Articles “Love Your Enemies!” What Does It Mean? Can It Be Done? by Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom,…
Articles Don’t Look for Joy by Robin Botie Joy is too elusive a thing to try to capture for oneself. It’s easier to…
Research All You Need is Love, Gratitude, and Oxytocin by Greater Good Science Center (February, 2014) A new study finds a biological mechanism behind “thank you"—and reveals one way…
Videos To Love and The Rise of Hope by Arundhati Roy (April, 2010) Activist and writer Arundhati Roy shares a poem "To Love" and her thoughts…
Videos Everyone is a Story by TED Nora Jaccaud's passion and deep honoring of the human spirit is provocative and inspiring. In…
Articles Standing our Sacred, Grateful Ground by Kristi Nelson Grateful living asks us to connect with those things that matter most deeply to us,…
Videos Wheelz in the Air: Hitting the Skatepark on a Wheelchair by Great Big Story A bold and inspiring example of grateful living! For the past 16 years, Aaron "Wheelz"…
Poetry An Ode to Silent Poets by Tesa Silvestre You see the precious gift of ordinary things as Pablo Neruda did, but need no…
Videos I Will Be a Hummingbird by Wangari Maathai (May, 2010) In this beautifully animated clip from Dirt! The Movie, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai…
Poetry The Stone of Heaven by Jane Hirshfield Here, where the rivers dredge up the very stone of Heaven, we name its colors—…
Videos What Forty Steps Taught Me About Love and Grief by Tembi Locke Actress Tembi Locke shares her story of passion, caregiving, grief, and deep soulful love that…
Poetry Blessing by Carrie Newcomer May you wake with a sense of play, An exultation of the possible. May you…