“Listen. I can’t tell you the storm’s not coming,” he said. “But I can tell you how to weather the storm. What you must do is form an extended family of your own. You will be discontented, you will be deeply unhappy if you try to go through life with too few people around you. If you have fifteen or twenty people, you will survive whatever crisis

Author, screenwriter, and BBC producer John Yorke says that all great stories ask the protagonist one simple question, “Will you revert to your old self and die, or change and live?”

In many faith traditions, there is no individual salvation. We either all get there or none of us do. There is no individual enlightenment—only enlightenment on behalf of the whole. This is not an American way of thinking. But I believe it is how we actually find our way home—by journeying together.

At this moment in history, it is possible to feed

There are certain “pure medicines” that every wisdom tradition makes available to the lost and disheartened. Silence. Song. Story. These are the ancient remedies to nourish the withered soul. These are the practices that cause the sap to rise. ... There has never been a time in history when humans consumed as many stories as we do today. If stories