Sara McAulay’s “In the beginning” wins our “Flow” poetry contest
Synkroniciti is pleased to select “In the beginning” by Sara McAulay as the winner of the “Flow” poetry contest. This poem is not only formally striking and filled with beautiful …
Quote for Today: Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this …
Quote for Today: Aristotle
Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being …
Quote for Today: Malcolm Gladwell
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad …
Quote for Today: Jim Butcher
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the …
Quote for Today:Fernando Pessoa
Our problem isn’t that we’re individualists. It’s that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we …
Quote for Today: Robert Sapolsky
Going easy on ourselves also reflects a key cognitive fact: we judge ourselves by our internal motives and everyone else by their external actions. And thus, in considering our own …
Quote for Today: Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is …
Quote for Today: Therese of Lisieux
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness …
Quote for Today: Timothy Keller
Imagine you are on a high cliff and lose your footing and begin to fall. Just beside you as you fall is a branch sticking out of the very edge …