dharma house: from monastery to co-housing
You feel truly connected to the world and to a sense of home. New ideas come from being in this place. On the deepest level, this zone is a spiritual place. We meet the spiritual world most immediately through our relationships to others.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
Following are ten foolproof ways to nurture your community that have served me.
- be present and listen
- take initiative and be accountable
- eat together: communal dinner with questions prepped ahead of time
- give gifts
- inspire fun, play, and adventure
- design spaces for belonging: “Designing intentional spaces is at the root of belonging. It’s the physical
Radha Agrawal • Home - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
All of us have ancestral memory of what it’s like to live connected, interdependent lives. We may be cut off or too far away from those traditions to claim them, but we can listen to our needs, our longings, and through ritual, rite, and practice build a way of being in the world that honors and makes tangible our connections to one another, to
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