OTHER POSTS
NYT: Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91
On May 25, 1948, a former United States Army flier entered the American Embassy in Paris, renounced his American citizenship and, as astonished officials looked on, declared himself a citizen of the world. In the decades that followed, until the end of his long life last week, he remained by choice a stateless man — […]
What, in your opinion, is the distinction between silence, meditation and contemplation?
Emotionally Durable Design
This isn’t a debate on global warming, instead it is a discussion about creating products that lead to more conscious, connected consumers. “During the past 60 years, humans have stripped the world of a quarter of its topsoil and a third of its forest cover. In total, one third of the planet’s resources have been […]
Why Matthieu Ricard is one of the happiest monks alive
Originally published on the yoga blog. Matthieu Ricard has been a Buddhist monk for some 40 years since he left his life as a molecular geneticist in the 1960′s. He left it all behind to live a life of renunciation in the Himalayas. It was during this time, he says, that he learned how to be […]