Miscellaneous
The three keys to activating your life purpose
Millions of people right now are experiencing a yearning and desire to awaken to their unique gifts and offer them in service to the world—while living a life of joy and fulfillment. It's a surging of the human spirit, a virtual global awakening, at a scale no one has ever seen before. Simply Read More...
From coca to tourism
The Caribbean beaches of northern Colombia are a brilliant white and, aside from the occasional Kogi Indian, deserted. The perfect place for the tourist who isn’t scared off by the Colombian reputation for guns and guerrillas—or by coca farmers. In the mountainous jungle that borders the Read More...
The Goosefoot Revolution
In the sand sits a blue truck. Beside it, bulging sacks wait to be loaded. In a field near the village of Buena Vista in southwestern Bolivia, the quinoa harvest is in full swing. Men lay cut stalks on the ground so they can run over them with the truck. Then they separate the grains from the Read More...
How to restore love
Say someone asks you to dance—but he’s never done this particular dance before and neither have you. While you’re dancing, intense emotions surface in both of you for inexplicable reasons. The result is an overwhelming sense of isolation from your partner. This, says couples therapist Sue Read More...
Thank you
Anne Kubitsky receives lots of postcards. Lots and lots of postcards. That’s not just because the artist and writer from Old Lyme, Connecticut, has so many friends. It’s because she invited others to show their gratitude by mailing it to her. When she launched the Look for the Good Project a Read More...
Occupy the theater
For almost two years now, 60 actors and theater technicians have been occupying Rome’s Teatro Valle. During that time, the site of Teatro Valle Occupato (“Occupy Teatro Valle”) has become the most visited theater in the city. Teatro Valle, built in 1726 between the Pantheon and Piazza Navona, Read More...
Out now: The Consciousness Issue
We need something new. The daily news makes the case for very different approaches and solutions. Whether it is the next storm of the century that some say is linked to our own behavior, the political stalemate in the U.S., the financial system that keeps failing most people or expensive Read More...
The legacy of the Occupy movement
Now that the tents are packed up and the banners put away, what’s left of Occupy? Are disillusionment and disappointment with a movement that undertook to change everything but did not achieve any real change all that remain? Laments about a lack of clear demands, a political agenda, Read More...
Simply being kind
Smile at a stranger, bring a treat to a co-worker or let someone else go in front of you in a line. As it turns out, these random acts of kindness could make you a happier person. A few years ago, Stanford University psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky asked students to carry out five weekly Read More...
The power of persistence
When Luchia Ghebreselasie arrived at the Literacy Council of Montgomery County in Rockville, Maryland, to enroll in an English program, the teachers knew it was going to be an uphill battle. It had only been a few years since Ghebreslasie and her family had been sponsored to immigrate to the Read More...