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Bring Families Together Through Dreams
An excerpt from Dreams at the Threshold by Jeanne Van Bronkorst.
How to Control Your Emotions
I’ve been told that I have a fairly broad and deep emotional range. That can be a good thing, because it means I feel things with sensitivity, complexity, and intensity. I notice n…
2015 July/August
Toolbox: Walk in the Wild
Support your soul and wander under a big blue sky with these finds for healthy exploring.
Joining the World’s Most-Shared Meditation
From the archive: Selected stories from the past 20 years.
Tea as a universal meditation
2015 July/August
Describe Someone Especially Beautiful to You
People with developmental disabilities are not people who are going to do big things, but they’re beautiful people, because they’re not people of the head, they’re people of the he…
2015 July/August
Close to the Ground: Even in a Brothel
When I first started out on this meditation path decades ago, I was awed by the people who would show up at the Zen Buddhist Temple for the 5:00 a.m. services and sit like mountain…
2015 July/August
Care of the Soul: The Soul Under Construction
For most of his life, my father was a plumbing instructor in a trade school and was one of those people who can build a house from scratch. I envy that ability and regret that I di…
2015 July/August
The Practical Balance of Crane Conservation
You might expect an organized birdwatching trip to begin serenely in the predawn dark and quiet. But birdwatchers at the Crane Trust start their journey in a brightly lit room, bei…
2015 July/August
How Can People Be Deeply Spiritual and Emotionally Immature?
“What’s most simple to say is that, for our hearts to be wise and free, we have to attend to the mandala of our being—which includes body, emotions, mental states, and thought structure—and their relations with one another.”
2015 July/August
24 Hours of Tea
We've found a tea for any time of day and anything that ails you—what will you brew?
