Honoring Simple Moments or Embracing New Experiences? The Importance of Both At The Same Time
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place…
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Service to Others Would Be Easy…If Satisfying Needs Wasn’t Such An Ethical Challenge
What is service? On the surface, it sounds so simple: the act of identifying needs and working to fulfill them. Service is often thought of…
Welcome To The Family: Hospitality As A Spiritual Practice
A 2007 study by political scientist RD Putnam discovered that people are more likely to socially retreat when in ethnically diverse environments. Our tendency…
The Fourth Chakra: The Heart in Balance
In Ancient Egypt, the Goddess Maat was the weigher of souls in the underworld. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, it describes how…
Beyond Westworld: TV’s Invitation To Higher-Quality Guilt
Teddy Flood, from HBO’s Westworld, is a character with a mysterious backstory. Handsome, brooding, a cowboy, and on TV – of course he’s got…
Tweaking Our Compassion Computer – Part II: Practice
Stefan Ravalli continues his series, Tweaking Our Compassion Computer, with Part II: Practice. To cultivate our ability to connect to the other, one way of doing…
Tweaking Our Compassion Computer: Part I
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” We’ve all been hearing that expression since we were kids. It’s an unquestioned means of cautioning…