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The Inner Compass of Being

William Horden | Posted 05.03.2012

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Is there an inner compass we can trust to guide our steps to an enduring sense of well-being in these turbulent times?

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A Meditation On The Indefinable Nature Of The Divine

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.16.2012

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God is love. The reason the love that is God can set us free is because that unquatifiable peace was the very nature of existence before the universe was born.

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Embodying With Awareness

Willow Dea | Posted 04.17.2012

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Ultimately, if we "are what we teach," as Parker Palmer once famously offered, we are called to enact our deepest wisdom while we teach, parent, work, and walk through life.

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The Internet boom is creating a technological language around what used to just be part of basic human interaction and relatedness. Will we soon need to be advised to say hello when greeting another person, to hug our child when she cries?

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Krista Tippett's OnBeing Features HuffPost Religion Editor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

being.publicradio.org | Posted 11.20.2011

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HuffPost Religion's Senior Editor is interviewed by NPR Host Krista Tippett on the continuing influence of the social gospel movement of his great-gra...

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Born This Way? Being, Becoming, Lady Gaga and the Divine

John Backman | Posted 07.25.2011

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Every major faith tradition calls its followers to more: to become better, more compassionate, closer to the Divine. The natural arc of life issues the same call.

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When Cats Pray: How Our Feline Friends Uplift The World

Pamela Gerloff | Posted 07.23.2011

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As I paused to experience the stillness in which Miss Kitty was immersed, an image entered my mind -- an image of a global feline force that daily nourishes and sustains us all.

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American Am-ness

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Some thoughts prompted by the divisive (i.e. dualistic, dichotomous, all-or-nothing) rhetoric and the Chinese visit... The real threat to America (as...

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"Do You Really Like Living Here?" A Foreigner's Perspective on Tokyo

Jared Braiterman | Posted 05.25.2011

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(This article originally appeared in Newsweek Japan on October 28, 2010 in Japanese) "Do you really like living in Tokyo?" is a question I am often a...

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The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

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I like to think of Andrew Harvey as one of the intellectual bad boys of the modern spiritual path. Bless the man, he's almost always a curve or two ahead of the pack.

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Experience It First, and Only Then Describe It

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Experience is beyond description, whatever you are doing (eating, playing, working), whatever is the experience -- experience it first, and only then (try to) describe it.

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