Wellsprings of Living and Leading - The Aspen Institute - The Aspen Institute

These short weekly pieces and companion meditations, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you. Use them as journal prompts with your morning coffee, read them aloud over dinner, or take a quiet moment with them during a break in your day. Reflections are organized by month.

May Meditations

Leadership

Brother, I’ve seen some By Kabir

Week of May 3 A short weekly reading and companion meditation from the Aspen Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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05.03.2021

April Meditations

Leadership

Forty Years By Mary Oliver

Week of April 26 A short weekly reading and companion meditation from the Aspen Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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04.27.2021
Leadership

The Emerald Mosque on the Hill By Raza Ali Hasan

Week of April 12 A short weekly reading and companion meditation from the Aspen Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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04.12.2021

Daily Meditation Week of March 29

Leadership

Nazarene By Pauli Murray

Week of April 1 A short weekly reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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04.01.2021
Leadership

The Thousand-Stringed Instrument By Hafiz

Wednesday, March 31 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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03.31.2021
Leadership

Almond Blossom By Vincent Van Gogh

Tuesday, March 30 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.30.2021
Leadership

Spring Rain in Ueno Park By Hasui Kawase

Monday, March 29 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.29.2021

Daily Meditation Week of March 22

Leadership

Forever Young By Bob Dylan

Sunday, March 28 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.28.2021
Leadership

Send Your Spirit By Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Saturday, March 27 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.27.2021
Leadership

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong

Friday, March 26 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.26.2021
Leadership

Is this it? By Kristy Blackwell

Thursday, March 25 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.25.2021
Leadership

Itinerary By Jennifer Wong

Wednesday, March 24 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.24.2021
Leadership

A Root in Each Act and Creature

Tuesday, March 23 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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03.23.2021
Leadership

Spring By Annie Dillard

Monday, March 22 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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03.22.2021

Daily Meditation Week of March 15

Leadership

Debt By Sara Teasdale

Sunday, March 21 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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03.21.2021
Leadership

The Boundary By Bei Dao

Friday, March 19 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.19.2021
Leadership

1787 Constitutional Convention Appeal By Benjamin Franklin

Thursday, March 18 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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03.18.2021
Leadership

Mother Ireland By Eavan Boland

Wednesday, March 17 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.17.2021
Leadership

Useless! Useless! By Jack Kerouac

Tuesday, March 16 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.16.2021

Daily Meditation Week of March 8

Leadership

Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman

Wednesday, March 10 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.10.2021
Leadership

How to Triumph Like a Girl By Ada Limon

Tuesday, March 9 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.09.2021
Leadership

Equality is the Sacred Law of Humanity By Egbert Jacobsen

Monday, March 8 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.08.2021

Daily Meditation Week of March 1

Leadership

starry night By Jennifer Hambrick

Friday, March 5 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.05.2021
Leadership

The Seed Cracked Open By Hafiz

Thursday, March 4 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.04.2021
Leadership

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower By Rainer Maria Rilke

Wednesday, March 3 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.03.2021
Leadership

Home Body By Rupi Kaur

Tuesday, March 2 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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03.02.2021
Leadership

Admiration By Giselle Buchanan

Monday, March 1 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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03.02.2021

Daily Meditation Week of February 22

Leadership

Spring By Mary Oliver

Friday, February 26 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.26.2021
Leadership

Houses of Parliament, Effect of Sunlight By Claude Monet

Thursday, February 25 A short daily painting and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.25.2021
Leadership

Ritual for Self Reflection By Mari Andrew

Wednesday, February 24 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.24.2021
Leadership

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be By John Keats

Tuesday, February 23 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.23.2021

Daily Meditation Week of February 16

Leadership

Dropping Keys By Hafiz

Friday, February 19 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.19.2021
Leadership

how to stay connected to your soul By Cleo Wade

Thursday, February 18 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.18.2021
Leadership

The Gods Are Here By Jean Toomer

Wednesday, February 17 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.17.2021
Leadership

Truth By Gwendolyn Brooks

Tuesday, February 16 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.16.2021

Daily Meditation Week of February 8

Leadership

Large Figure with Big Buildings By James Lesesne Wells

Friday, February 12 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.09.2021
Leadership

My Little Dreams By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Thursday, February 11 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.08.2021
Leadership

far memory By Lucille Clifton

Wednesday, February 3 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.03.2021
Leadership

Harlem by Langston Hughes

Tuesday, February 2 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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02.02.2021
Leadership

