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  • A Glimpse of Infinity

    A Glimpse of Infinity

    After graduating from the University of California Berkeley in 1987, I moved to Fukuyama, Japan—about 400 miles south of Tokyo—to teach English. People often ask why I decided to go to Japan, but the reality is that Japan chose me. At that time, I longed to take a year off and travel abroad. Having applied…

  • Assagioli’s New Year Message

    Assagioli’s New Year Message

    While poking around Assagioli’s online archives, searching for the words “peace” and “pace”, I came across an Italian newspaper clipping published precisely fifty years ago on New Years Day. The year was 1974, and this would be the last New Years Day Assagioli would experience as he would die on 23 August that same year…

  • Christmas Letter from Tagore

    Christmas Letter from Tagore

    More than 100 years ago, Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, spent five months in the United States trying to raise money for his newly founded Visva-Bharati University. He was mostly unsuccessful, in part, because British officials in the USA were discreetly working against him, dissuading rich benefactors from donating. This…

  • Writing a Spiritual Christmas List

    Writing a Spiritual Christmas List

    Most of us are familiar with writing Christmas Lists. As children we might have been encouraged by our parents to write to Santa Claus, sending him our list of desired gifts. We might have also been told that Santa Claus kept his own “list of who’s naughty and nice.” As we became adults enmeshed in…

  • Where is the Peace?

    Where is the Peace?

    It seems as if ‘Peace’ has become a dirty word. There is talk of a ceasefire, humanitarian pause, resolutions, and emergency joint summits. But Peace? Where is the Peace? I have been searching for peace for a long time. Both inside and out. Longing for peace, I sometimes to go to Assisi, also known as…