How Loving God Can Helps Us Become Better People

How loving God helps us become better People.

Why It Can Be So Difficult To Come To Know Oneself

As a society, we turn a blind eye to obvious trauma, making one’s story more difficult.

A Teacher Creates His Toughest Test

Are Students Energized by My Lessons or Thinking of Something Else?

The Exercise Program That Failed

And how Big Pharma can even crush the benefits of working out.

An Inn Where the Guests Come Third

And the best workshop is to play.

The Omega-3 Paradox

How We Became Deficient In The Most Abundant Fat On The Planet.

And This Is How Our World Will Change

Those who have deeply suffered know the only way to attain authentic and lasting contentment is to turn our hearts outward in service to those who are suffering. Here are two stories…

Befriending Grief

What Helped Is That I Finally Found A Purpose For This Sometimes-Excruciating Feeling.

I Don't Want To Own 'America' Right Now

I Don't Want To Own 'America' right now

Distributing The Weight

I WAS MOVED BY our conversation last night. I understand how you feel the presence of suffering always in the background, juxtaposed against the peaceful times and moments of abundance we chance upon. I’ve felt this too and have come to sense that we all take turns in these places, and that it does no good for everyone to be suffering at once. When blessed to be well, we balance the world by being conduits of light for the time being, as long as we stay touchable.

Get Unstuck

We live in stories—all of us, all of the time. This is a story about breaking through writer’s block and the start of a focused, passionate, and productive period.

Make Room for All Your Feelings ​​​​​​​

An Interview With Mark Epstein

What To Do When Your Practice Gives You A Shove!

The invitation can upend your life in ways you never expected—and create great joy.How will you respond?

The Company We Keep

HERE ARE VOICES from the S&H staff that you don’t usually hear—involving a process called Stillpoint we’ve been using to build our company.

What's In An Affirmation

Cardiologist Mimi Guarneri, Md, Goes to the Heart of Words and Breath.

How To Reinvest In Your Love Fund

Recognize That the Deficit Often Comes From an Inability to Receive.

Being Honorable

For Me, That Meant Resigning From the State Department and Now Resisting Our New President’s Vision of America.

Getting Up The Nerve To Tell Your Story

And what to do if you write yourself wrong

To Shed Your Extra Cushioning, Shed Your Extra Cushioning

Once only the rich had shoes and chairs and excess fat.

7 Traits Of Positive Audacity

Audacity, by Its Nature, Breeds Polarized Responses. Here’s How You Can Judge Whether Your Next Audacious Act Will Be a Catalyst for Good.

Listening To Polyamory

As more relationships open, I wanted to learn if this can be a spiritual practice for Growing Love.

Peace Lessons From A War Horse

Could you teach a peace-loving and exquisitely sensitive animal to carry you across a battlefield into enemy fire? What would that teach you? a true story…

The Zen of Gratitude

Why Is More and More Always Better if It Can Never Be Enough? And Other Great Questions From David Loy.

24 Hours of Tea

A tea for any time of day and anything that ails you.

Wise Selfishness Rather Than Foolish Selfishness

A conversation with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu on the realization that nothing beautiful comes without some suffering.

Are Dietary Supplements Really Necessary?

Most of us eat too much, and many of us eat healthy, so… Why take extra anything?

Why It's Better To Eat A Cow Than A Hen Or A Sow

The “Dismal Science” Of Economics Looks At Reducing Cruelty.

6 Lessons From The Sea

After a couple of decades of surfing and traveling, and writing about surfing and traveling, these are six lessons that I use every day.

Slowing the Flow of Storm Water

How to be a more conscientious custodian of the water that runs through our lives.

What's Wrong with Being a Disembodied Mind?

Author and teacher RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO has been called “one of the best bridges of Eastern and Western wisdom.” His newest book is Embracing the Divine Feminine.