Signals Even GPS Cannot Detect
Aylie Baker
Returning to the US was always hard for me, in part because I began to notice how GPS technology was eroding what was left of our wayfinding capabilities. In the spring of 2013, I flew from Palau back...
Two Kinds Of Resistance
Rhonda Fabian
The light begins its slow return to places in the North, and today a new year begins. Some people are saying it is already “too late” – climate chaos, species loss, war, disparity...
My Word Of The Year
Nancy Gibbs
My word of the year is listen. It’s one of those words whose meaning is in its music. Listen is a quiet word, that half swallowed L and diffident I and softly hissing S. It defies the clamoro...
Who Is My Neighbor?
Ivan Illich
Some thirty years ago, I went into sermons from the early third century into the nineteenth century dealing with this story of the Samaritan, and I found out that most preachers, when they comment on ...
How Observation Changes Relationships
Vimala Thakar
When we sit in silence what do we do? We sit and observe the voluntary and involuntary activities of the body and mind. Slowly the voluntary activities come to an end, but the involuntary activities...
Three Stages Of Perceiving Impermanence
Shinzen Young
Impermanence is just appreciating the normal changing-ness of each experience at deeper levels of poignancy. One way to think about this is in terms of three aspects of impermanence: the trivial, the ...
The New And Ancient Story Of Interbeing
Charles Eisenstein
Why does the sun shine? A random result of coalescing gases igniting nuclear fusion? Or is it in order to give its light and warmth to Life? Why does the rain fall? Is it the senseless product of blin...
Preparing For The Extraordinary: An Essential Practice
Alan Briskin
Preparing for the extraordinary is one of the [...] essential practices of collective wisdom. It requires clear intention and mindful preparation for achieving a greater felt sense of connection...
The Root Of The Root Of Your Self
Rumi
Don’t go away, come near. Don’t be faithless, be faithful. Find the antidote in the venom. Come to the root of the root of yourself. Molded of clay, yet kneaded from the substance o...
Uniform Corn-Rows In High-Tech Isolation
Robin Wall Kimmerer
I live in the lush green farm country of upstate New York, in a town that likely has more cows than people. Most everyone I know grows something: apples, hops, grapes, potatoes, berries, and lots of c...
Attention Is Inseparable From Interrogation
Michel de Salzmann
Our attention is much more than we generally think. It is much more than a simple mental or cerebral mechanism. It concerns our whole being. If its potentialities are far from being fully actualized i...
No Rush, No Dawdle: The Secret Of Proper Timing
Tom Maxwell
The present is truly the only place we exist. What we call the past is a construct of memory, the recollection of which constitutes a present experience. According to author Alan Watts, the futur...