I recently read a lovely teaching about the "disease of being busy" by Professor Omid Safi from Duke University. He wrote that when asked "how are you?" so many of us reply with choruses of "I'm so busy...I'm crazy busy...so much going on..." He shared that there is a Persian and Islamic custom that instead of asking "how are you" one asks "how is your Continue Reading
Siri and I: We’ve Been Friends…(evidently…)
True story: I was talking to my husband Ely the other day about the candidates for the November election. We were sitting at the dining room table, my Iphone next to me. All of a sudden Siri (the Iphone "assistant") just started answering me! She said "I don't understand" and then she repeated the whole run-on sentence that I evidently was in the Continue Reading
A Hidden Wholeness
Parker Palmer, the great educator and philosopher writes about Thomas Merton's statement: "..there is in all things...a hidden wholeness..."* And he goes on to quote Mary Oliver, the poet: "This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know...that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness." In our tradition, the Kabbalists and Continue Reading
Go Forth With An Open Heart – Lech Lecha*
Go – Go with a free heart, with open palms, with no expectations; Trust – That what is shown to you is exactly what you need to learn, even though at first glance, it may not seem so… Be – In the mystery of what is unfolding before your eyes; Know – That real truth is not embedded in a particular place, but travels with you, and will be Continue Reading
“We Can’t Allow Ourselves to Fall Into the Pit”
July 21, 2014 Today, I was fortunate to be on a conference call with an individual who spoke to my heart and my head and helped me remember and re-commit to what I have always believed: violence can never be the solution to resolving conflict or creating real lasting change. I have been asked by many people who were unable to be on the call with Dr. Continue Reading
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