This poem by Walt Whitman celebrates the sacred role of women and motherhood.
In respect of copyright, we cannot display the poem here. Click the link to read it.
Read on poets.org
CLEAR ALL
Ram Dass shares a revealing piece of wisdom that looks at how we find ourselves stuck in-between the stories of the past, served to us through culture, religion and politics, and what we are discovering to be true about the nature of things.
Meridian University Chancellor Jean Houston discusses a new story for higher education.
Omega cofounder Elizabeth Lesser opens the 2019 Women & Power Conference with a tribute to Toni Morrison and an exploration of one of her favorite Morrison quotes, "As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
In this video with NEXT for Women, Lesser states that the desire to be nice to everyone is still locked into the DNA of women. You can be kind and fierce, but not nice and fierce, and that it is almost always impossible to advance in one's career if they attempt this.
How can emotional intelligence help us be better leaders? Are we really aware of how we manage ourselves and our relationships? In this video, Daniel Goleman explains the best strategies to improve our emotional intelligence to create better long-term relationships.
1
His Holiness the Dalai Lama talks about "The power of Women" after receiving Dayawati Modi Award for Art, Culture and Education at Sri Sathya Sai International Center in New Delhi, India, on December 2nd, 2011.
The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century.
In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.
No one writes like Wendell Berry. Whether essay, novel, story, or poem, his inimitable voice rings true, as natural as the land he has farmed in Kentucky for over 40 years.