Respect

Respect is a much-neglected virtue.Respect is personal space. When we do not give ourselves respect, we open doors and windowsin different aspects of our being, and these spaces fill upand become the lack of respect from others towards us. The key to respect lies...

Discovering Our Shadows in Exile

Beside the streams of Babylon, we sat and wept.—Psalm 137:1 Father Richard Rohr reflects on the fear, violence, and oppression that empires and nation-states continue to create, challenging us to respond: Few would deny that there’s a palpable and growing fear and...

Being Kind–and Believing Others are Kind–Makes you Happier Than Wealth:

Believing that a wallet will be returned if dropped in public is one of the most important indicators of well-being and happiness. In fact, it’s 7 times more impactful that doubling your income, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 just released this week....

The Growing Movement to Embrace Aging

May I drop the hectic and impossible challenge of keeping up with the Jones’, the latest news, the latest book “I just must read,” and the latest fashion of this or that. May they just fall by their own weight, and may I stand, in the simple elegance of one who has...

I choose joy over judgment, creativity over slumbering in the mundane, and kindness over criticism

by Mara Branscombe* Comment from Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com: The greatest gift we have received is the gift of choice, or what is also known as free will. We can choose to be kind, or not. We can choose to be loving, or not. It’s always our...