Within each of us resides the most powerful force on the planet. Love. Sometimes, love requires action, because without action motivated by love, nothing changes. Action requires the courage to connect to our hearts, feel what is happening within and empathize with the suffering of others. True courage is the...

What does a Kung Fu instructor from Israel, a state prosecutor from Oklahoma, a Romanian computer programmer, a realtor from Sugarland, Texas, and a Grammy nominee from Tibet have in common? They all joined together with more than 400 other people from around the world to listen to

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I love connecting with inspiring people who have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place. Jeff Corwin is that guy. Jeff exemplifies the power of what one person can accomplish in a positive way to improve our world.

I've been an admirer of Jeff Corwin's work...

As a child, I spent hours immersed in my father's National Geographic magazines, captivated by photographs of Dr. Jane Goodall interacting with Chimpanzees in Tanzania. She was a hero to me, an inspiring woman who represented the possibility of living your dreams while helping the animals...

When we travel, we have the opportunity to increase our awareness of the world at large. Many of my experiences have hit a chord within me that broadened my worldview and reminded me of the inherent connection we all share regardless of our culture, nationality, religion and gender.
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In my world there are no accidents. If I'm listening, everyone is my guru. So here I am at The Center for Living Peace in southern California, teaching a workshop entitled Love You 365 with my friend and workshop co-founder, Kelly Thornton Smith. In the workshop,...

I had a dream a couple nights ago. A mysterious figure was speaking to me about the meaning of the word "tolerance." The voice instructed me to wake up, get out of bed and write down the content of my dream, but I refused, certain I would remember everything. When...

I was first introduced to Eckhart Tolle's teachings many years ago, while wandering through a bookstore on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. His book called to me, as books often do. Standing by itself on an empty display table across the crowded store was a lone copy of

Ten years ago, while I was attending a retreat in which we were delving into our negative beliefs about ourselves, a woman said, "I just realized I've been living with an emotional abuser my whole life. It's me. I'm the abuser." Her words hit home and changed the way I...

On a recent trip to the dreamy sun-washed landscape of Newport Beach, Calif., to celebrate the second birthday for the Center for Living Peace, my friend Kelly Smith's labor of love that brings peacemakers from the community and abroad to inspire people to live peace, I indulged in...

I'm among the throngs of avid early-morning exercisers at the gym. Ten large TVs loom above my Stairmaster blasting a potpourri of programming, all competing for my attention.

I resist the lure of E! Hollywood True Story, since I'm fairly certain I'll be swept into someone else's drama only to...

My husband and I enter an online lottery to win tickets to Oprah's Life Class Live, because we love Oprah and she is coming to our hometown -- NYC. We don't win.

Fast-forward a month later, I'm in a meeting with someone, and he randomly mentions he'd just met Tony...