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“Rather than scoffing at religion…scientists should be studying spiritual practices as a source of ideas and inspiration” — David DeSteno, author of How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion For a long time, many people assumed science and religion lived in different neighborhoods—one dealing in facts, the other in faith. But psychologist David DeSteno, in his thoughtful work How God Works, suggests something surprising: science is discovering that many ancie

“ Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world. ” — Dacher Keltner It got to me this morning—that quiet, accumulating weight of the world pressing in before I could quite name why. A headline here, a comment there, voices rising and tightening, each one a little sharper than the last. I could feel it first in my body, a low hum of agitation, like something inside me was bracing for a fight I didn’t want

“Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” — Karl Menninger This morning this truth jumped out from an old psychological guru. I was cleaning out books for the new year—pulling volumes from shelves, deciding what to keep, what to pass on, what still spoke and what had grown quiet. In the middle of that small ritual of sorting and letting go, I came across Karl Menninger again. His book Love Against Hate stopped me. I sat down on the floor, ope

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes...

Yes, I saw and read some of the political news yesterday. I am politically independent - still I have plenty of thoughts about what path...

If your religion requires you to hate someone, you need a new religion . Various attributions Religion and spirituality can impact...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious . It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion...

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and...

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Energy cannot be...

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin, black American writer Our...

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, American Congregationalist clergyman of the 1800's,...

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said...