Patients often complain about rushed doctor visits and, of course, the cost of medical services. But a number of studies in recent years highlight a different concern: whether as a patient you actually experience kindness when receiving health care.

And being treated with basic courtesy and compassion – especially while undergoing medical distress – was rated in one […]

A veteran negotiator in world hot-spots including the Middle East, Louise Diamond practices a citizens-based diplomacy that sometimes finds cooperation at the grass roots level, even when governments are hostile.

Austrian-born author and Benedictine Brother David Steindl-Rast, recorded at his monastery near Corning, NY, believes that acquiring an attitude of “gratefulness” can calm the mind and give life a simple joy.

Americans visit the library more often than they go to a movie theater or attend a sporting event. But far from stagnant institutions of the past, libraries today are rapidly evolving.

Americans visit the library more often than they go to a movie theater or attend a sporting event. But far from stagnant institutions of the past, libraries today are rapidly evolving.

Americans visit the library more often than they go to a movie theater or attend a sporting event. But far from stagnant institutions of the past, libraries today are rapidly evolving.

Americans visit the library more often than they go to a movie theater or attend a sporting event. But far from stagnant institutions of the past, libraries today are rapidly evolving.

A Kansas therapist and author, John Heider, describes how his life has been profoundly affected by studying a renowned 2,500 year old wisdom text from China that teaches the art of inner balance.

How the daughter of two holocaust survivors ventured into formal dialogues with children of Nazi-era Germans and what they learned from each other in a new era.

Bay Area physician and Univ. of California medical professor Martin Rossman, author of “The Worry Solution”, describes ways to distinguish between what we can change and what we must learn to accept.