Extraordinary organizations have extraordinary cultures. Fully engaged team members find personal meaning in their jobs-and in the company. Driven by a sense of purpose, they feel responsible, and accountable, for results. Personal development becomes the primary driver of organizational growth, leading to significant improvements in retention, quality, and profitability.In the wake of the Great Resignation, it's more apparent than ever that an engaging culture is the ultimate comp...

Ignorense is Blis is a collection of humorous short quotes, stories, jokes, and situations from the white board of Tom Willis, a high school science teacher in his 20th year. Tom has been using these jokes for years to greet students as they enter his classroom and get them into a better mood for learning. The humor spans from simple puns to complex science related wit meant to inspire and entertain the academically inclined through the daily drudgery of everyday school (or work) ...

★ **Share the stories about Christmas with your little one.**★A wonderful book of stories, with Santa Claus, Reindeer, Ice Fairy, Snowman and much more! This book can be read by parents with their children before bedtime, or cand be read by themselves at any time of the day. Each story has a text, accompanied by wonderful illustrations that are sure to delight children.Here are the stories you'll be able to read in the pages of this book:

Extraordinary organizations have extraordinary cultures. Fully engaged team members find personal meaning in their jobs-and in the company. Driven by a sense of purpose, they feel responsible, and accountable, for results. Personal development becomes the primary driver of organizational growth, leading to significant improvements in retention, quality, and profitability.In the wake of the Great Resignation, it's more apparent than ever that an engaging culture is the ultimate comp...

Welcome to the book of Lover Birds and their corresponding love song lyrics made famous by the legendary singer, songwriter, recording executive Smokey Robinson, whom many call the poet laureate of Motown.

In this highly personal account of an ex-nun’s transition from a cloistered, disciplined life, to a life in the world, confronting her human feelings and making her own decisions, Karen Armstrong discusses frankly and with humor her process of coping with the shifting values and lifestyles of the secular world. It is a revealing account of her discovery that the spiritual vocation can be an ever-changing journey into life. She is author of Beginning the World (St. Martin’s Press 1983) and ...

Byron Katie has discovered that each of us maintains a web of beliefs - about our parents, our partners, our neighbors, our government - that are entirely untrue, and yet they're the foundation for much of our unhappiness.

This teacher of non-dualism sheds light on the essential teachings of what is known as “the direct path.” Almost everybody believes that whatever it is we are seeing is something that is outside ourselves. This leads to a most vexing question for science: How is consciousness derived from the brain? No neurologist or brain surgeon has ever found consciousness in the brain. Spira tells us, “The non-dual traditions, in general, suggest that consciousness is not derived from the brain. It’s n...

Macy inspires us to strengthen our capacity to face the planetary crisis with hope for the future. She’s co-author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy.

Jane Hirshfield points out that many people turn to poetry in times of great life transitions. She says, “You know when people fall in love, or when they lose love, or lose someone they loved, that is when they want a poem. When they get married, they want a poem. These great transitions are larger than the normal, ordinary consciousness. And what poems do is give us a vocabulary for understanding things, which isn’t available through any other use of language.” Her poetry alludes...

This is an edited talk that Justine Willis Toms gave in the summer of 2014. She includes the four keys to thriving in chaotic times and compares this time to that of a caterpillar inside the cocoon where it liquefies and the imaginal cells begin to coalesce, soon to emerge as a butterfly. She suggests that we are the imaginal cells of the changing of an age.

This dialogue with the daughters of Alan Watts takes a deep dive into the colorful and controversial life of this late philosopher and popularizer of Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. Through his collected letters they show how he was always learning something new, how he was clear that wisdom is not a static thing and his views were always under revision.