– “I want to describe a method invented by the Quakers, a method that protects individual identity and integrity while relying on the wisdom of other people. It’s called the Clarity Committee. If that name sounds like it was from the sixties, it’s – the 1660s! Since their inception over three hundred…

[ad_1] June 30, 2021– “” I need to get away for a while. “It is a recurring and persistent internal refrain for many of us. John Harvey did just that. And his book, The Stillness of the Living Forest: A Year of Listening and Learning is Not Just a Deep Look to his experience, but,…

[ad_1] June 29, 2021– “In this book, I describe a biology of the feeling self, a biology that has discovered subjective feeling as the fundamental driving force in all life, from the cellular level to the complexity of the human organism. I also describe how this discovery turns our image of ourselves upside down. We…

[ad_1] June 28, 2021– “Daniel Goleman is a psychologist, science journalist and author of the books Emotional Intelligence (over 5 million copies in print in 40 languages), Social Intelligence and Ecological Intelligence. Sounds True founder Tami Simon talks to Dan about ideas in his landmark book, Emotional Intelligence, and where we have come since its…

[ad_1] June 27, 2021– A blind man runs alone through Death Valley. Journalist Paul Salopek walks 21,000 miles across the world to track the migration of our ancestors, manifesting “slow journalism.” Science writer Anil Ananthaswamy searches for the silent places on earth where cosmologists and monks alike are performing “extreme physics.” Photographer Rachel Sussman struggles…