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What Fulfillment Means to Me
By Nathan Zhang for KidSpirit's Fulfillment issue.
There are 800 kilometers between the cities of Beijing and Kaifeng, a lengthy gap mercifully shortened by the invention of rail. What was origin…
The Spiritual Life
Quaker Wisdom
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
— Parker Palmer, Founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal
Welcome to the Practicing Democracy Blog
Democracy is more than a system of government; it is a way of life. We can assess the vitality of a democracy by how well it is serving the people's needs and hopes. But a democracy's health is best…
The Main Thing
Slogan
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
— Stephen Covey, American educator and businessman
The Sacred in One's Back Yard
Literary Wisdom
All for one and one for all.
— Alexandre Dumas in The Three Musketeers
Prayer
In times of joy or sorrow,
blessed be my tears,
the holy prayers of my heart.
— Edward …
The Ethics of the Interfaith Movement
By Akash Mehta in KidSpirit's The God Issue.
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What does it mean to live a good human life?
There, in a sentence, is perhaps the most i…
The Art of Using a Book
"Using a book, not reading it, makes us wise" is a motto from Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes published in 1586. Reading it, I smile knowingly, thinking of my habit of nurturing a pragmatic re…
The Art of Being Wise
Literary Wisdom
What is the meaning of life? The great revelation . . . never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
— Virg…
Skimming & Sharing
In an article in The New York Times, Karl Taro Greenfield is quite astonished to discover that more and more people are not reading books, newspapers, or magazines anymore but instead are picking up…
Robots in Our Future
The word robot was coined in 1921 from the Czech word "robotta" meaning compulsory labor. Since then, we've been treated to a variety of science fiction tales about these technological creations. Th…