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Confronting Ageism
In 1968 gerontologist Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" to describe the many ways in which society discriminates against the old. Maggie Kuhn formed the Gray Panthers in 1972 as a network of ol…
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…
Honoring Everyone and Every Thing
Catholic Wisdom
Spiritual sensitivity heightens when we know how to see, touch, and taste the physical world with exquisite reverence and contemplative discipline.
—Tessa Bielecki in Holy Dar…
Wherever You Live Is Your Temple
Buddhist Wisdom
Wherever you live is your temple if you treat it like one.
— Buddha
African-American Wisdom
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.
— Satc…
Everything Flows
Buddhist Wisdom
Nothing lasts, nothing can be counted on, everything changes. That is another way of saying that we can’t control anything in our world.
Everything is continually slipping awa…
Aging and the Wisdom of Trees
“From wonder into wonder, existence opens.”
—Lao Tzu
I dreaded turning sixty. For months before my birthday, I imagined a fire-breathing dragon lurking around the corner, waiting to …
Honoring Marion Woodman
Marion Woodman, a psychoanalyst, best-selling author, and popular explorer of the varied stages of female identity and growth, died on July 9 in London, Ontario. She was 89.
In the early 1970s, a…
Patience Within God’s Time
By Aliana Kernisan
How do I approach the idea of time as a Christian living in a traditional city in Haiti?
Gratitude to Robert Bly
Robert Bly, who died November 21, 2021, at the age of 94, had a tremendous impact on our spiritual lives and, we suspect, on the spiritual journeys of many of our website visitors. Here's a profile …