Bernie Siegel on how compliments give people renewed energy.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: Emotional Wisdom
Taoist healing practices for body, mind, and soul.
Book Excerpt: Be The Change
A forgiveness meditation practice by Ed and Deb Shapiro.
Book Review: Be The Change
Excerpts from over 100 meditation practitioners about its benefits and transformative value.
Book Review: What Is God?
A scholarly account of this well-read professor of philosophy's quest for God and his findings about inner experience of the Divine.
Book Excerpt: What Is God?
A practice from G. I. Gurdifieff for remembering where you are and why you are here.
Book Excerpt: Meditation in a New York Minute
Mark Thornton on the heart as a center of peace in these turbulent days.
Book Review: The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul
A clarion call to acknowledge and honor the Sacred Feminine and to draw out the divine light and energy of the World Soul.
Book Excerpt: The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on making connections between our hearts and the crisis of a desecrated Earth.
Book Review: Stones into Schools
An extraordinary account of promoting peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan through education and community service.
Book Review: Reading Jesus
A refreshing batch of commentaries on the Gospels from a gifted fiction writer.
Book Excerpt: Reading Jesus
Novelist Mary Gordon on the Beatitudes as teachers.
Book Review: How Philosophy Can Save Your Life
Makes philosophy relevant to everyday life with a probe of 10 important subjects and a rich add-on of suggested resources from many different mediums.
Book Excerpt: How Philosophy Can Save Your Life
Suggestions from a philosopher on creating a joyful day.
Book Review: Etty Hillesum
The ecumenical mysticism of Holocaust victim Etty Hilessum whose diaries charted her spiritual course.
Book Excerpt: Etty Hillesum
Etty Hillseum, a Holocaust victim, on her survival perspective and living a good and faithful life.
Book Review: The Age of Empathy
Studies of the social behaviors of animals that demonstrate humans are preprogrammed to be empathetic and kind to each other.
Book Excerpt: The Age of Empathy
Biologist Frans de Waal on need to expand the range of our empathy or fellow feeling to include others and outsiders.
Book Review: We Live Inside a Story
Celebrates the good medicine of stories in the Christian tradition.
Book Excerpt: Adventures in Prayer
Sharon Connors on five foundations for effective prayer.