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Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach.

When conception and pregnancy come with effort, or not at all, the risk is to set oneself up to feel like a failure or, alternately, to try everything in the hopes of being “good enough” to...

How extreme dieting can affect bone health. In a recent Instagram post, the actor Jameela Jamil revealed she has poor bone density, despite only being in her 30s.

What to expect from the next generation of chatbots: OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Meta’s Llama-3.

Cops on campus: Why police crackdowns on student protesters are so dangerous.

The Daily Inspiration is a short message to help set the tone for the day. It is linked to a longer article for additional insights and inspiration.

My grandfather was stern and bitter. Earlier in his life, he had owned a business with his brother, and he felt that his brother had cheated him. He often obsessed about that supposed injustice,...

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Earth Day: How To Promote Behaviour Change

Preety Sharm and Ayeshah Haque, University of Toronto
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A Part of You Knows Everything

Kim Chestney
Imagine that you are one of the many seekers and free-spirited adventurers playing your part in the greatest investigation of all time: the…

Pema Chödrön

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it. Then when we see someone in distress, we completely open our hearts and minds to whatever arises...

It takes some training to equate complete letting go with comfort. But in fact, 'nothing to hold on to' is the root of happiness. There's a sense of freedom when we accept that we're not in control. B...

It's up to us. We can spend our lives cultivating our resentments and cravings or we can explore the path of the warrior -- nurturing open-mindedness and courage. Most of us keep strengthening our neg...

Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors — people who have a certain hunger to know what is true — feelings like disappointment, em...

Suppose there were a place we could go to learn the art of peace, a sort of boot camp for spiritual warriors. Instead of spending hours and hours disciplining ourselves to defeat the enemy, we could s...

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