Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Ahad Cobb
The Dances of Universal Peace are participatory body prayer, not performance art.
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
People have over the years urged us to remove this tree, fearing the possibility that it might fall on our house. This particular giant was clearly leaning away from our buildings.
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- Written by: Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis
Metaphysics teaches that you don't go to Heaven just because you have been a good person; you grow to Heaven through the gradual, majestic process of spiritual evolution.
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- Written by: Hugh McLeod
“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the first half of the 20th century in Protestant churches all over Britain.
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- Written by: Andrea Alexander
At a certain point, "readers of the Old French version of Genesis understood the statement 'Adam and Eve ate a pom' to mean 'Adam and Eve ate an apple,'" explains Azzan Yadin-Israel.
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- Written by: Hugh and Gayle Prather
To make our state of mind more important than what we are doing is to walk a spiritual path. That’s pretty basic. But it all becomes a little more complicated...
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- Written by: Matthew Ponak
I am inspired to share helpful techniques from my own tradition to add to this emerging global mindfulness conversation.
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- Written by: Will T. Wilkinson
I have three discoveries to share with you that may support your own unique emergence into increasing fulfillment.
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- Written by: Mara Branscombe
When we begin to investigate our life experiences as “material” to reflect back to us the ways in which we can self-direct our healing process, we begin the journey...
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- Written by: don Alberto Taxo
It is easy to love people who love us, but it is possible and necessary to give love to people who have wounded us because this is where the spiritual opportunity lies.
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- Written by: Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.,
Nothing is more important for the future of humanity than a global return to joy. At a moment of profound sadness regarding the state of the world...
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- Written by: Julia Paulette Hollenbery
In an attempt to keep up in an increasingly fast world, we are always on the go, non-stop doing, grabbing coffees and rushing lunches . . . We are in constant motion, fingers active if not our whole body...
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
In this age of too much political negativity and price gouging it is sometimes difficult to find and see the positive. But here it is staring out at me from my kitchen window.
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- Written by: Lynne Renoir
I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home. My father was a preacher who was particularly attracted to the words of Solomon that he must not "spare the rod" in disciplining his child.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
Recently I was invited to participate in an online event on compassion. One of the participants shared possibly the most moving story on compassion I have ever heard in my existence.
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- Written by: Joseph Selbie
Meditation gives us greater access to nonlocal realities: uplifting and harmonizing emotions, intuition and creativity, and an abundance of health-giving life force.
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- Written by: Phyllida Anam-Áire
Walking in nature, eating delicious food, poetry, playing with our children, dancing and singing, making love, are all graces we can name as sacred encounters with life itself. These experiences open us up to different states of being and have a positive effect on our psyches.
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- Written by: Ora Nadrich
As mysterious as the brain is, mindfulness, I believe, can help us know more about it and the brilliance of which it is capable.
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- Written by: Joseph Selbie
We are so much more than we know. We have access to a rich source of vitality, creativity, fulfillment, and wellbeing right within ourselves.
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- Written by: Will T. Wilkinson
Lovecasting.is my name for what I believe is the most potent and effective act of rebellion. The instructions are simple: express love no matter what.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
It is a great platitude to say that the world is getting more and more complicated and complex. Many of our seniors are hopelessly lost with a system that is changing and evolving almost daily.
