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Play: The Movement of Love |
| "Not long ago, I lived in an apartment that
over-looked a preschool playground. At 8:00 a.m., as I ate my granola
every morning, the doors to the school yard burst open and preschoolers
spilled onto the yard. I sat staring out the second floor window,
happily buffered from the full volume of their blood curdling screeches,
and watched, mesmerized. Children hurled themselves into the day,
bumping, tripping, bouncing, building things, smashing them down,
hitting, kicking, laughing, hugging. Everything was there-trial,
disappointment, grief, success, connection, creativity, celebration,
belonging, not belonging-all in one little playground. I had the
distinct feeling I was watching the raw business of the universe,
the workings of evolution itself. " Read more on EarthLight.org |
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Peace Culture: The Problem of Managing Human Difference by Elise Boulding |
| "The creative management of differences is at the core of peace
culture; in other words, it is not a culture without conflict. Since
every human individual is different from every other, conflict is
a basic part of any social order. Each of us sees, hears, and experiences
the world uniquely, and we spend our lives bridging the differences
between our perceptions (and the needs and wishes they generate)
and the perceptions of others. Even though it is reasonable to ask
why we do not fight constantly, given our differences, much of the
time we do this work peacefully. The explanation lies in the two
opposing needs for bonding and autonomy. Every human being needs
to bond with others. We need to be part of a community; we need
others to care for us; we need to care for others. Children who
do not experience this caring have trouble dealing with others throughout
their lives. At the same time, we need autonomy, our own space --
room enough to express our individuality." Read more on CrossCurrents.org |
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The Search for Happiness Through Buddhism & Psychotherapy by Ron Leifer, M.D. |
| "There is an intriguing symmetry (not an identity) between the twenty-five
hundred year old search for happiness through Buddhism and the hundred
year old search for happiness through psychotherapy. Having practiced
psychotherapy for thirty-five years and Buddhism for fifteen years,
I have noticed striking similarities as well as differences between
the two. Others have also noticed the resemblance. Alan Watts observed
that Oriental religions, particularly Buddhism, are more similar
to psychotherapy than to Western religions. At the same time, he
noted, Western psychotherapy resembles religion with its own charismatic
leaders, dogma, and rituals." Read more on InnerSelf.com |
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This far by faith: An interview with Juan Williams |
| "There is a direction connection between faith and the struggle
for civil rights. This is true not only in the period of the civil
rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, but in every historical period,
beginning with the colonial era."…" There's no question, of course,
about where the leadership of the civil rights movement was nurtured
in the church. Civil rights leaders were church leaders, and the
movement grew out of the church. Without the church that movement
would have been absent leadership and, maybe even more critically,
absent the notion of Christian conscience that blacks could appeal
to: If we are both Christians, how can you not view me also as a
child of God? That's the power of Martin Luther King's message."
Read more on ChristianCentury.org |
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Movie Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat: |
| "This 106-minute documentary by David Cherniack is
set at the Karma Ling Institute, a Buddhist center in the French
Alps that at one time was a monastery and before that a Celtic ritual
site. In 1997, shamans, medicine people, and tribal elders representing
indigenous cultures from five continents gathered to share their
rituals and concerns. The meeting culminates with an interfaith
ceremony with the Dalai Lama." Read more on Spirituality & Health |
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Book Review |
| "According to Kirk Byron Jones, who teaches social ethics and
pastoral ministry at Andover Newton Theological Seminary, speed
is not only accepted in American culture, it is saluted as the regulating
ideal of life."…" Jones is convinced that this need for speed can
diminish the quality of our lives and put a desultory spin on patience,
judgment, depth, joy, dialogue, personhood, and spirituality. What
lies behind this idolatry of acceleration? Jones suggests we are
running away from aches and fears, from ourselves, and from God.
He then presents some spiritual strategies for slowing down." Read more on Spirituality & Health |
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Quote: Jack Kornfield in the Buddha's Little Instruction Book |
| "Whatever path of action you find that brings good and happiness
to all, follow this way like the moon in the path of the stars."
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 Play:
The Movement of Love |
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Search for Happines |
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Far By Faith |
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| Fire
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Book Review |
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Quote of the Month |
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Get Published |
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| Personal Retreats Magic Sunrise; Kapaa, HI |
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| Retreat Event Singles Retreat Sept 19-21 Key West, FL |
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| The Trust Factor: Creating Win/Win Relationships. During this
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| Retreat Event Yoga Retreat in New Mexico with Gay White Sept 10-14 |
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| This long weekend retreat in Taos is for yoga practitioners with
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