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23 Inner Development Goals for Environmental Sustainability

There's a new international initiative to help organizations and individuals refocus on sustainability-aligned values. These are its strengths and challenges.

There's a new international initiative to help organizations and individuals refocus on sustainability-aligned values. These are its strengths and challenges.

Love to Overcome Hate

Measuring the unmeasurable: The need to empower the study of love.

Measuring the unmeasurable: The need to empower the study of love.

The Value of Looking at Long-Distance Views

Personal Perspective: Here are the health-giving benefits of taking in long views, panoramic vistas, and wide open spaces.

Personal Perspective: Here are the health-giving benefits of taking in long views, panoramic vistas, and wide open spaces.

Reflections on Online Psychic Services

Online psychic services raise important questions. What psychological needs drive people to the occult? Alan Watts and Carl Jung provide some answers.

Online psychic services raise important questions. What psychological needs drive people to the occult? Alan Watts and Carl Jung provide some answers.

Radically Restructuring Our Understanding of Life

The awe and wonder astronauts feel can be applied to our own earthly lives, encouraging new insights about our relationships with other people and our place in the natural world.

The awe and wonder astronauts feel can be applied to our own earthly lives, encouraging new insights about our relationships with other people and our place in the natural world.

After-Death Communication Experiences May Promote Healing

After-death communication experiences often provide great comfort to the bereaved. About half of all Americans have experienced ADCs, including atheists and agnostics.

After-death communication experiences often provide great comfort to the bereaved. About half of all Americans have experienced ADCs, including atheists and agnostics.

5 Ways to Make Your Workspace Your Sanctuary

Learn how to create workspaces that foster 5 elements of spirituality to get you in the zone and move you from anxiety and overload to peace, calm, and fulfillment.

Learn how to create workspaces that foster 5 elements of spirituality to get you in the zone and move you from anxiety and overload to peace, calm, and fulfillment.

10 Tips for Greater Happiness

The thoughts and actions we choose to undertake dictate how we feel. Thus, as long as we reach for it, increased happiness can be within our grasp.

The thoughts and actions we choose to undertake dictate how we feel. Thus, as long as we reach for it, increased happiness can be within our grasp.

Why You've Got to Have Faith

Believing in something bigger than yourself can be good for your mental health.

Believing in something bigger than yourself can be good for your mental health.

Re-Imagining Interdependence

Don't ever be content with a system that restricts who wins.

Don't ever be content with a system that restricts who wins.

How Awe Helps Us During Difficult Times

Awe-inspiring experiences can increase our well-being and satisfaction with life. We can experience this in simple moments of everyday life.

Awe-inspiring experiences can increase our well-being and satisfaction with life. We can experience this in simple moments of everyday life.

Chaplaincy and Mental Health

How do you care for your spirit? A hospital chaplain shares about Spiritual Care Week and whole-person care.

How do you care for your spirit? A hospital chaplain shares about Spiritual Care Week and whole-person care.

A Safe and Effective Church-Based Lay Counseling Ministry

Many people of faith turn to the church in a time of crisis. A psychiatrist in Texas demonstrates that well-trained lay counselors can help meet the need for safe, affordable care.

Many people of faith turn to the church in a time of crisis. A psychiatrist in Texas demonstrates that well-trained lay counselors can help meet the need for safe, affordable care.

The Spirituality of Parenting

It’s hard to watch kids grow up because they once connected us with something more. Here's how to reconnect with that even when kids are fully grown.

It’s hard to watch kids grow up because they once connected us with something more. Here's how to reconnect with that even when kids are fully grown.

Lessons on Facing Loneliness From Philosophy

Together, science and philosophy offer robust guidance for building more meaningful social lives and living well.

Together, science and philosophy offer robust guidance for building more meaningful social lives and living well.

Mother and daughter sit on a tree at the beach
Taking Another Look at Prayer

Personal Perspective: Sometimes, it takes life’s disruptions to experience a spiritual awakening.

Personal Perspective: Sometimes, it takes life’s disruptions to experience a spiritual awakening.

My Life as a Hope Junkie

A Personal Perspective: I'm addicted to hope and am ready to get help. Maybe you are too.

A Personal Perspective: I'm addicted to hope and am ready to get help. Maybe you are too.

Why Your Pastor Can't Be Your Therapist

African Americans see our pastors as family members, but sometimes we ask them to support us in ways beyond their scope of training.

African Americans see our pastors as family members, but sometimes we ask them to support us in ways beyond their scope of training.

Who Is Most Likely to Dream of the Dead?

Through visitation dreams people may renew their sense of living a psychologically coherent life in which the dead person is both gone forever and yet always present.

Through visitation dreams people may renew their sense of living a psychologically coherent life in which the dead person is both gone forever and yet always present.