Whose energy am I using?

Have you ever had a difficult interaction where you found yourself overreacting, moving quickly from irritation to anger?  Or instead of acknowledging your differences, you harshly judged…

“There is no wealth but life”

Are you muttering a sarcastic comment as you read this quote from 19th century art critic John Ruskin? It’s undoubtedly true that life could be a…

Crooked Things

It’s time to celebrate crooked things. We often seek perfection but will we ever get it all straight? I don’t think so. Maybe we once believed…

Smarter Faster Better?

When Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Charles Duhigg talks about productivity, he’s not just talking about efficiency and profits and time management. To him, what it means to…

The Power of Positive Emotions

Rick Hanson weaves a close connection between new discoveries in neuroscience about the brain and the millennial exercises Buddhist monks engage in to clarify the mind…