Letters from
our Teachers

Today I was thinking that how we picture our mind is like a mushroom. We take it to be the white button we see pushing up through the...

Hello everyone, I'm so happy to be sitting down at last to write to you and want to begin by updating you on my new book, Becoming...

One of my favorite poems is by the late Irish poet and Noble Prize Winner, Seamus Heaney: St Kevin and the Blackbird. St Kevin was an...

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let...

In beauty I walk, With beauty before me, I walk, With beauty behind me, I walk, With beauty above me, I walk, With beauty all around me,...

This short chapter is in Edward Bastian’s book, Meditations for InterSpiritual Wisdom: Practices and Readings Drawn from the World’s...

This chapter, which I co-authored with my wife, Radhule Weininger, is published as a chapter in the book, Whole Person Care: A New...

This article was published as an editorial in the journal Palliative Medicine in December 2003.  In it, Kearney and Balfour Mount talk...

This article was published in the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA), in March 2009.  In April 2009, the article was...