
Explore the best of the world’s wisdom traditions over the course of a year. Readings each week day.
New content released each week in 2023
Why This Collection Matters and How to Use It
- Wisdom Before Writing
- Sumeria (Gilgamesh, Inanna, Nanshe)
- Egypt (Isis, Osiris, Horus)
- India (Vedas, Upanishads)
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Ur/Canaan (Eve, Abraham, Jacob)
- Egypt (Joseph, Moses)
- Greece (Prometheus, Athena, Aesop)
- Greece (Iliad, Ulysses)
- India (Ramayana)
- India (Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita)
- Nepal (Buddha, Buddhist nuns)
- China (Lao Tzu, Zhuangzi)
- China (Confucius, Mencius)
- Greece (Socrates, Plato)
- Greece (Aristotle, Epicurus)
- Israel (David, Job, Ecclesiastes, Esther)
- Rome (Aeneas, Cicero, Plotinus)
- Rome (Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)
- Jerusalem (Jesus)
- Jerusalem (Jesus, Paul, Thecla)
- Jerusalem (Early Christians)
- West Asia (Muhammad, Hadith)
- West Asia (Rumi, Hafiz, Omar Khayyam)
- China (Chinese Buddhism, Tales)
- Japan (Shinto, Zen)
- Japan (Zen tales)
- Europe (Boethius, Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart)
- Europe (Teresa of Avila, Christine de Pizan, Marie de France)
- Europe (Fairy Tales)
- Scandinavia (Odin, Thor, Freyja)
- India (Sikhism, Jainism)
- Britain (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton)
- Britain (William Blake, Mary Shelley, Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf)
- Britain (Darwin, Huxley)
- Thailand (Theravada Buddhism)
- Tibet (Mahayana Buddhism)
- Africa (Folk stories)
- Russia / Slav (Baba Yaga, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky)
- Oceania / Polynesia (Folk stories)
- America (Native American, Inuit)
- America (Meso-America, Latin America)
- America (Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs)
- New England (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman)
- America (T.S. Eliot, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver, Alan Watts, Fred Rogers, bell hooks, MLK)
- England (Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan)
- France (Montague, Proust)
- German (Kant, Hegel, Nietzche)
- German (Freud, Jung)
- World Wisdom (Baháʼu’lláh, Kahlil Gibran, Krishnamurti, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi)
- World Wisdom (Jack Kornfield, Eckhart Tolle, Mirabai Starr, Dalai Lama, Pema Chodron)
- World Wisdom (Thomas Keating, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Audre Lorde)
