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Cultivating the Good Life
Teacher Wisdom
To be human is about regaining what has been lost in the shuffle when life has been relegated to keeping score and making waves. To be human is about cultivating the good life. To …
The Grip of Jealous Love
By Keesha Joseph
I grew up in a pretty average household with a more or less functional family. My mother showered me with a touch of her love every day, while my father — although a ghostly f…
The Challenge from the Crib
Literary Wisdom
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh,
and the greatness that does not bow before children.
— Kahlil Gibran, essayist, novelist,…
Playing Hide and Seek with God
I've been playing hide and seek with God most of my life. Sometimes I hide from God and sometimes God hides from me. I think I've discerned a pattern: Whenever I become confident that God is found i…
Paying Attention, Prayer Flags, and Relaxing Yourself
As the summer sun bears down upon us, I turn to the ever edifying and adventuresome harvest of quotations from the books I read and recommend.
The first two are from Barbara Brown Taylor, an Angl…
Hold on to What Is Good
Native American Wisdom
Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands alone.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it i…
A Leap of Faith
Music Lyrics
It takes a leap of faith to get things going
It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts
It takes a leap of faith to get things going
In your heart you must trust
— Bruce…
Great Unity
By Ralph Wang in the KidSpirit Unity and Division issue.
Throughout human history, there have been many attempts to explain society and make the world a better place. Great Unity is one of them. …
The Spaciousness of Uncertainty
In the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.
— Rebecca Solnit
In her book Hope in the Dark, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit argues a strong and eloquent case for uncertainty. Un…
I Dwell in Possibility: Joining the Circus as a Spiritual Practice
I'm the kid who ran away with the circus. Now I’m watering elephants. But I sometimes lie awake in the sawdust, dreaming I’m in a suit of light. Late at night in the empty big top I’m all a…