Sprouting Seeds of Compassion
Can one person really make a difference? Marc Ian Barasch plants a seed of good intention... Read More
Can one person really make a difference? Marc Ian Barasch plants a seed of good intention... Read More
Polly Young-Eisendrath is a Jungian psychoanalyst and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont. She is the author of The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance. Read More
Miriam Greenspan is the author of A New Approach to Women and Therapy, and Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair. Read More
Misha Becker is a poet and hospice volunteer. In between sesshins at the Chapel Hill Zen Centre (her cats’ least favorite time of year) Becker teaches linguistics at the University of North Carolina. She received the precepts as a lay Buddhist in 2006. Read More
Brenda Shoshanna is a psychologist and a practitioner of Zen and Judaism. She is the author of Jewish Dharma and Zen and the Art of Falling in Love. Her work focuses on integrating East and West, and she offers workshops on relationships and personal and spiritual development. Read More
... 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
Lily Koppel wrote The Red Leather Diary, the true story of how she found a young woman’s 1930s diary in a dumpster and returned it to its now elderly owner. A Graduate of Barnard, Koppel studied Buddhism with Robert Thurman at Columbia University. Read More
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