Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
When I got to the waterfront, I parked the car beside a deserted warehouse, smoked a cigarette and put Bob Dylan on auto-repeat. I reclined the seat, kicked both …
Look and Listen #27: The Healing Dance of Sevil Kara
Sevil Kara is a Kurdish Sufi Dancer living in Geneva. In her travels to Turkey, Morocco and India she has learned much about her heritage and her commitment to her internal …
Look and Listen #6: Mixed Media Artist Jamilla Okubo
Jamilla Okubo talks about using art to tell her story and the story of her culture, from growing up in D.C. to reconnecting with her father’s side of the family …
Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
If something negative comes to the surface, such as your despair and anger, or the despair and anger of your spouse, you need the energy of mindfulness to embrace it. …
Picturing Healing Energy: Paintings by Agnes Lawrence Pelton
I’ve recently returned to painting and, searching for inspiration, ran across Agnes Pelton’s extraordinary transcendental paintings, images full of energy balanced with a cool serenity. She has quickly become one …
Quote for Today: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is …
Quote for Today: Gary Zukav
Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of …
Quote for Today: Helen Hayes
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, …
Quote for Today: Christina Rasmussen
I have lived in the shadow of loss—the kind of loss that can paralyze you forever. I have grieved like a professional mourner—in every waking moment, draining every ounce of …
Quote for Today: Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, …