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Recently, I introduced a scientific study on how unhappy young adults are around the world, in both wealthy and poor countries. In offering some medicine for
In honor of the liberation from slavery and the “angel of death” in this Passover season, and in honor of Earth Day this week, yesterday’s
We are meditating on touching our Joy in spite of darkness and times of acedia. I offer a second concrete story here. One Fall semester I
Yesterday I responded to a letter from a psychologist who did not like my naming acedia and depression as a spiritual issue. The suggestion was that
One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
Rumi tells us that “the spark of the soul is not easily lit.” When one hears scientists express ecstasy and cry tears of joy and wonder,
The first chakra is the beginning of all the chakras – it is where the fire, the seed, the snake lie coiled up and ready
The “desert fathers” first developed the idea of the seven capital sins. An ancient text from the monk Evagrius calls acedia “the noonday demon” that
If acedia or apathy lies at the heart of climate denial in our culture today, as some keen observers like Lester Brown and environmental lawyers
In a previous DM, I cited Gus Speth, the environmental lawyer who came to realize that the crisis of climate change is not so much
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