BLK History Month By Nikki Giovanni

Monday, February 1 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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02.01.2021

Daily Meditation Week of January 25

Leadership

Ah, Ah By Joy Harjo

Friday, January 29 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.29.2021
Leadership

When People Say, “We Have Made It Through Worse Before” By Clint Smith

Wednesday, January 27 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.27.2021
Leadership

The Turn: Dance in Your Blood By Rumi

Tuesday, January 26 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.26.2021
Leadership

Untamed By Glennon Doyle

Monday, January 25 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.25.2021

Daily Meditation Week of January 18

Leadership

Dove of Peace By Pablo Picasso

Friday, January 22 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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01.22.2021
Leadership

The Hill We Climb By Amanda Gorman DOWNLOAD READING Meditation Today, the United States embraces change through the inauguration of a new president. And yet, there are arduous days that lie ahead. What does unity mean to you? How does the phrase, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” resonate as you look ahead into the coming year? Brianna Curran Washington, DC Related Wellsprings of Living and Leading April 15, 2020 •

Thursday, January 21 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.21.2021
Leadership

First Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Wednesday, January 20 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.20.2021
Leadership

the sun and her flowers By Rupi Kaur

Tuesday, January 19 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.19.2021

Daily Meditation Week of January 4

Leadership

America By Claude McKay

Friday, January 8 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.08.2021
Leadership

does the sea ever say By Cleo Wade

Thursday, January 7 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.07.2021
Leadership

The Waves Book Sailboat by Salvador Dalí

Wednesday, January 6 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.06.2021
Leadership

The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Reading and Meditation

Tuesday, January 5 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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01.05.2021
Leadership

Eve’s Diary By Mark Twain

Monday, January 4 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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01.04.2021

Daily Meditation Week of December 28

Daily Meditation Week of December 21

Daily Meditation Week of December 14

Leadership

Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre

Thursday, December 17 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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12.17.2020
Leadership

The Origins of Totalitarianism By Hannah Arendt

Wednesday, December 16 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.16.2020
Leadership

Water Bearer By Sandro Chia

Tuesday, December 15 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.15.2020
Leadership

The Time Keeper By Mitch Albom

Monday, December 14 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.13.2020

Daily Meditation Week of December 7

Wellsprings of Living and Leading

These short weekly pieces and companion meditations, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you. Use them as journal prompts with your morning coffee, ...

04.15.2020
Wellsprings of Living and Leading

These short weekly pieces and companion meditations, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you. Use them as journal prompts with your morning coffee, ...

04.15.2020
Leadership

Hanukkah By Hilda Morley

Friday, December 11 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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12.11.2020
Leadership

Everything Belongs By Richard Rohr

Thursday, December 10 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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12.10.2020
Leadership

Untitled by Luchita Hurtado

Wednesday, December 9 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.09.2020
Leadership

Clair de Lune Music by Claude Debussy and Poem by Paul Verlaine

Tuesday, December 8 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.07.2020
Leadership

Let the beauty we love be what we do By Rumi

Monday, December 7 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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12.07.2020

Daily Meditation Week of November 30

Leadership

The Art of Loving By Erich Fromm

Saturday, December 5 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.07.2020
Leadership

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life By Richard Rohr

Friday, December 4 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.04.2020
Leadership

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space By Carl Sagan

Thursday, December 3 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.03.2020
Leadership

The Gardener By Mary Oliver

Wednesday, December 2 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.02.2020
Leadership

No Future Without Forgiveness By Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Tuesday, December 1 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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12.01.2020
Leadership

Walking in Beauty Closing Prayer from the Navajo Way Blessing Ceremony

Monday, November 30 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.30.2020

Daily Meditation Week of November 23

Leadership

Silence Is Meaningful By Luther Standing Bear

Sunday, November 29 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.29.2020
Leadership

Thy Continued Marvels By Abraham Joshua Heschel: Reading and Meditation

Saturday, November 28 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.28.2020
Leadership

Thanksgiving Proclamation By George Washington

Friday, November 27 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.27.2020
Leadership

Perhaps the World Ends Here By Joy Harjo

Thursday, November 26 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.26.2020
Leadership

When Giving is All We Have By Alberto Rios

Wednesday, November 25 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.25.2020
Leadership

The Flame By Rockwell Kent

Tuesday, November 24 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.24.2020
Leadership

Small Shame Blues By Dan Vera

Monday, November 23 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.23.2020

