I have chosen and would encourage others to adopt a brand of cynical optimism because it serves as a catalyst for the creativity that is needed to solve the world's most pressing problems.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 05.11.2012
The ability to shift focus is basic to any meditation practice. Try this simple shifting of focus to see if perhaps you are submerged in love, but only lack the awareness of it.
Tio Hardiman | Posted 05.10.2012
One way to look at violence would be to treat violence as a public health issue and work hard on changing the way people think about violence.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 04.20.2012
Zazen is traditionally practiced sitting on a zafu pillow or bench in cross-legged full lotus with erect posture of spine and zero slouching. Part of the traditional character of zen is that it can require mental and physical discipline.
Posted 03.22.2012
On March 22, for the first time ever, Armstrong will present the “State of the Charter for Compassion,” highlighting the progress made around...
Heather McCloskey Beck | Posted 03.26.2012
Laced throughout the history of cultures inhabiting our planet, humanity has repeatedly expressed an ardent and personal yearning for peace within our world. However, this soulful ideation offers cause for deeper reflection.
Jim Luce | Posted 03.11.2012
Recently I agreed to co-host the World Peace, Health and Culture Conference at the United Nations on behalf of Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW),...
Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 03.07.2012
At the end of the day I believe that what we are all seeking is a deeper experience of both sides of love -- the giving of it and the receiving of it. And yet, at times we are our own worst enemies when it comes to the giving and receiving of love because we place too many conditions and qualifications on it.
Marlo Thomas | Posted 03.07.2012
Today my father, Danny Thomas, would have been 100 years old. But this is a special year, one that requires not just looking back but looking forward, as well. Because, fate being as clever as it always is, this year is also the 50th anniversary of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
John Hunter | Posted 01.07.2012
When my students are thrown into a super-heated crucible with a recipe for immediate and complete failure, they don't boil over or give up. They turn lead into gold. Why can't we adults do the same?
Posted 12.26.2011
jQuery(function($) { $('#ad_sharebox_260x60').prepend(''); }); In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are ex...
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 01.08.2012
Could gratitude be a way to inner peace, and perhaps worldly peace? And because gratitude leads to inner peace, it can also be qualified as a type of meditation.
Rob Sobhani | Posted 11.06.2011
What brought these and others from across the globe to Israel this sunny day in October was their firm belief in a certain set of principles. Foremost among them was a belief in the oneness of man.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted 11.21.2011
Today, on the occasion of World Peace Day, I urge all countries of the world to come together -- to come forward -- to allocate a small fraction of their defense budget toward peace education.
Ajarat Bada | Posted 11.13.2011
Religion's potential transcends Marx's opium theory. Religion is not simply a panacea for the psychological imbalance of the masses. It has the power to unify people.
Jonathan Gandomi | Posted 10.25.2011
There is a saying that people get the government they deserve. I don't subscribe to that view, but I do think that the international community gets the U.N. it deserves.
Jonathan Gandomi | Posted 09.25.2011
Baha'is believe that "world peace is not only possible, but inevitable," and that "it is the next stage in the evolution of this planet."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 09.05.2011
As the Dalai Lama celebrated his 76th birthday Wednesday, he didn't do it from his home in the Himalayan hills. Instead, there was an elaborate parade...
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 07.26.2011
There are few bright spots in 2011's Global Peace Index, which reflects a more volatile planet in the wake of the Arab Spring. Prepared by the Ins...
Tamsin Smith | Posted 07.19.2011
Graduation season is upon us. Time to consider the texture and trajectory of our days. Time to talk story. Here is one chapter.
Posted 07.17.2011
By David Giambusso Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Dalai Lama says peace in the world begins with peace in oneself. Some of his fellow N...
Marianne Schnall | Posted 11.17.2011
It feels more important now than ever to put our focus not on a continuing cycle of violence that brings more death, but instead on efforts that contribute to life -- our global safety and health as well as our own personal health and well-being.
Dr. David Liepert | Posted 07.03.2011
It's difficult to conceive of a worse Muslim curse or Islamic affliction than bin Laden. Seeking to drive a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims in America, he ignited a firestorm.
Shai Reshef | Posted 05.25.2011
Higher Education can make world peace closer through the amalgamation of two effects online higher education fosters: the betterment of individual liv...
Raffi Cavoukian | Posted 05.25.2011
Egypt's revolution is humanity's. And as a revolution enhanced by social media before the state silenced them, the Cairo scenario begs a question.
Katherine Krauss | Posted 05.11.2012