All plants are solar energy systems, storing the sun’s energy to power themselves—and the beings who eat them. It’s just that some plants taste more like sunlight than others.
What helps you to feel like you are storing energy? How do you pass that energy along?
The Dalai Lama is revered around the world as a great spiritual teacher. But sometimes spiritual insights come from surprising places, like the look in the great, round eyes of a llama.
Who or what has been a surprising spiritual teacher for you?
Yom HaShoah is a solemn remembrance of the millions of lives lost in the Holocaust—entire communities and a whole way of life stolen forever. It hurts to remember such devastation, whether your family was associated with the oppressors or the oppressed. But building a new way demands rigorous attention to how we got where we are.
What from your personal or family history warrants your rigorous attention?
It often seems like the grass is greener, the people cooler, on the other side of the fence. But if we are lucky, someone or something grounds us right where we are.
Who or what helps you to feel at home?
“There’s a crack, a crack in everything…that’s where the light gets in.”
–Leonard Cohen
What cracks in your life have let the light in?
