If you are struggling to find a direction in life right now, try giving! If you want something to do, give of yourself in some way in the service of others. You might jus...read full story
I had dubbed the event “24 Hours of Kindness.” The goal was simple: to perform as many acts of kindness as possible in the community for a full 24 hours witho...read full story
A caller to my radio show told me the following story: she had survived a terrible earthquake in her native country, lost her husband in that quake, emigrated to the U.S....read full story
One of my personal heroes is Mother Teresa, who spent her later years teaching and serving others. She once remarked, “Love cannot remain by itself—it has no ...read full story
The 77th verse of the Tao Te Ching suggests thinking about the surpluses we can put back into circulation to decrease deficiencies that exist elsewhere in our world. Lao-...read full story
The idea to create Good Deeds Day came to me one morning when I was walking on the sand dunes in Israel, on one of my usual early-morning walks. I thought, Why not set as...read full story
Founder of Communities in Schools, Bill Milliken talks about his early years as a youth outreach worker in the streets of New York City in the 1960s. Trying to establish ...read full story
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I c...read full story
I was beginning to think that Chef Roger Dufau was a rare spiritual teacher who used food as inspiration for his lessons. There seemed to be something behind everything h...read full story
