“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”...
It was a blessing and privilege to have Joanna come to Rowe to teach for three decades, including a program on Rilke in 2015. Polly has been with us several times and is a frequent contributor to the Center Post. In this extraordinary conversation, they talk about her...
“When the inner and the outer are wedded, revelation occurs.” ~ Hildegard von Bingen For the last several years, a group of friends have entered a mostly silent retreat for several days over the new year. This year, on New Year’s Day we took a hike in the mist-jeweled...
Many of us are strongly drawn to storytellers who share their lived experience. There is something wildly captivating in the autobiographical accounts of men and women who wear their heart on their sleeve. Who stand up with dignity and share their stories no matter...
We lit the first Chanukah candle last night. As I sat, surrounded by children, grandchildren, and beloved cousins, I felt a new kind of glow. This has been a hard year for me. Alone in my New York apartment, I survived Covid and a dislocated elbow, and I have spent...
Over the last 15+ years, Ian has used a variety of media (film, writing, photography, podcasting) to amplify seedlings of emergent culture, from the desert of Burning Man to the heart of Occupy Wall St. His work spans the themes of activism, culture, and...
If you don’t know what a medical intuitive is, prepare for a moment of unorthodox thinking. A medical intuitive is someone with psychic abilities—stay with us—who uses those abilities for greater insight into some aspect of well-being. No one is suggesting that...
This conversation took place in August, 2020.Kim Rosen, M.F.A., has awakened listeners around the world to the power of poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities. She is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words. Her work has been...
"It is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if… anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a...
For everything that lives is holy. ––William BlakeIt was 1983. After eleven years of spiraling downward with alcoholism, I had my last drink. I was twenty-seven years old. And I can honestly say that nature saved me. Born and raised in Central London and a former...
