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Wonder Alert: August 2004

Robert G. Zuckerman | Posted 05.20.2013 | Healthy Living
Robert G. Zuckerman

Over 300 billion known breaths were taken and there were an estimated several trillion heartbeats. Be on the look out and report all acts of wonder to everybody.

Good Human Beings and the Right Temporoparietal Junction

Cindy Wigglesworth | Posted 05.20.2013 | TED Weekends
Cindy Wigglesworth

2013-01-18-TEDplayvideo.jpgWhat sets a truly noble person apart? What makes a Gandhi, Dalai Lama, or Mother Teresa different? There is a decision made by these people to hold themselves to a higher standard. They make a decision to live up to noble values -- to live from their highest nature. In what part of the brain does this ability reside?

Carresse Warren: New York City, April 23, 2010

Robert G. Zuckerman | Posted 05.13.2013 | Healthy Living
Robert G. Zuckerman

We smile and shake hands. "Keep me posted!" I say. "I will for sure!" And we each go our way beneath the sunny sky, in the afternoon warmth.

Detecting Humanists: New Mysteries by Anne Perry and Walter Mosley

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 04.29.2013 | Books
Nina Sankovitch

Do I look for humanist detectives to buttress my own belief in the inherent goodness of human beings -- that by using our hearts and our minds, we can save the world?

Manifesto On Basic Goodness

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche | Posted 04.30.2013 | Religion
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

We want to live in a world of peace and goodness. We want a world where the highest values are tolerance, generosity, creativity, kindness and fearlessness rather than self-absorption, aggression and speed.

Pray For Strength To Choose

Peter A. Georgescu | Posted 04.02.2013 | Religion
Peter A. Georgescu

I've always believed that when you pray for God's will, you are praying simply for the strength and wisdom to choose what God would want you to choose. In other words, you aren't praying for God to intervene in this world. You're praying to enable yourself to do what God would have you do.

Know You're a Good Person

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.13.2013 | Healthy Living
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

For many of us, perhaps the hardest thing of all is to believe that "I am a good person." We can climb mountains, work hard, acquire many skills, act ethically, but truly feel that one is good deep down? Nah!

Newtown: A Crisis of Faith

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 02.20.2013 | Religion
Eliezer Sobel

But my question remains: is it ever even possible to feel and experience a sense of utter and absolute safety in this life in the very same breath that we inhale the daily news?

Compassion for Them All

Peter A. Georgescu | Posted 02.18.2013 | Impact
Peter A. Georgescu

My response to this event is what it's always been when faced with evil: to want to embrace what's good. It's the way I've dealt with evil all my life.

The Rich Are Different

Peter A. Georgescu | Posted 01.20.2013 | Home
Peter A. Georgescu

Hemingway was right: the rich are like all the rest, except they have more money.

Finding Our Virtue

Tim Willard | Posted 01.13.2013 | Politics
Tim Willard

We cannot expect high civility from our national leaders or our own public discourse until we return to the high pursuit of virtuous leading and living. It's time to do the hard work of the good, the beautiful work of the virtue.

The Slap: Rise Up Better Than Before

Laura Berman Fortgang | Posted 12.31.2012 | Healthy Living
Laura Berman Fortgang

Mother Nature has done it again. She slapped us upside the head to knock some sense into us. There is devastation for many. Nothing makes sense for them yet, but for most of us, we've been slapped into awareness.

Shanah Tovah: It's Not About Being Happy -- It's About Doing Good

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman | Posted 11.16.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

There are two Hebrew words that we say many, many times over these High Holy Days. Those two Hebrew words are, of course, shanah tovah. And yet we almost always mistranslate them.

The Era of High Ideals

Swati Desai, Ph.D., LCSW | Posted 07.10.2012 | Impact
Swati Desai, Ph.D., LCSW

At this time in our history, we are at a juncture where our new world order, high-tech based and globally interdependent, demands that goodness decides the new direction: the direction of justness and fairness.

See The Good In Others

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. | Posted 07.03.2012 | Healthy Living
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Seeing the good in others is a simple but very powerful way to feel happier and more confident, and become more loving and more productive in the world.

Upending Political Vitriol

Robert V. Taylor | Posted 06.23.2012 | Politics
Robert V. Taylor

Our culture and political process is adept at demonizing opposing points of view and candidates. What if, instead of accepting this as the norm, we embrace a proactive response that insists on a new discourse?

A Passover Seder for Dults

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 06.06.2012 | Home
Stuart Muszynski

For all people, not just Jewish people, Passover is meant to break through the current-day "narrow straights" that restrict us from achieving the potential that can bring us happiness and help the world. But that potential rests on becoming a Dult.

WATCH: Elettra Wiedemann On Her Culinary Projects And Charity Work

Stylelist/The Huffington Post | Erin Clements | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style

Besides being Isabella Rossellini's daughter and a spokesmodel for LancƓme, Elettra Wiedemann is a London School of Economics grad and rising entrepr...

What The Heck Is A "Good" Man Anyhow?

Tom Matlack | Posted 08.29.2011 | Healthy Living
Tom Matlack

Talking about "goodness" is nearly impossible to pin down. With so many men in the public eye called out for bad behavior, from the very start "good" has been our company's cross to bear.

Why We Don't Need God to Be Good (and What Religious Folk Don't Want You to Know)

Mark Matousek | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Mark Matousek

It is through mirror neurons -- not God -- that we redeem ourselves, achieve salvation, and are "reborn" in virtuous ways once co-opted by religions. Evolution knew what she was doing.

What's Right with America? Let Me List the Books

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert David Steele

I became the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction [or 32/216 overall including movies, software, and fiction) quite by accident, loading 300 reviews fr...

Overcoming Barriers with Electronic Connectivity

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Jim Luce

Where we no longer must allocate the time and resources to go physically to all corners of the earth -- Facebook, Skype, our email takes us there.

Connectivity Is Key To Social Change

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jim Luce

In the spring I travelled to Barcelona for the GSM Association's World Congress, with 49,000 participants spread between mobile phone-related 1,300 ve...

The Stewardship Report on Connecting Goodness Announces Editorial Calendar

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Jim Luce

A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still ...

Heroes Among Us Every Day

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Tom Morris

Wednesday, August 4, 5:40 PM. Outside Screen Gems Film Studios, Wilmington, NC. A large white Toyota pickup truck suddenly accelerated out of the st...