How do we balance our individual—selfish, dare I say—needs with the collective? A simple equation offers clarity for one of ...

Stephen Batchelor is one of my all time favorite writers and teachers. A contemporary Buddhist master best known for his secular, agnostic approach to spiritual life, he was born in Scotland and ...

Bill Gates is known for his solitary “think weeks.” The painter Georgia O’Keeffe often spent days alone walking and working at her ranch in New Mexico. And the poet Emily Dickinson wrote often about ...

A candle flickers on the coffee table, sending a wisp of smoke into an empty, white-washed room. Foreign noises creak outside. I stare at the blank walls and the pictures scattered on the floor that ...