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My wonderful stack of wordless children’s books, thanks to all of your thoughtful and incredibly helpful recommendations! 📚 I am so blown away by how many responses we got, and I wanted to share with you the list of over 80 (!!) wordless books, a collection of yours and my favorites. I wish I could take them all. Thank you Diesel Bookstore for carrying so many of these great titles, just in time for my trip! 🧳 Heading to Nepal brimming with books and gratitude 💌
Compassion toward absolutely everyone doesn’t condone wrongdoing or excuse bad behavior, nor does it ask us to feel differently than the way we feel. All agendaless compassion asks is that we incline our hearts and minds in its direction —that we lean toward the light like sunflowers angle toward the sun.
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features on amazing friends and colleagues in the mindfulness community that you should know
Meet Noa Jones, the author of How Do You Know What You Know? Noa is the executive director of Middle Way Education and is currently working in Asia, advising on projects aimed at starting schools and sharing curriculum across different cultures.
With his new book, Into the Mirror, Andy Karr brings ancient insights to the 21st century, showing how Buddhist principles can help liberate our minds from the stickiness of materialism and delusion.
To many Western eyes, monasticism looks about as “real world” as a Jane Austen novel. But to teacher/author Oren Jay Sofer, who spent two and a half years in a Thai Buddhist monastery as part of his spiritual training, the skills of contemplative practice are ideal preparation for living in a flawed, fast-moving world. Even the title of his new book—Your Heart Was Made for This—affirms his view of embracing the world, not escaping it. In many ways, it’s a natural follow-up to his first book, Say What You Mean, which applies mindfulness and meditation skills to effective communication. By deepening that skill set, Sofer now shows how we can live with hope and gratitude in our complicated world of AI, war, climate change and click-bait—all of which became a lot more immediate and personal to Sofer himself when he recently became a first-time father.
Discover the wisdom of balancing self-care with caring for others. Learn why prioritizing your mental health is essential in the face of modern parenting stresses, as highlighted by the U.S. Surgeon General.