Archives for September 15, 2015

Education of the Heart

“My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call education of the heart. Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopefully that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will […]

Uncertainty is Liberating

yada Uncertainty is Liberating “No one really knows what will happen from one moment to the next: who will we be, what will we face, and how will we respond to what we encounter? We don’t know, but there’s a good chance we will encounter some rough, unwanted experiences, some surprises beyond our imaginings, and […]

Mindfulness Reconnects Us With Our Center

These words of wisdom from George Mumford teach us how mindfulness reconnects us with our center and the space between stimulus and response. His work with athletes is quite well known. “Think about the eye of a hurricane, or the calm still center in the middle of a cyclone. No matter how intense the storm […]