When religious scholar and author Karen Armstrong accepted the TED prize in February, 2008, she, like other recipients of the prize, shared a wish for the betterment of society. The former Roman Catholic nun who refers to herself as a “freelance monotheist” made the following request to the TED community: “I wish that you would…

I am writing from a crowded Terminal A at Washington/Dulles Airport. The fact that I am here at all is a mini-miracle since my 9:25 a.m. flight out of Newark, N.J. was actually a 9:25 a.m. flight out of LaGuardia – a bit of information that would have been nice to know as Martin and…

I love this idea. A visual mediation with a single associated word meant to create space for personal reflection. The Polaroid Camera frame adds to the charm of what creator Spencer Burke, founder of the Ooze.com, calls a Monotation. He posts them daily at his website and makes some of the images available here for journals, notecards…

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist and a magician with the…

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