Radical Friendship by Kate Johnson For many of us, friendship is the soft place we land when the world is hard. For Kate Johnson, friendship is also a spiritual discipline and a technology, one that can help us survive an unjust world and transform it. In Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your

How to Respond to Evil An Excerpt from Sweeter Than Revenge by David Richo We open our discussion with a powerful statement from Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, former head of the Jesuit order, in his 1973 Address to Graduates of Jesuit Schools in Europe: Most of us would be relatively good in a good world.

The Two Arrows An Excerpt from Being with Dying By Joan Halifax About This Title Everyone who lives must inevitably face death. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings and decades of work with the dying and their caregivers, this landmark work on death and dying by beloved Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax is a source of wisdom

Fostering Spiritual Kinship Reflections from Pamela Ayo Yetunde, author of Casting Indra’s Net For all the wonderful things people think Buddhism is about, I believe Buddhist practitioners remain under-resourced when it comes to interfaith (and by this I also mean interreligious) leadership and dialogue. Many things are said about Buddhism: it’s a world religion, it’s

Gentling the Inner Critic As you left their voice behind The stars began to burn Through. . . . —Mary Oliver, “The Journey”   Our inner critic is the part of us that has given up on us. It hurls “can’ts” and “shoulds” at us: You can’t go. You can’t make it alone. You should

Sign up to receive hand-picked advice on life, love, and relationships from psychotherapist, teacher, and bestselling author David Richo. With over 50 years of experience as a psychotherapist, David Richo is a leading relationship expert whose work has touched hundreds of thousands of hearts and lives. Blending Western psychology and Eastern spirituality, he offers a

Relationships as a Spiritual Practice A Q&A with David Richo, author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships What does it mean to be an “adult” in relationships? Firstly, what does it mean to be an “adult?” To be an adult is to learn to play for ourselves the roles the functional family was

A Few Thoughts about Suffering An excerpt from Peace from Anxiety As you can see from the discussion of trauma, suffering comes in many flavors. It can be rooted in personal, interpersonal, or systemic issues. Some suffering is inevitable—things like death, illness, and loss touch everyone in their lifetime. Some of us are protected from

The material in Peace from Anxiety can be much more impactful when approached in an interactive and exploratory way. It is especially powerful when you can engage with the material with others. This is your guide to working with the concepts in this book with a small, trusted group of people. There are many ways

5 Free Tools to Release Stress and Anxiety Reclaim your capacity to heal and learn to regulate your nervous system with practices and reflections from therapist and yoga teacher Hala Khouri, author of Peace from Anxiety. Draw a body map, learn to feel your emotions with curiosity, and shift your limiting beliefs with this collection