"One thing that you find in most of the great wisdom traditions is the idea that reality as we see it is an illusion, it’s a veil, it blinds us, and enlightenment is taking down the veil, seeing things as they are, transcending dualities. And that, I think, is really crucial for thinking about civility, because that’s what happened to me in writing this book and in doing this research."

~ Jonathan Haidt

6/15/14 6/15/14

Row for Your Life

6/10/14 6/10/14

Training Individual and Collective Adaptive Capacities

6/10/14 6/10/14

Your Story Was This

6/9/14 6/9/14

Poetry Can Help Us Live with Death

6/8/14 6/8/14

Fitness for the Mind

"If you are a company leader who says employees should be encouraged to exercise, nobody looks at you funny. The same thing is happening to meditation and mindfulness, because now that it's become scientific, it has been demystified. It's going to be seen as fitness for the mind."

~ Chade-Meng Tan

6/5/14 6/5/14

The Story

6/3/14 6/3/14

If We Didn't Try to Hold the Flux

“What both science and at least some philosophical and even religious traditions tell us is that the world is impermanent. Nothing in it stays the same. We don't stay the same. Our bodies don't stay the same. The people that we love and the things that we love don't stay the same. That's just the truth of the matter, that there's this constant impermanence, this constant flux. And some philosophers have argued over the years that we should just embrace that. We would be freer if we didn't try to hold that flux for a moment.”

Alison Gopnik

6/2/14 6/2/14

I'm Not Sitting Still

6/2/14 6/2/14

I was Made of Nows

5/26/14 5/26/14

Leadership is a Choice

5/25/14 5/25/14