Posts by John

Nature and Art

In our discussion on week 6 of our introduction to meditation where we considered nature and art, some of us came over all poetic. We even discussed…

Maria and Maira

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Maria Popova and Maira Kalman in a delightful email conversation, inadvertently revealing two live’s being well lived. Books discussed: [amazon template=iframe image&asin=159017321X] [amazon template=iframe image&asin=0140053972] [amazon template=iframe image&asin=1463701438]…

Schooling for Wisdom

Ricardo Semler is known as The Maverick in Brazilian business circles. Here he gives an inspiring TED talk where he shares his thinking about business, education,…

Become what you are

In her introduction to her review of Alan Watts’ book Become What Your Are, Maria Popova shares an observation on a mid winter meditation retreat she attended…

Who am I?

From Leo’s site this week an interesting video of Henri Nouwen where he discusses 3 commonly visited, but unreliable sources of happiness, namely: What I do What…