Books

The Art of Healing

The Art of Healing: Uncovering Your Inner Wisdom and Potential for Self-HealingBy Bernie S. Siegel, MD; New World LibraryWhether or not you enjoy this book has little to do wi…
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Books

Love Your Enemies

How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot HappierBy Sharon Salzberg and Robert ThurmanHay HouseAs the elevator door closed in my face, I felt my blood pressure rise. D…
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Books

Root-to-Stalk Cooking

The Art of Using the Whole VegetableBy Tara DugganTen Speed PressIn an age of nose-to-tail animal cookery, it’s only natural that an enterprising chef should turn her attentio…
Books

Darling

A Spiritual AutobiographyBy Richard RodriguezVikingIn the months after the events of September 11, 2001, the award-winning journalist Richard Rodriguez found himself drawn to learn…
Books

Becoming Kuan Yin

The Evolution of CompassionBy Stephen LevineWeiser Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/WeiserStephen Levine’s Becoming Kuan Yin tells of Miao Shan, the daughter of a spiteful Chine…
Film

Free the Mind

Directed by Phie AmboWe’ve seen plenty of documentaries that seek to reveal the benefits of alternative therapies. Often these films are informative but unengaging. So Phie Ambo’s …
Film

Bidder 70

Directed by Beth Gage and George GageIn 2008, the environmental activist Tim DeChristopher disrupted a land-rights auction for oil and gas companies by posing as a bidder and offer…
Film

Hannah Arendt

Directed by Margarethe von TrottaMargarethe von Trotta’s new film about the secular Jewish German thinker Hannah Arendt is not your standard biopic. Arendt’s life was, of course, a…
Music

Soul March

Chandrika Krishnamurthy TandonSoul Chants MusicTwo hundred forty miles. That’s the trek thousands of satyagraha activists made with Mahatma Gandhi during the 1930 Salt March to end…
Music

The Best of 25 Years

The Tibetan Healing Music of Nawang KhechogArtist: Nawang Khechog; Produced by: Sounds TrueNawang Khechog was born in the Kham region of the Tibetan Plateau, where his family …
Music

Everything Is Broken

Songs about Things as They AreAlan SenaukeSonic Zen RecordsTake a close look at the photo of Alan Senauke on his new album, Everything Is Broken, and you may notice a dark bump on …
Music

Mala

Devendra BanhartNonesuch RecordsI first heard about singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart from the visual artist Camille Rose Garcia, who said his gentle-hearted folk songs “pulled me…