Just Like Me
It is the habit of the mind in separation to want to externalize everything. If we have not fully accepted the anger or hurt or rigidity we carry within our own hearts, we seek it out in others and blame or judge the qualities we see.
It is the habit of the mind in separation to want to externalize everything. If we have not fully accepted the anger or hurt or rigidity we carry within our own hearts, we seek it out in others and blame or judge the qualities we see.
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
It turns out that one of the most basic things we all learned as children -- treat others how you would like to be treated, the Golden Rule -- is the most powerful idea in the world.
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
I think that this holiday, rather than dwell on the question of what I am grateful for in my life I will instead consider questions like "am I truly giving?"
GOOD | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong just released her Charter for Compassion. Here it is, read by a perfectly representative demographic cross-section of...
Bob Lingvall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Self-awareness is a very mysterious phenomenon. How is it that matter can be self-aware? Is matter somehow creating you and me?
Anne Naylor | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
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.
Tara Stiles | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
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.
Mike Robbins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
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?
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact
The Christian Organization Compassion aims to use its influence and funds to "release children from poverty." Their latest campaign, the Child Surviva...
Bob Lingvall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
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.
Deborah Calla | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
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?
Mike Robbins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living
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).
Jim Selman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
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.).
Deborah Calla | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
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.
Doc Childre | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Many people are feeling a shift in consciousness happening now and some are predicting a major planetary shift around the year 2012.
Deborah Calla | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
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.
Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
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?
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
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.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
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...
Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
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.
Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
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.
Judith Ellis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
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.
Beth Weinstock | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
Yoga helps us uncover how close or far we are from being with ourselves, and helps us to close the gap.
Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
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.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living