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. …
Yearning for Catharsis: The Transitory Sound and Movement Collective
When we get caught up in evaluating performance, life, and art, become uninspired. How do we refresh our vision? I found my seat in the darkened room. A soundless film …
Quote for Today: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. ―Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Public Domain Image via maxpixel
Floating on Water: The Medieval Art of Ebru
Traditional art forms remain astounding and disarmingly beautiful in an era dominated by technology. What makes this art so beguiling? Ebru, a form of paper marbling, is an ancient art that originated …
Celebrating 2015: A Meditation in Quotes
I thought I would try a new approach this year with my favorite quotes. This is always the most difficult list to compose, and, with the sheer number of quotes published …
Quote for Today: Zeena Schreck
Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular mainstream entertainment, sometimes labeling it ‘world’ or ‘folk’ …
Quote for Today: Thích Nhất Hạnh
If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and …
Quote for Today: Barbara Hurd
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in …
Weaving the Willow Wand: Baskets of Lise Bech
Lise Bech is a basket maker who creates beautiful and useful objects from organic and sustainable materials, chiefly from various species of Scottish Willow. Each species has its own texture, …
Quote for Today: Jean Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the …