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We need to be our own guide. We can live a much more peaceful and happy life if we think about positive growth of ourselves and others, and its effects on the universe." -Hina Hashmi

Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

The character of society coincides with how we treat our most vulnerable members of society.

Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

The threads of logic, intuition, and humanity should be beautifully interwoven through the fabric of our world.

Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

Our real lasting legacies are the prints we leave on the soul of the world.

Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

The Kingdom of Heaven wants to rest in our hearts.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Nature is a beautiful divine force of artistic expression infusing love into our souls.

Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Your God Is Too Safe

When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

Young Men Shall See

Albert Einstein’s equation, E=MC2, is considered to be a theory. Despite being one, we have been able to use it to produce the energy we need to power our cities, as well as the bombs to destroy the same.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers. While many are being answered, what we really want to know is how we can make our lives better.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we ar...

The Zürau Aphorisms

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.

Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio

We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to li...

Arlie Russell Hochschild

To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and...

Bat for Lashes

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were ...

Bill Simmons

Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I a...

Collis Potter Huntington

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time...

Joshua Foer