The Work of Grief and Love

Buddhist teacher and environmental activist Joanna Macy (1929–2025) identifies four stages of work that support our ongoing participation in the healing of the world:  The spiral of the Work That Reconnects maps out an empowerment process that journeys through four...

Awakening to Your Cosmic Purpose

By Nicolae Tanase – Excellence Reporter on June 7, 2025 Excellence Reporter is a unique, contemplative online journal and multimedia platform dedicated to exploring one of humanity’s most enduring questions: “What is the meaning of life?” Founded and curated...

Be Brave and Be Yourself

Excerpt from How To Rise Above the Dark Days of Life, Innerself.com magazine, July 28, 2025, By Marie T. Russell Each one of us is unique. We are the only person like us in the whole Universe. So, when we try to be like someone else, not only are we not being true to...

A Collective Impact

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis considers how individual decisions create collective change:  All of us must face and embrace the urgent need for deep social change—change that begins within, then spreads like ripples on a pond, and finally becomes a tsunami of love-inspired...

Change Through Relationship

In this interview for the Daily Meditations, Sikh activist and author Valarie Kaur places love at the center of our ability to bring about wholeness in a divided world: What does it mean to return to a kind of wholeness where the way that we love informs what we do in...