Daily Meditation Week of November 16

Leadership

Joy and Sorrow By Kahlil Gibran

Saturday , November 20 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.22.2020
Leadership

Artist in His Studio By Rembrandt van Rij

Friday, November 20 A daily painting and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.20.2020
Leadership

Sweet Baby James By James Taylor

Thursday, November 19 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.18.2020
Leadership

Consider the Hands that Write this Letter By Aracelis Girmay

Wednesday, November 18 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.18.2020
Leadership

Four Quartets By T.S. Eliot

Tuesday, November 17 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.16.2020
Leadership

Let Us Not Be Angry By Jean de La Bruyère

Monday, November 16 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.16.2020

Daily Meditation Week of November 9

Leadership

The Cave Painters By Eamon Grennan

Sunday, November 15 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.15.2020
Leadership

The Art of Travel By Alain de Botton

Saturday, November 14 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.14.2020
Leadership

Enchiridion of Epictetus By Epictetus

Friday, November 13 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.13.2020
Leadership

The Old Wisdom By Jane Goodall

Thursday, November 11 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.12.2020
Leadership

On the Shortness of Life By Seneca

Tuesday, November 10 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.10.2020
Leadership

One Tree By Philip Metres

Monday, November 9 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.09.2020

Daily Meditation Week of November 2

Leadership

going somewhere or going nowhere by cleo wade

Sunday, November 8 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.08.2020
Leadership

November By Maggie Dietz

Saturday, November 7 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.07.2020
Leadership

Of the Shining Underlife By Carl Phillips

Friday, November 6 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.05.2020
Leadership

A Center By Ha Jin

Thursday, November 5 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.05.2020
Leadership

Our Bonds of Affection By Abraham Lincoln

Wednesday, November 4 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Abraham Lincoln

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11.04.2020
Leadership

A More Perfect Union By We The People

Tuesday, November 3 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Abraham Lincoln

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11.02.2020
Leadership

The Mind’s Narrow Chamber By Walter Pater

Monday, November 2 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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11.02.2020

Daily Meditation Week of October 26

Leadership

Ante el río By Xánath Caraza

Sunday, November 1 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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11.01.2020
Leadership

Haunted Houses By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Saturday, October 31 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.31.2020
Leadership

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

Friday, October 30 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.29.2020
Leadership

The Armful By Robert Frost

Thursday, October 29 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.28.2020
Leadership

Ulysses, excerpt By Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wednesday, October 28 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.28.2020
Leadership

On Comical Moments By Vaclav Havel: Reading and Meditation

Tuesday, October 27 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.26.2020
Leadership

Courtesy in Discourse By Desiderius Erasmus

Monday, October 26 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.26.2020

Daily Meditation Week of October 19

Leadership

The Discipline of the Written Word By John Steinbeck

Susnday, October 25 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.25.2020
Leadership

Broken Promises By David Kirby

Saturday, October 24 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.25.2020
Leadership

Oh me! Oh life! by Walt Whitman

Friday, October 23 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.23.2020
Leadership

The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso

Thursday, October 22 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.22.2020
Leadership

the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur

Tuesday, October 20 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.19.2020
Leadership

Mistakes In Practice by Shunryu Suzuki

Monday, October 19 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.19.2020

Daily Meditation Week of October 12

Leadership

Footprints By Annie Dillard

Saturday, October 17 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.18.2020
Leadership

The Sun Witness By Nurunnessa Choudhury

Friday, October 16 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.15.2020
Leadership

All That You Have Given Me Africa by Anoma Kanie

Thursday, October 15 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.15.2020
Leadership

Our Notebooks Give Us Away By Joan Didion

Wednesday, October 14 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.14.2020
Leadership

An Unanswered Letter By Rainer Maria Rilke

Tuesday, October 13 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.13.2020
Leadership

The Past By Louise Gluck

Monday, October 12 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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10.12.2020

Daily Meditation Week of October 5

Leadership

Mountain By Clifton Gachagua

Sunday, October 11 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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10.11.2020
Leadership

Signs by Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Saturday, October 10 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.10.2020
Leadership

Count Down By Robin Morgan

Friday, October 9 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.09.2020
Leadership

King Henry IV by William Shakespeare

Thursday, October 8 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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10.08.2020
Leadership

Reason for Hope By Jane Goodall

Wednesday, October 7 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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10.07.2020
Leadership

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by E. E. Cummings

Tuesday, October 6 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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10.06.2020
Leadership

Continuities By Walt Whitman

Monday, October 5 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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10.04.2020

