Previously unpublished commentary from Alan Watts, a pioneer of East-West spirituality.
The Turn of the Dial: Seeking God in the Fringes, by Susan Ishmael
A tale of snake handlers, faith healers, and speakers in tongues.
If You Want To Be a Rebel, Be Kind, by Nipun Mehta
The night before, Pancho Ramos Stierle heard about growing tensions in the community and thought, “If police are stepping up their violence, we need to go and step up our nonviolence.”
Four Meditations on Seeing, by David Appelbaum
The student of seeing has to unlock the mystery first, Eckhart tells us, and it begins—here, now—with the question of who is seeing.
Seeing is an Act, by Jeanne de Salzmann
Rare wisdom on “how to see.”
The Flight from Disunity: Thomas Merton on Suffering, by Vanessa Hurst
“Some men believe in the power and value of suffering,” writes Thomas Merton. “But their belief is an illusion. Suffering has no power, no value of its own.”
Let Them Be, by Luis Fernando Llosa
America’s children are being robbed of their childhood. It’s as simple as that.
The Search for One Thing, by Betsy Cornwell
“Give it one week of hard frost,” my new husband says, “and all the green will be gone.” He has slowed the car to let two adolescent does cross the road, and we watch them vanish neatly into the ditch on the other side. […]
Love and Compassion in Meditation and Action, by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
Love and compassion are qualities essential to our stature as true human beings, and jointly might be considered the capacities that most distinguish us from the animals, except that animals sometimes display more kindness towards one another—and towards people—than we do.
The Compassionate Warrior, by Elsa Marston
This was the time in his life that Abd el-Kader had intended to devote to peaceful pursuits such as prayer, teaching, and charitable deeds. He might have turned his back on the growing tensions in Damascus: It would not have been unreasonable. Yet he could not escape the world around him, or the role that fate seemed to have cut out for him. Nor did he choose to.