Category: Mindfulness
New from The Under 35 Project: “Throw Out Your Empties”
Kieran Cunningham issues a call to identify and eliminate "empties" – those loose, unmindful expressions we use on a daily basis.
Confession of a Lapsed Non-meat-eater
Rod Meade Sperry reflects on the compassion and difficulty of changing your diet to vegan.
My Father’s Gift — A story of loss and renewal
A guest post by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, author of Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are.
From The Under 35 Project: “A Lesson in Mindfulness on a Lazy Summer’s Day”
Christopher Willard's father’s magic trick taught him his first lesson on mindful awareness and the power of concentration at the age of seven
We transform evil into good.
A teaching from Norman Fischer to help in these troubled times, as a semblance of peace seems to be returning to Boston.
How does loneliness happen if indeed we are all one being? — New from The Under 35 Project
Samuel Gentoku McCree on the contrast between the experience of loneliness and the felt reality of interdependence.
Every Day a Reprieve
Josh Korda knows he is not cured—and he never will be—but through honesty and diligence he enjoys a daily reprieve from depression and addiction.
You Don’t Have to Know
John Tarrant discovered that not knowing is the best—and maybe the only possible—response to suffering.
What’s Your Verdict?
Recognizing the judgments we all pass on ourselves, says Bonnie Friedman, is the first step to freedom.
This Whole World is a Poem
This oriole, this friend, this daughter, this fox—Michael Sowder on all the poems that are just waiting for us to write them down.