“Haunting” Featured Artist David H. Weinberger
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome author David H Weinberger with “Idle Hill,” one of our “Haunting” short story contest finalists, a heartbreaking short story about a father grieving the suicide …
Quote for Today: Frans de Waal
While restraint is apparent to anyone in daily contact with animals, Western thought hardly recognizes the ability. Traditionally, animals are depicted as slaves of their emotions. It all goes back …
Quote for Today: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer …
Quote for Today: Henri J.M. Nouwen
Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don’t receive what I deserve. It always …
Quote for Today: Margot Sunderland
Society reaps what it sows in the way it nurtures its children, because stress sculpts the brain to exhibit several antisocial behaviors. Stress can set off a ripple of hormonal …
Quote for Today: Pyotr Kropotkin
Having been brought up in a serf-owner’s family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, …
Quote for Today: Stephan McGlashan
Discipline and Rebellion are like night and day. One can’t exist without the other and in that there is equilibrium. Rebellion is natural and you will do it, to whatever …
Quote for Today: J. Robert Oppenheimer
You put a hard question on the virtue of discipline. What you say is true: I do value it—and I think that you do too—more than for its earthly …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Gilbert
Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I …
Quote for Today: Adrienne Rich
Transcendental Etude No one ever told us we had to study our lives, make of our lives a study, as if learning natural history or music, that we should begin …