The Spiritual Lessons of HIV
I learned to remind myself, every time that I felt tempted to internalize the societal stigma around HIV, that I contracted this disease in the search for human intimacy.
I learned to remind myself, every time that I felt tempted to internalize the societal stigma around HIV, that I contracted this disease in the search for human intimacy.
Julia Moulden | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Maybe we need to acknowledge to ourselves - and say aloud to one another - that it's hard to be out on the edge all the time. That exhaustion comes hand-in-hand with exhilaration.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
How amazing are the dogs that save their owner's lives by sounding the alarm or even calling 911? There are so many extraordinary stories about pets, ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.15.2009 | Living
A while back, I posted about Happiness Myth #7: Doing "random acts of kindness" brings happiness. I wasn't arguing that acts of kindness wouldn't make...
Gangaji | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living
As Americans we have to face our own complicity in the government-sanctioned torture of our time.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
When we have money we tend to build a bigger house and then we have to put a fence around it to keep people out, and then we have to become wary of an...
Karen Stabiner | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
As soon as my daughter was old enough to register my meaning, I explained that Mother's Day was not a holiday I felt the need to celebrate. To a sli...
James M. Lynch | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
Pay it Forward is a 10-year-old movie but the concept wasn't new then and it's not used up yet. The potential to virally spread goodness and beauty is more fertile now than ever.
Windy Citizen | Gabrielle Tompkins | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago
On the eve of April Fools' Day, a 29-year-old Pittsburgh man posted an ad on Craigslist Chicago offering "help with something this weekend" to any Chi...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.11.2009 | Living
This story may be an oldie, relatively speaking, but it's still a goodie -- and a viral one at that! Dry cleaners around the country are offering thei...
Sanjay Khanna | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green
I believe we need to place trust in one another and create community-based responses to climate change, whole or piecemeal, in the face of constraints that are bound to grow over time.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living
A few weeks ago we wrote a blog called "Walking Your Talk: How Do You Treat a Waitress?" We had a great response and so this time we thought we would ...
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 04.05.2009 | Living
We had a TV series in London. One of our fellow TV presenters seriously upset the camera crew when they arrived at his house. He was rude and dismissi...
beliefnet.com | Sharon Salzberg | Posted 03.12.2009 | Living
Kindness, as well as being a quality of the heart, is a skill. It deepens as we learn to pay attention to ourselves and one another with awareness. Wh...
Karen Leland | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living
Several Sunday nights ago ABC's Desperate Housewives departed from their steady diet of illicit affairs, criminal activities and neighborly intrigues ...
Tamar Chansky | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living
Adjusting to this new reality means appreciating that just because there's a crisis going on, you can't live in it all the time: in crisis mode there's nothing to do but get immobilized with dread.
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 01.27.2009 | Living
I find myself looking back and remembering those who showed me enormous kindness -- as well as opportunities for kindness to those I had not been deeply involved with.
Laurie Nadel | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living
These days, most of us feel some resentment towards something or someone: the economy, the President, employers, all the usual suspects. You may even feel angry at God for not intervening.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, a time for counting for our blessings, I offer this stunning video by Br. David-Steindl-Rast, Austrian-born ...
Leslie Goldman | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago
I got out, loaded up with shirts and dresses, and confronted what was possibly the deadest dead tire ever. My heart sank. But then the kindheartedness that defines the Midwest started peeking out from every corner and I was saved by my city.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 08.01.2008 | Living
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -- Maya An...
Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living