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Take a moment to recall one of your most joyful memories. 

Now, close your eyes and relive it. Where were you? Who were you with? How did you feel? 

Focus on your senses. What did you see and hear? S…

After Lindsay Dahl graduated from college, she was seeking a job in the environmental non-profit space. Despite being passionate about climate change, she landed a role in consumer safety. Soon after…

When Sharon Salzberg was teaching at a meditation retreat, a student asked her: Has anyone ever died of restlessness in meditation? Sharon said: Not from one moment at a time of it. 

“We have physica…

While preparing for my interview with Dr.Thema Bryant, I was struck by an exercise she shared. During a podcast, she invited listeners to fill out the prompt: “I miss me who…” I was surprised by how …

The first time I read my favorite poem, On Prayer, this stanza stood out to me…

For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?

     And if it is for your comfort to pour your…

Before my interview with Katherine May, a Mary Oliver quote resurfaced that felt representative of Katherine’s work: “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and th…

Rabbi Sharon Brous was on her way to lead her community, IKAR—a Jewish community she founded 20 years ago with a new vision of how faith can center and connect us—in the sacred ceremony of Tashlikh, …

“When we are paying attention, we see how much love holds us invisibly.”

This is the line that stayed with me most from Anne Lamott’s new, and 20th book, Somehow: Thoughts on Love. I read it during …

Quentin Tarantino once said “I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent.  I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you’re not that good.  You just reached the level here.’  I don’…

‘When we can combine our urge to be happy with wisdom instead of ignorance it becomes a homing instinct for freedom.’

This is one of the insights I was most eager to explore with renowned Buddhist t…

Remembrance is the first step we take with renowned coach and Reboot CEO and Co-founder Jerry Colonna in his new book, Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong. At its heart, it’s an invitation …

When Parker Palmer was approaching his seventies, he turned to a group of trusted friends to help him understand “what it meant to grow older in this particular dimension of life.” The process birthe…

The soul’s liberation of realizing “I am” was amongst my first learnings from Zainab Salbi.

A world renowned humanitarian, Zainab founded Women for Women International when she was 23 and dedicated d…

“Be sincere; be brief; be seated”  These six words by Franklin D. Roosevelt, which I stumbled upon during my early days as a 22-year-old sales manager, have profoundly shaped my communication philoso…

“It is a high-stakes engagement to not miss the beauty of life.”

This is the invitation and guidance Jon Kabat-Zinn gifts us in today’s episode.

A mindfulness pioneer, Jon has played a foundational …

“If the soul is not in the body, where is the soul?”

I’ve always been intrigued by this question from Walt Whitman. So, it caught my attention when I heard Lauren Roxburgh say that our “fascia is tr…

“What choices will lead me to greater integration and wholeness?” renowned author, meditation pioneer, and teacher Sharon Salzberg asks in her latest book, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Op…

What if you could design your own, custom playbook to guide the pursuit of greatness in every aspect of your life?    

Not long ago, the notion of rewiring one’s biology was more sci-fi than reality;…

When I read the first few pages of Tiny Beautiful Things — a compilation of letters from Cheryl Strayed’s advice column, Dear Sugar — I immediately knew it was going to be healing. This wasn’t a surp…

Kevin Kelly is a renowned author, futurist, and technologist who has spent the past few decades exploring the intersection between technology, culture, and society. He is perhaps best known for his w…