Healing: True Woo, Placebo, and Kindness
We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when...
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- Jun 22
- 7 min
Relationships, Flourishing, and Seeing With Our Autobiography
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anaïs Nin About forty years ago I had a quick conversation with a friend. He...
- May 29
- 6 min
Suffering, Empathy, and The Parable of The Mustard Seed
For each event, use mindfulness, a sense of common humanity, and kindness to process the event in a self-compassionate way. Dr. Kristin...
- May 10
- 4 min
Belonging To Each Other
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa An acquaintance’s obituary was published...
- Feb 13
- 6 min
Love Our Enemies: Getting Back On The Horse
If you fall off the horse, get back on (shouted by coaches and murmured by grandparents to keep us trying after failure...when they can't...
- Feb 8
- 5 min
The Heart of It: Love and Lent, Moral Elevation, and Oxytocin
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation.... Charles Sumner, American statesman Some of you sent me beautiful stories related...
- Feb 6
- 4 min
What Is The Sound Of Soul Clapping? Could Be Lovely
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau, poet, writer Moments ago, I was chatting via email with my friend,...
- Jan 1
- 3 min
A Good Resolution for Us All?
Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. —...
- Dec 20, 2023
- 4 min
Gloria Steinem or Whoever was Wrong: Two Lessons From 50 Years of Marriage
“Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she's there. You come back from work, she's there. You fall...
- Nov 28, 2023
- 5 min
Are We Naturally Good or Bad?
"I think there's a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you've stepped across the line into evil, and it's your life's...
- Nov 7, 2023
- 6 min
Thank YOU! Bring on the Wisdom
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." — G.K. Chesterton Some...
- Oct 19, 2023
- 3 min
Silencing the Maggot Inside Your Head
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” ― Dr. Christopher Germer,...
- Jun 30, 2023
- 6 min
Bias Can't Be Outlawed, Now What?
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin, black American writer Our...
- Jun 13, 2023
- 3 min
Freeing Ourselves From Prison... and Expanding Our Circle
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and...
- May 16, 2023
- 4 min
Ode To The Unsung Heroes
"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real." Victor Hugo If you want a little psychological...
- Apr 5, 2023
- 3 min
Opening To Our Darkness
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own...
- Mar 31, 2023
- 4 min
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even...
- Mar 21, 2023
- 6 min
Words of Wisdom for The Good Life
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness - George Saunders, Writer John has been going crazy... trying to take his "Bee...
- Mar 10, 2023
- 7 min
Advice Business Leader Would Give to His 22 Year-Old Self
People think compassion is a soft skill. The strongest people I know are the most compassionate. True compassion requires superhuman...
- Mar 7, 2023
- 3 min
Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
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