“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.” Not often — a handful of times in a lifetime, if you are lucky — you come upon a work of thought and feeling — a book, a painting, a song — that becomes a fountain to which…
If you are curious about simplicity and minimalism, you may want to understand the difference between the two. You want to be clear about the lifestyle change you are making. When I started to simplify my life,… The post The Difference Between Simplicity and Minimalism appeared first on Be More with Less.
New data could move meditation from a private practice to a measurable public health tool for addressing stress, loneliness, and burnout.
A psychiatrist’s team wanted to send a Black autistic boy to the ER. She knew what would happen if he went. A new resource could help other families see the danger before it’s too late.
“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.” If death is so enormous a mystery that we remain unable to wrap our grownup minds around it, despite comfort from our great poets and consolation from our great philosophers, how are tiny humans to make sense of it all? Although there exist some…
As an undergraduate I participated in a faculty-student debate about artificial intelligence. While the details of the debate have faded from my non-artificial mind, I vividly recall one exchange. The professor on the opposing side claimed I believed in free will because I wanted to take credit for my successes. Filled with the pride of…
“The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a truth nowhere more bittersweet than in the creature whose body is the oldest unchanged musical instrument on Earth: a tiny mandolin silent for most of its existence, then sonorous with a fleeting symphony of…
How to “include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border.” Life is an ongoing dance between the subjective reality of what it feels like to be alive, to tremble with grief, to be glad — what it feels like to be you — and the objective…
Personal Perspective: When I feel the pain of grief, my tears transform into words cathartically laced together.
Winnicott’s transitional objects theory reframes card collecting as psychological — cards become containers for memory, identity, and connection across generations.
