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There is a Beauty Within You #11: Are You More Than Culture Can Speak

Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Relationships, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Meditation, Self-Esteem, Compassion, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Self-awareness is a very mysterious phenomenon. How is it that matter can be self-aware? Is matter somehow creating you and me?

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Can An Ordinary Person Enjoy A State Of Grace?

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Sleeplessness, Forgiving, Trust, Sacrifice, The Inner Life, Surrender, Compassion, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Rumi, God, William Hazlitt, Grace, Dr John-Roger, Hayley Westenra, Security, Faith, Confidence, Gratitude, Living News
Anne Naylor

Can we create the conditions in which we lead grace-full lives? Is it even possible to expect to live gracefully, with the world in so much chaos? My view is that there has never been a better time.

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Relaxation: The Art of Doing Nothing (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Tension, Relaxation, Yoga, Ram Dass, The Dalai Lama, Tara Stiles, Calm, Inner Calm, Anxiety, Compassion, Living News
Tara Stiles

tension is like a clogged drain, keeping what we don't need from dropping away, standing in the way of our potential. We need to dig out all the sludge.

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Don't Waste A Good Crisis

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Support, Self Help, Motivational Speaker, Empathy, Honesty, Transformation, Mike Robbins, Authenticity, Healing, Surrender, Compassion, Problems, Happiness, Living News
Mike Robbins

Instead of just gutting it out or going into some form of creative denial, what if we embraced the crises in our lives and actually utilized them for the incredible growth opportunities that they are?

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A Solution For Infant Mortality? Christian Organization Emphasizes Its Child Survival Program

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Literacy, Psas, Illiteracy, Psa, Child Survival Program, Breast Feeding, Adult Literacy, Immunization, Compassion, Infant Mortality, Impact News

The Christian Organization Compassion aims to use its influence and funds to "release children from poverty." Their latest campaign, the Child Surviva...

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There Is a Beauty Within You #10: When Love and Awareness Meet

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Relationships, Personality, Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, Meditation, Self-Esteem, Compassion, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Yoga, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Immersed in the most personal of personal loves, we are a point of awareness in an ocean of compassionate love; a butterfly on the back of a whale preparing to dive.

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The Difference Between My Dog And Me

Deborah Calla | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Losing a Partner, Losing a Loved One, Moving On, Life Is a Gift, Loss, The Inner Life, Compassion, Dogs, Moving Forward, Living News
Deborah Calla

One minute a person is part of our lives and then in the next they are gone -- leaving a huge hole in our lives. How to make sense of it?

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Be Real Not Right

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Motivational Speaker, Empathy, Honesty, Righteousness, Mike Robbins, Self Help, Authenticity, Compassion, Living News
Mike Robbins

As I've learned and you've probably noticed as well, it's not only impossible to be right all the time, it's exhausting, stressful, and no fun (for us or others).

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N.O.P.E.: National Organization of Pissed Off Elders

Jim Selman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Social Security, Elders, Drag Race, Bureaucrats, Power, Capitalism, Common Sense, Compassion, Ideology, Decency, Politics, Scooters, Freedom, Principles, Slogan, Goodwill, Customer Service, Nope, Zoomers, Sex, Living News
Jim Selman

I want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society. I think I'll call it the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders (N.O.P.E.).

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Step Aside For Anger

Deborah Calla | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Understanding, Hatred, Anger, Control Your Anger, Compassion, How to Control Anger, The Inner Life, Living News
Deborah Calla

Anger, I know it so well. I lived with it for a very long time and have claimed it as a kin of mine. It got my heart rate and blood pressure up, and it got my adrenaline, and noradrenaline up.

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Do Relationships Need Lies to Survive?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Reassurance, Singled Out, Little Lies, Hurt Feelings, Lies, Relationships, Best Friends, Writing, Singles, Serious Lies, Compassion, Death, Loyalty, Deception, Media News, Love, Betrayal, Blogging, Living News
Bella DePaulo

I draw a big line between little lies and big ones. Serious lies -- the big time betrayals of trust -- are probably never good for relationships of any kind. Little lies are often a different matter entirely.

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Dan Brown's New Book, 2012 - Are You Ready for the Consciousness Shift?

Doc Childre | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Deborah Rozman, Emotions, Fear, Heartmath, Consciousness, Institute of HeartMath, Global Coherence Initiative, The Lost Symbol, Science, Shift, Planet, Doc Childre, Compassion, Dan Brown, 2012, Living News
Doc Childre

Many people are feeling a shift in consciousness happening now and some are predicting a major planetary shift around the year 2012.

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A Love Letter To My Husband

Deborah Calla | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Cancer, Love Letters, Widows, Compassion, Gift of Love, Death, Relationships, Living News
Deborah Calla

I have now been a widow for fourteen months My loss is huge. My husband was fun, funny, intelligent, and he wished for my happiness.

