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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate… to have made some difference that you have lived and lived well.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson One of my favorite ways to drift into sleep is a quiet little ritual you may recognize as a loving-kindness meditation. It’s a simple practice — offering kind wishes to ourselves and others: “May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I be at ease.” When I'm lying in the dark, I start with myself,

Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst. Charles Garfield . Here’s one early takeaway from this article.  A simple...

We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when...

Between stimulus and response there's a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of...

Ananda, one of the Buddha’s disciples, said to the Buddha one day. “I’ve realized that half of the path to the holy life is made of good...

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. in molecular biology, MIT, Nobel Laureate in...

"I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search, finding beauty where I did not want to look." - Suzy Kassem, 'Rise Up...