Research
How Cultural Differences Shape Your Gratitude
Americans say thanks a lot, but other cultures may have a deeper understanding of gratitude.
Articles
On Pessimism and Optimism from “The Shadow”
The more we suppress the darkness within us, the more it leads a life of…
Articles
Deepening Our Comfort with Uncertainty
For everyone alive now, and for everyone who has ever lived, we are united in…
Practices
Exploring Haiku as Gratefulness Practice: A Practice Series
An eight-day practice inspired by Br. David Steindl-Rast's appreciation of haiku.
Articles
Grateful for the Dark Stuff Too
Orienting ourselves toward what works in our lives is perpetually rejuvenating. But that doesn’t mean…
Articles
Discovering the Sacred in Everyday Life
“Sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness.”Galway Kinnell Although you may not…
Articles
Cultivating a Practice: Grateful Living as a Way of Life
Cultivation is a form of practice and harnesses the energy of purposefulness. We can cultivate…
Poetry
To See It
We need to separateto see the life we’ve made,to leave our housewhere someone waits, patiently,warm…
Articles
The Poet of Awe
Years before Mindfulness took the world by storm, inviting us to savor the moment, Mary…
