The Jewish religious leader Rebbe Nachman said that the pathway to our true destiny is joy. Joy and enthusiasm are important aspects of the spiritual path, and are needed now more then...
“The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.” Martin Buber “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service...
As always, don’t treat these questions like “homework” or a list that needs to be covered in its entirety. Instead, simply pick the one question that speaks to you most and let...
Five Photos in Five Days The poet Mary Oliver writes, “Every day, I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in...
The classic Joy to the World by Three Dog Night From the Boston NPR radio station, a podcast with writer and activist Adrienne Maree Brown on finding joy during the coronavirus From...
True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key. Johnathan Jena Jena is right. Liberation is much more complicated than we usually tell ourselves. It would...
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Camus The role of the artist is to...
Have you become more or less free as you’ve aged? In what ways? For you, what is the opposite of liberation? Have you experienced this in your life? Is the strategy you...
The Mess That Set You Free Alanis Morissette’s song, Thank U, functions like a gratitude prayer to the many unexpected sources of liberation in her life: “Thank you India Thank you terror...
What Does it Mean to be a Family of Liberation? Educator Cosmo Fujiyama, in her TED talk, “Learning as Liberation,” advocates consciously building in “pause-and-get-perspective moments” into one’s life. Coming from a...
