It’s the smell of cigarettes, gin and sweat acrid smoke from incinerating bodies salt of blood and sweet perfume turned sour The sound of a tree branch creaking from the… Read More
Category: Courage
Seeds of Truth
When your truth forsakes its shyness, when your fears surrender to your strengths, you will begin to experience that all existence is a teeming sea of infinite life. –Hafiz, from… Read More
Learning to Listen From the Heart
I just returned from co-leading a training for a group of almost 70 students, supervisors and program staff for a new Hillel campus leadership program called Ask Big Questions. It… Read More
How to Be Wise and Courageous
One of my favorite Buddhist teachers, Pema Chodron, tweeted this recently: "If you ask people whom you consider to be wise and courageous about their lives, you may find that… Read More
Gifts for the Soul
I just returned from a gathering of over one hundred facilitators from the Center for Courage and Renewal, and to say that I came home feeling more courageous and… Read More