Daily Meditation Week of September 28

Daily Meditation Week of September 21

Daily Meditation Week of September 14

Leadership

The Late Year By Marge Piercy

Sunday, September 20 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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09.21.2020
Leadership

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Saturday, September 19 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.18.2020
Leadership

Asking the Way by Ko Un

Friday, September 18 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.18.2020
Leadership

I Look for You by Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Thursday, September 17 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.16.2020
Leadership

Dance of the Cranes by Haruyo Morita

Wednesday, September 16 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.16.2020
Leadership

Finale by Pablo Neruda

Tuesday, September 15 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.14.2020
Leadership

Aphasia by Chris Abani

Monday, September 14 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.14.2020

Daily Meditation Week of September 8

Leadership

Sonata No. 14 “Moonlight in C-Sharp Minor” by Ludwig van Beethoven

Sunday, September 13 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.13.2020
Leadership

Among the Sierra Nevadas by Albert Bierstadt

Saturday, September 12 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.13.2020
Leadership

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Friday, September 11 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.11.2020
Leadership

To Manage By Naomi Shihab Nye

Thursday, September 10 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.10.2020
Leadership

Ute Prayer From the Uncompahgre Ute Tribe

Wednesday, September 9 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.09.2020
Leadership

Come, Come Whoever You Are by Rumi

Tuesday, September 8 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.08.2020

Daily Meditation Week of August 31

Leadership

Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte

Saturday, September 5 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.05.2020
Leadership

bravery by Alison Malee

Friday, September 4 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.04.2020
Leadership

Flying Inside Your Own Body by Margaret Atwood

Thursday, September 3 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Brianna Curran

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09.03.2020
Leadership

Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Wednesday, September 2 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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09.02.2020
Leadership

Untitled by Morgan Harper Nichols

Tuesday, September 1 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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09.01.2020
Leadership

August by Mary Oliver

Monday, August 31 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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08.31.2020

Daily Meditation Week of August 24

Leadership

Sacred Exhaustion by Jeff Foster

Sunday, August 30 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

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08.30.2020
Leadership

From Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Saturday, August 29 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Hannah Wardell-Metcalf

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08.29.2020
Leadership

Signals By Luci Shaw

Friday, August 28 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Hannah Wardell-Metcalf

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08.28.2020
Leadership

The Mountain is Stripped By David Ignatow

Thursday, August 27 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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08.27.2020
Leadership

The Human Seasons by John Keats

Wednesday, August 26 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Hannah Wardell-Metcalf

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08.26.2020
Leadership

Lineage By Margaret Walker

Tuesday, August 25 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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08.24.2020
Leadership

Che Fece ... Il Gran Rifiuto By CP Cavafy

Monday, August 24 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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08.24.2020

Daily Meditation Week of August 17

Daily Meditation Week of August 10

Daily Mediation Week of August 3

Daily Meditation Week of July 27

Daily Meditation Week of July 20

Leadership

Now and Forever by Allen Ginsberg

Sunday, July 25 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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07.25.2020
Leadership

What Gets Away by William Stafford

Saturday, July 24 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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07.26.2020
Leadership

This Great Revolution by John Lewis

Friday, July 24 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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07.23.2020
Leadership

Testimonial By Rita Dove

Thursday, July 23 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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07.22.2020
Leadership

Oceans By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Monday, July 20 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.20.2020
Leadership

On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou

Wednesday, July 22 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.21.2020
Leadership

Starry Night Over the Rhône by Vincent van Gogh

Tuesday, July 21 A short daily painting and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.20.2020

Daily Meditation Week of July 13

Leadership

The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First by Mary Oliver

Sunday, July 19 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.19.2020
Leadership

In the Same Space by C.P. Cavafy

Saturday, July 18 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.18.2020
Leadership

The Pomegranate by Kahlil Gibran

Friday, July 17 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.17.2020
Leadership

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

Thursday, July 16 A short daily painting and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.16.2020
Leadership

Don’t Go Back to Sleep by Rumi

Wednesday, July 15 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.14.2020
Leadership

All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols

Tuesday, July 14 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Executive Leadership Seminars Department

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07.13.2020
Leadership

Come To The Woods by John Muir

Monday, July 13 A short daily reading and companion meditation from the Institute Executive Leadership Seminars Department, designed to nourish, inspire, and challenge you.

BY Todd Breyfogle

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07.13.2020

Daily Meditation Week of July 6

Daily Meditation Week of June 29

Daily Meditation Week of June 22