Please Help Me Learn Who I Am
Barry Boyce reports on how contemplation can not only improve grades and decision-making skills, but also transform our system of education. Read More
Articles by Mindful Staff
Focus & Attention
Expert Interviews
It’s Not Helping
What can you do when compassion shows up as frustration? Karen Kissel Wegela on how to be present with our own helplessness. Read More
Magazine
Only the Lonely
When Meg Federico helped start up a program for lonely older people and their caregivers, she didn’t know what she was getting into: a goofy, loving atmosphere where people come to life and living in the present is the only option. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Surrendered to Love
How Martin Luther King's vision of life based on a love ethic could heal our wounded world. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Sprouting Seeds of Compassion
Can one person really make a difference? Marc Ian Barasch plants a seed of good intention... Read More
Magazine
Using the Energy of Anger
“Why is it so hard to awaken?” asks Ezra Bayda, author of At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace within Everyday Chaos. “In part it’s because the life force, or energy, necessary to awaken is leaking away from morning until night.” Read More
Expert Interviews
Coming Home
Michael Stroud, unsure about how to be both a Buddhist and a Jew, talks with well-known Buddhists who have returned home to Judaism. They’ve found it fulfilling to practice both Buddhism and the religion of their birth. Read More
Magazine
The Rabbi, the Buddhist, the activist…
... the businesswoman, and the writer Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary, reconnects with her childhood circle to explore the spiritual quest of a generation. Read More
Magazine
Thoughts from a Catholic Hermitage
Pico Iyer, author of Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign, on the time he spends at a Catholic hermitage, a place by the sea where creation unites with the light inside. Read More
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Mind, Matter, or God?
As the so-called new atheists go toe-to-toe with religious literalists, where do meditators stand? Barry Boyce reports on the middle way embracing both reason and the reality beyond it. Read More