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Project Love: Radically Transform Your World In 2 Minutes

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Project Love, Riga, Alex Benzer, Mindfulness, Secrets of Happiness, Compassion, How to Feel Great, How to Feel Good, The Inner Life, Living News
Dr. Alex Benzer

If I showed you a technique that elevates your mood, energizes you and makes you more charismatic on top of it all, would you be willing to spend 2 minutes testing it out for yourself?

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Law, Allison Johnson, Debate, Undocumented Immigrants, President Obama, Scripture, Media, Health Care Plan, Immigration, Immigrants, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Legislation, Immigration Status, Faith Groups, Fact Checkers, Moral Obligation, Public Policies, Immigrant, Immigrant Children, Christian Scriptures, Members of Congress, Values, Pregnant Women, Policy Debate, Health Care Coverage, Moral Priorities, Teaching, Stranger, Safety Net, Health Care, Christians, Public Policy, Fear, Lying, Subsidies, Politics, Community, Basic Human Needs, Medicaid, Congress, Faith Communities, Migrants, Moral Issue, Reform Legislation, Moral Consideration, Compassion, Jewish, Moral Values, Moral Issues, Moral Mandate, Inclusion, Faith Community, Political Feasibility, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Undocumented Immigrant, Legal Immigrants, Christian, Health Care System, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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Violence On The Street: How To Be A Good Activist

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Anger, Compassion, Politics, Media, Ed an Deb Shapiro, Deb Shapiro, Seane Corn, Ed Shapiro, Activism, The Giving Life, Activist, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

There is a lot of anger on our streets these days, against healthcare, racism and Afghanistan, which made us consider what is most effective: resistan...

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How Would You Decide? -- Keeping Me Honest

Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Tenzin N. Taklha, The Dalai Lama, Michele Kane, Ethics, The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Justice, Terry Thornton, James Whitehouse, Compassion, Living News
Jim Lichtman

I do not want to create the false impression that compassion was the sole criteria parole commissioners faced during former Manson Family member Susan Atkins' 2009 hearing.

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Travel as Therapy, Pt 2: 10 Ways to Heal the Soul & Expand the Mind

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Alex Benzer, Tao of Dating, Wealth-Consciousness, No-Self, Warsaw, Riga, Expansiveness, Fixing Compulsions, Estonia, Compassion, Awakening the Senses, Wake Up to Your Senses, Travel as Therapy, T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Anatta, New Identity, Living News
Dr. Alex Benzer

Your brain is supremely skilled at filtering out the familiar and telling you only about what matters - namely, change. Travel bypasses that filter and awakens your senses by confronting you with the unfamiliar.

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Being Concerned about 'the Least of These'

Judith Ellis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bailout, Viacom, Children, Lobbyists, Foreclosure, Wall Street Banks, Arianna Huffington, Compassion, Gates Foundation, Politics News
Judith Ellis

When I meet parents and children for the first time who have been foreclosed on, it is the look in the kids' eyes that tell the story of hardship.

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The Lessons From Yoga Keep Coming

Beth Weinstock | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Inner-Critic, Compassion, Self Confidence, Benefits of Yoga, Inner Critic, Living News
Beth Weinstock

Yoga helps us uncover how close or far we are from being with ourselves, and helps us to close the gap.

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How Would You Decide? -- Part II

Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Living News, What Do You Stand For?, The Golden Rule, Peter Westbrook, Sharon Tate, Ethics, Charles Manson, Immanuel Kant, Justice, Compassion, Michael Josephson, Living News
Jim Lichtman

I asked readers to imagine sitting on the California parole board to decide whether to grant convicted murderer Susan Atkins "compassionate release" based on her terminally ill condition.

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How Would You Decide?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Ethics, Charles Manson, Forgiveness, Justice, Compassion, California, Manson Family, Sharon Tate, Parole Board, Living News
Jim Lichtman

Isn't it up to God to forgive the truly horrible, like members of the Manson Family? Should we forgive all mass-murderers? Must we go that far?

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The Secret of Patient Care: Lessons From A Bathroom Wall

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Caring, Patient, Healing, Doctor, Empathy, Compassion, Health, Patient Care, Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

When physicians express caring, empathy, and compassion, the duration and severity of illness are often reduced and the body's immune system is stimulated.

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Can We Change Our Personality?

Todd Kashdan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Intelligence, Personality, Mindfulness, Perseverance, Compassion, Self-Help, Living News
Todd Kashdan

Researchers have found that we define a stranger's personality after a mere 10 seconds. With this thin slice of information, we start to think and act differently toward them.

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There is a Beauty Within You #3: Knowing Yourself as Compassionate Awareness

Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Spiritual Health, Meditation, Discernment, Compassion, Positive Energy, Identity, Self-Awareness, Living News
Bob Lingvall

Throughout your day imagine being compassion, radiating warmth and love from the center of your chest, especially when you want to relax and feel more grounded.

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