“It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature. The ratio was 21:1. Even those supreme perpetrators of pop...”

“Quoting geneticists, Guy Murcia says were all family. You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no one on Earth is further removed than your fiftieth cousin. Murcia also d...”

“If youre really listening, if youre awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so it ...”

“The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or feeling-thinking to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo ...”

“Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things.”

“The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each...”

“Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come t...”

“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.”

“We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.”

“Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (...”

“Pull a thread here and youll find its attached to the rest of the world.”

“Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of tim...”