In this poem, Rumi reminds us to welcome unwanted thoughts and emotions as opportunities to grow.
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"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being.
Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it.
Howard Thurman writes here about the "meaning of the religious experience as it involves the individual totally, which means inclusive of feelings and emotions."
We are speaking with Nancy Mellon, an elder in the global storytelling renaissance, a psychotherapist and a former Waldorf teacher who now lives in California.
Have you ever had an ache or pain, and wished your body could talk to you and tell you what was wrong? You’re not alone! Master storyteller Nancy Mellon, author of Body Eloquence, has guided scores of people through the process of giving their bodies a voice.
When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people’s problems as our own.
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The ancient art of storytelling revealed in Storytelling and the Art of Imagination shines as a powerful antidote to today’s passive, solitary world of electronic entertainment.
Still clinging to the fears and fury of childhood? You can unarrest your development once and for all.
Necessity being the mother of invention, it struck me that contemplation didn’t depend on a particular practice.
What can Marcus Aurelius teach us about being successful?
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