Interconnectedness

What The Buddha Might Say To President Obama

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Interconnectedness, Politics, Kindness, Patience, Gay Marriage, Buddha, Compassion, Media, Buddha Obama, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

To find unity, we have to go beyond those differences; we have to surrender our own needs for the benefit of all. In the process, our enemies can teach us great patience and even compassion!

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Buddha Doodle -- Interconnected

Molly Hahn | Posted 04.24.2012

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Arising To The Interconnectedness Of Life

Bernie Glassman | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Occupy Faith, Buddhism, Religious Tolerance, Indra's Net, Global Unity, Buddhist Activism, Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat, Occupy Wall Street, Interconnectedness, Oneness, Slidepollajax, Religion News

When I see everything, including the social system, as myself, I take actions to reduce suffering. I heal the system as healing myself, not fixing someone else who is to blame for all the problems.

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Are Your Friends' Habits Rubbing Off On You? The 'Social Contagion' Phenomenon

Aditi Nerurkar, M.D., M.P.H. | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Human Interconnectedness, Healthy Living Body, Love and Relationships, Interconnectedness, Peer Influence, Social Contagion, Healthy Living Spirit, Social Influence, Healthy Living News

As children, we were given many examples of how the company we keep might influence us. Emerging research has found that these childhood lessons weren't mere scare tactics employed by our well-intentioned parents. They were onto something.

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Egocentric or Allocentric connectedness?

John Bergquist | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Narcissism, Interconnectedness, Egocentric, Tiffany Shlain, Allocentric, Brian Solis, Ego, Healthy Living News

We don't need to exclude ourselves from the tribes and interest groups that feed us, but we should continue to expand our understanding and and be more allocentric in our connectedness.

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Global Competency Through International Interaction and Education

Ed Gragert | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Globalization, International Education, Interconnectedness, Education, Cultural Exchange, Schools, Education News

Very few of today's American youth are prepared to be tomorrow's global leaders. This potential crisis in U.S. global leadership capacity demands a dramatic, yet achievable goal.

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Anything Can Happen At Any Time: Zen Lessons From Japan

James Baraz | Posted 06.01.2011

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A central tenet of existence is the truth of impermanence. Ultimately there is no stability in a constantly changing world. As one of my teachers puts it: "Anything can happen at any time."

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The Importance of Care in Business

Birute Regine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interconnectedness, Hunterdon Medical Center, Complex Systems, Care, Global Financial Crisis, Bermuda, Cio, Dot Com Bubble, Carenect, Business News

I once gave a talk about the important role care plays in the workplace. Once I used that word, "care," I had lost my audience. Who needs to care when you are king of the mountain?

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Fueling Positive Emotions in a World Gone Mad

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Interconnectedness, Stress Relief, Politics, Unplug and Recharge, Positive Thinking, Values, Positive Attitude, Hopefulness, Healthy Living News

If there is anything this nasty, fear-driven, political season has demonstrated, it's that no politician -- Democrat, Republican, or otherwise -- has any compelling solutions to what ails us. How, then, to feel more control over our destiny?

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The Cost of Kindness

Lissa Coffey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Connection, Karuna, Kindness Movement, Suffering, Ellen Degeneres, Altruism, Service, Mentoring, Mentor, War, Interconnectedness, Kindness, Metta, Compassion, Healthy Living News

We are all in this together. The time to recognize our connection to each other, and to be kind to one another, is at hand. It all starts right here, right now.

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When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why

Douglas LaBier | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Psychotherapy, Values, Interconnectedness, New Age, Daphne Merkin, Sigmund Freud, Love, In Treatment, Mental Health, Healthy Living News

Many people who enter psychotherapy today aren't helped at all. Some end up more troubled than when they began treatment.

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Be a Vote for Ubuntu

Birute Regine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leaders as Healers, Dalai Lama, Cooperate, Social Responsibility, Interdependence, General Augusto Pinochet, Interconnectedness, Michelle Bachelet, Samuel Doe, Desmond Tutu, Opportunity to Heal, 2008 Election, Compassion, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Mother Teresa, Ubuntu, Respect, World News

The great leaders of the twenty-first century will have ubuntu. Leaders with ubuntu recognize how their humanity is inextricably bound to others -- if others are diminished, so are they.

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An Autumnal Equinox Prayer

Rev. Meg Riley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interconnectedness, Suicide, Healing, Balance, Autumn Equinox, Grief, Fall Equinox, Prayer, Religion News

This is my equinox prayer for us: May we know the depth and width of the patterns that hold us today. May we recognize the preciousness of each atom that, by being right where it needs to be, creates balance and stability and wholeness.

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Why We Need To Work With Symbols

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Symbolism, Religion, Internet, Sufism, Dreams, The Bible, Soul, Interconnectedness, Sacred, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

A symbol is not just an image, but is like a door into the inner world of the soul, through which we can access the energy and meaning that belongs to this sacred dimension of our self.

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Revering Our Roots

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Quantum Physics, Language, Colonialism, Boa Sr, Interconnectedness, Aboriginal Culture, Andaman Islands, Western Science, Politics News

The phenomenon of disappearing aboriginal cultures -- and languages -- isn't what I would call sad. It is something far more dire, akin to the disappearance of the rainforests.

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The Internet as a Living Symbol of Global Oneness

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Internet, Social Networks, Global-Unity, Interconnectedness, Oneness, Sacred, Symbols, Communication, Healthy Living News

This first time that I went online I saw in that moment how the Internet could give the whole of humanity direct access to this interconnectedness and global oneness.

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A Crossed Wire: A Call For Help

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Interconnectedness, Awareness, Six Degrees of Separation, Refuge, Love, Bravery, A Call for Help, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

We really all should be committed to taking care of one another - we're not even six degrees of separation away. We're barely one crossed wire away.

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Scratching the Itch

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interconnectedness, Canada, Media, Entertainment, Justice, Aboriginals, Politics News

The whole point of so much of what we do seems to be to weed people out. We do it for fun, and without awareness. The following miniature news item, ...

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