Civility
Being kind includes awareness of our actions and their impact, including the degree to which we protect each other’s dignity through thoughtful actions and speech. Find ancient teachings about and contemporary depictions of what it means to be civil, as well as suggestions for how to develop this essential quality through articles, blog posts, books, films, quotes, and more.
Climate Change
Join us in tackling this environmental, economic, and social problem as a central element of spiritual activism. These quotes, e-course, spiritual practices, films, books, organizations, teachers, and memes about global warming and climate change call us to change our habits and ideas to actions that embody kindness toward the world around us and those with whom we share it.
Conversations
Find and create a spirit of kindness in your conversations with an array of resources. These articles, blog posts, book reviews, book excerpts, film reviews, prayers, quotes, spiritual practices, and websites on the art of conversation will enrich your ability to share and listen, facilitate understanding yourself and others, and foster deeper connections.
Empathy
Mine the depth of wisdom that is emerging from research as well as personal experiences of empathy. These practices, articles, books, excerpts, quotes, and more about understanding and sharing the feelings of others will help you live with goodness, as well as understand the nuances of empathy and see what hope for the world it offers.
Enemies
Take a look at the nature of animosity and what we can do from our end to replace it with kindness, hospitality, openness, and compassion. These spiritual practices, articles, blogs, book excerpts and recommendations, film reviews, poems, prayers, quotes, teachings stories and more offer an abundance of methods to face and heal internal and external conflicts.
Generosity
Enjoy the intrinsic rewards of giving, like the high we get from helping others, upholding dignity and fairness, or building caring connections. These spiritual practices, articles, books, excerpts, quotes and more about giving from the heart will strengthen your practice of generosity, whether the kindnesses you share are monetary support, wisdom, nonjudgmental listening, or warm greetings with a smile.
Humility
Open a doorway to beauty, truth, learning, reconciliation, groundedness, community building, and life’s inexhaustible sweetness through humility. Through humility, we can let go of the stories we tell about ourselves, reach out to others with loving concern, and deepen our connection to the Divine. Book excerpts, prayers, quotes, teaching stories, and more deepen our understanding of humility and its value.
Racism
Gain a deeper understanding of racism in our world and develop empathy and compassion for its victims. These books, books excerpts, quotes, blog posts, personal explorations, and more provide antidotes to the fears and resentments at the root of racism through the spiritual practices of Compassion, Connections, Hope, Hospitality, Imagination, Justice, Kindness, Listening, Love, Meaning, Openness, Peace, Reverence, Shadow, Transformation, Unity, and X – The Mystery.
Respect
Practice being open, flexible, and willing to look again. These articles, books, prayers, spiritual practices, and other resources offer a pathway to practice greater kindness and respect for our bodies, our elders, the rights of others, nature, animals, places, and more.
Whales
Be wowed by the splendor of the Creation and moved to kindness for its creatures. This curated content on whales – books, children’s books, DVDs, quotes, excerpts, prayers, and organizations defending them – gives you a good sampling of all the many ways to appreciate these marvelous mammals.
