by Michael Lerner | Jun 2, 2015 | Healing
These grassroots efforts are like a global immune system in that they are drawn to the wounded places and they begin to work. –Michael Lerner From Awakin Call Transcript, February 2015, and published June 2 on Daily Good. Read the transcript here or listen to...
by Michael Lerner | May 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End By Atul Gawande, MD This is a book about the modern experience of mortality— about what it’s like to be creatures who age and die, how medicine has changed the experience and how it hasn’t. . . . Lacking a coherent...
by Michael Lerner | Oct 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world,” Joseph Campbell wrote. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. It is a hard saying, not an easy one. It reflects a great truth passed down for millennia. In...
by Michael Lerner | Jul 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you are in search of some summer reading (or New School podcasts for your walks and drives), here are some suggestions: Thomas Picketty, Capital in the 21st Century. Paul Krugman says “the most important economics book of the year—and maybe of the decade. ...
by Michael Lerner | May 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
On a recent trip, I visited a friend and colleague, Michael Samuels, on the island of Tinos in the Greek Mediteranean. Michael’s house is poised for flight—precipitously above a steep, terraced valley flowing down to the blue water. He built the house as a...
