Suffering

Reflections on Project Visit to the Dominican Republic

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Dominican Republic, Social Justice, Global Poverty, Suffering, Bateyes, Bv-Sunday, Black Voices News
Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr.

On May 14-17, I had the fortunate opportunity to have traveled to the Dominican Republic with Children International. This non-profit organization helps to provide impoverished children with meaningful benefits and services that help them grow up into viable leaders.

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'The Doctor Will See You ... When?': Patients, Patience And Health Care

Robert Klitzman, M.D. | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Religion, Mental Health, Time, Physicians, Experience, Suffering, Health, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Health Care, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Robert Klitzman, M.D.

Recently, I interviewed a group of doctors who had become patients, and who repeatedly described their astonishment to suddenly experience time very differently.

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Perfecting Patience

Tsoknyi Rinpoche | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Pain, Fear, Anger, Patience, Bodhichitta, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism, Suffering, Spiritual Development, Personal Growth, Spirit, Have Patience, Personal Development, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News
Tsoknyi Rinpoche

When we encounter situations that requires patience, can we look at it as an opportunity to be the person we already are?

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Looking For Suffering In All The Wrong Places

Rachel Adams | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Down Syndrome, Disability, Parenting, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Judaism, Suffering, Becoming-Fearless, Religion News
Rachel Adams

Equating Down syndrome with suffering, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach praises the "doctors who work tirelessly so that this disease can be purged and children came into the world healthy." Down syndrome is not a disease.

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Why Does G-d Allow Children To Be Born With Disabilities?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Judaism, Down Syndrome, Chabad, Children With Disabilities, God, Suffering, Torah, Religion News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

We Jews protest and remonstrate against suffering. We don't excuse it. We don't justify it. We don't find beauty in it. We don't find spiritual purpose it in. We fight it and, to the best of our ability, cure it.

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What The Titanic And A Ship That Sailed 300 Years Before Her Can Teach Us

Stephen Mansfield | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Humility, Suffering, The Mayflower, Titanic, Pilgrims, God, Faith, Religion News
Stephen Mansfield

It is the tale of two ships. One should easily have completed its maiden voyage, the other would have raised few questions had she sunk. The one carried the wealth of an age, the other a people harried from their nation for their faith.

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Each And Every Suicide Diminishes Us

Lorna Byrne | Posted 04.17.2012

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Lorna Byrne

Each and every suicide in the world diminishes you and me. No matter if you don't know the person, their family, or even if they live on the other side of the world from you

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My Good Friday

Charles Redfern | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Crucifixion of Jesus, Suffering, Good Friday, Holy Week, Cancer, Crucifixion, Easter, Christianity, Prayer and Meditation, Religion News
Charles Redfern

I peered into the Incarnation's beauty: Jesus is fully God and fully human. He didn't merely act like a human; he wasn't a human-like wraith. He was God living a genuinely human life, which means God himself begged for mercy on a dark night.

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Are You Addicted To Struggle?

Mike Robbins | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Adversity, Suffering, Mike Robbins, Addiction, Struggle, Addicted to Struggle, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Fighting Addiction, Addictions, Overcoming Addiction, Addiction and Recovery, Conquering Addiction, Healthy Living News
Mike Robbins

While working hard, overcoming challenges and adversity, and being passionately committed to important and complex things in our lives aren't inherently bad, resisting ease and being attached to struggle causes me and so many of us a great deal of stress, worry, and pain.

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Between Sundays: Holy Week And The Importance Of Weekday Christians

Rev. Emily C. Heath | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Christians, Easter, Worship, Church, Doubt, Suffering, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Good Friday, Rev. Emily C. Heath, Clergy, Holy Week, Palm Sunday, United Church of Christ, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Religion News
Rev. Emily C. Heath

To me, the most comforting part of Holy Week is not the waving of triumphal palms on one Sunday morning, or the flowers and joyous hymns on the next. It's what happens in between.

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Did You Celebrate Hoodie Sunday?

Rev. Amy Ziettlow | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Suffering, Oscar Romero, Hoodie Sunday, Lent, Trayvon Martin, Religion News
Rev. Amy Ziettlow

Wearing a hoodie may seem like a superficial thing we can do with our individual bodies, but if in doing so we show our solidarity as one body of humanity then I will don a hoodie.

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From Oy to Ohm: Finding My Inner Dalai Lama

Elise Sax | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Post50 Health, Reinvention, Baby Boomers, Tibetan Nuns, Suffering, Living in the Moment, Cancer Survivor, Cancer, Coping With Life, Pema Chodron, Fifty News
Elise Sax

I'm practicing to be a Tibetan nun, but lately I've been wondering if I need hair extensions and Botox. Tibetan nuns probably don't think a lot about hair extensions and Botox, which doesn't say a lot about my chances of becoming a Tibetan nun.

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Take Away Suffering From Chronic Physical Pain

Swati Desai, Ph.D., LCSW | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Chronic Pain, Pain and Suffering, Suffering, Overcoming Suffering, Moment of Clarity, Consciousness, Healthy Living News
Swati Desai, Ph.D., LCSW

Physical pain creates psychological suffering, just the way psychological suffering can create physical pain. Investigate, get clarity and then work on the underlying issue.

