Pilar Jennings on how to overcome two common roadblocks to compassion. The key is facing the truth of suffering—your own and others.
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Love Letter to the Earth
The earth is you. You are the earth. When you realize there is no separation, says the late Thich Nhat Hanh, you fall completely in love with this beautiful planet.
How Can I Get My Teenager to Meditate?
If you want the teens in your life to benefit from mindfulness practice, the first step, says Dzung X. Vo, is to have a strong practice yourself.
Phoebe Bridgers: Her Music as Meditation
Ray Buckner on how Grammy nominee Phoebe Bridgers’ music is a spiritual friend, a path forward into the unknown.
On the Trail of Birth and Death
“How many times have I felt that I couldn’t bear the heartbreak,” says Barbara Gates. “But here I am still hiking strong.”
A Tale of Two Crises
Rachel Neumann on what it was like to simultaneously navigate the pandemic and the wildfires that ravaged the West Coast.
Jarboe on Flying Lotus’s Album “Your Dead!”
The best music opens our hearts and minds. Jarboe on how Flying Lotus lyrically and sonically explores liberation.
The Music in My Heart
For Michael Imperioli, ANOHNI’s voice is a reminder that he’s part of a vast interconnected network of minds and beings. Her voice makes him feel emotions he never knew he had.
Hip-Hop Wisdom
Run the Jewels demands its listeners look outward as much as inward. Annaka Gale on this legendary hip-hop duo.
True Liberation
Tracy Franz on a diverse and inspiring selection of new Buddhist books.