Nancy Wait | Tiferet Community Featured Member
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As I...
Some thoughts on “purpose”
Each of us comes into life with an inborn, inherent felt-sense of the purpose for which we are “here.” Whether we bring this purpose to life or not is up to us. As Thoreau...
See Deep Wants by Rick Hanson Ph.D.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’re the deepest wants of all?
The Practice:
See deep wants.
Why?
I did my Ph.D. dissertation by videotaping 20 mother-toddler pairs and analyzing what happened when the mom offered an alternative to...
Will You Be My Mother?
I had been in Rwanda for a month, tracing the footsteps of the genocide in the ten thousand hills. This was my last morning, alone in the genocide museum near Kigali. The perfect place...
The Mnemosyne Weekly: Poem Twenty-Six (Wilbur)
Richard Wilbur
"Apology"
From Things of This World I've long admired Richard Wilbur's beautiful poetry, which is playful, formal, and perfectly polished. This poem, which I pulled from New and Collected Poems, but which originally appeared in Things of This World, is a little...
Lighten Up by Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
LIGHTEN UP What’s weighing you down?
The Practice:
Lighten up.
Why?
On the path of life, most of us are hauling way too much weight.
What’s in your own backpack? If you’re like most of us, you’ve got too many...
addendum: on i-it and the god we repress
god is the between of an i and a thou, and it is precisely this existential dialogue with all that exists, our "essential deed" as buber called it, that which we repress within us...
Harnessing the Power of Time
One day about five years ago, when Barak Obama was running for president the first time, I heard him talking on the radio about wind power. He said that the wind is a cheap,...
Anthony Lawlor | Tiferet Community Featured Member
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Kathy Kottaras | Tiferet Community Featured Member
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Introducing Kathy Kottaras
I...