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Who Suffers More: Alzheimer's Patients or Their Caregivers?

Marie Marley | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Stress, Emotional Distress, Caregiving, Dementia, Agitation, Suffering, Alzheimer's, Caregiver, Forgetting, Worry, Marie Marley, Alzheimer's Caregivers, Dementia Caregivers, Caregivers, Healthy Living News
Marie Marley

To help reduce your distress the next time your loved one is distressed, try to remain aware that people with dementia live only in the present. That way you can end your suffering as quickly as your loved one does, and then you can both move on to something more pleasant.

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Why Should We Not Be Mad At God?

David Wilson | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Christianity, Mad at Jesus, God, Suffering, Angry at God, Jesus, Religion-and-Suffering, Mad at God, Religion News
David Wilson

Why should we not be mad at God? We've gone to church, tithed, helped the poor, fed the hungry and sheltered the homeless just as His word instructs us to do. Why then has this happened to us?

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None Is Saved While One Still Suffers

Christian Piatt | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Religion, Salvation, Louis CK, Soul, Jesus, Lord's Prayer, Thy Kingdom Come, Christianity, Christian, Christ, Belief, Faith, Suffering, Save Soul, Save, Religion News
Christian Piatt

What if we don't each possess "a soul"? What if there is some greater Collective Soul in which we get to take part, but which we never own, so to speak?

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Suffering Is Your Creation

Sadhguru | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Pain, Sadhguru, Yoga, Suffering, Spirituality, Spirit, Healthy Living News
Sadhguru

Pain is a natural process in the body. Suffering is self created. Once you stop suffering, you are suddenly free from what is happening to your body, and you are free from what is happening to the world.

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The Life Out Loud: Chip Conley's Emotional Equations

MeiMei Fox | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: The Life Out Loud, Fear, Emotional Equations, Despair, Living Out Loud, Self-Actualization, Chip Conley, Vulnerability, Surrender, Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, Joy, Life Out Loud, Suffering, Joie De Vivre, Authenticity, Self-Improvement, Love, Gratitude, Abraham Maslow, Lisa Keating, Impact News
MeiMei Fox

Have you ever met someone for the first time and -- not in a romantic or sexual way -- inexplicably tumbled into a space-time vortex of pure human-to-human connection?

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The One-Legged "Yogini"

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Iyengar-Yoga, Yoga, Polio, Eastern Teachings, New Jersey, Suffering, Fifties, Dharma, India, Kofi Busia, Gym, Enlightenment, Teaching, Compassion, Healthy Living News
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

You would think that, as an Iyengar-style yoga teacher of three (mere) years' standing, I might at least notice if a one-legged yogini (female yoga student) "walked" into my classroom. Reader, I did not notice.

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Why Suffering And Spiritiality Go Hand-in-Hand

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa | Posted 02.04.2012

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Gadadhara Pandit Dasa

Suffering doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. It can help us grow and mature in ways we can't even imagine. It can give us realizations about life which otherwise would be difficult to acquire.

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Suffering, Thanksgiving And The Book of Job

Levi Ben-Shmuel | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: The Book of Job, God and Suffering, Faith, Human Suffering, Suffering, Thanksgiving, Scripture Commentary, Thanksgiving Reflection, Suffering and Thanksgiving, Job and Thanksgiving, Religion News
Levi Ben-Shmuel

Even at the depth of Job's suffering, he engages God. He does not cut himself off from the ability to give thanks. Job doesn't deny his own pain; he uses it as a gateway to go deeper into his relationship with God.

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Is Karma Real? Explaining Why Bad Things Happen

Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Suffering, Karma, Blame, God, Evil, Belief, Faith, Healthy Living Health News, Why Do Bad Things Happen, Why Bad Things Happen, Consciousness, Good and Evil, Healthy Living Spirit, Beliefs, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

Because suffering is part of human life, everyone asks why it exists, and the answers we give to ourselves make a great deal of difference.

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Socially-Conscious Stress Management

Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Stress, Suffering, Occupy Wall Street, Stress Relief, Socially-Conscious, Relaxation, Stress Management, Mindfulness, Healthy Living Spirit, Materialism, Life Balance, Healthy Living News
Mitchell J. Rabin

There is so much turmoil in our nation and in the world today, I see that people are overwhelmed and significantly stressed in trying to understand an...

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Are We All Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Stress, Blame, Self-Awareness, Panic, Blaming Other, Consciousness, Suffering, Healthy Living Spirit, Emotional Stress, Post Traumatic Stress, Acts of God, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

You can't figure out how to fix bad tings until you know why they happened. This applies to society but also to our personal lives.

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The Purpose of Prayer in a Modern World

Jeffrey Small | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Meditation, Theodicy, God, Suffering, Placebo, Meditation Practice, Prayer, Christianity, Contemplation, Does Prayer Work, Religion News
Jeffrey Small

Do problems with seeing prayer as divine intervention mean that prayer is a pointless exercise? Not at all. Maybe we just need to rethink the purpose of prayer in a modern world.

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