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Jacob D. Myers: Holy Ink: The Spirituality Of Tattoos

2012-05-30T19:56:00Z

Tattoos often signify one's relationships, one's movement beyond her daily existence to another plane of reality, and a new awareness of a person's being-in-the-world. Tattooing presents the bearer with several experiences that are rarely matched in the world.

Read more: Slideexpand, Spiritual Development, Tattoo Artists, Spiritual Journey, Religious Art, Spirit, Spirituality, Tattoos, Religion News

Carol Orsborn: Downtime: A Life's Work In Question

2012-05-30T15:21:32Z

The possibility that I am to pass off the face of this earth not as a headline, nor even as a footnote, is somehow both sobering and liberating.

Read more: Work-Life Balance, Travel, Vacation, Spirituality, Workaholics, Sleep Deprivation, Corporate Culture, Self-Help, Mindful Living, Religion News

Robert Klitzman, M.D.: 'The Doctor Will See You ... When?': Patients, Patience And Health Care

2012-05-30T14:09:46Z

Recently, I interviewed a group of doctors who had become patients, and who repeatedly described their astonishment to suddenly experience time very differently.

Read more: Religion, Mental Health, Time, Physicians, Experience, Suffering, Health, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Health Care, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

Molly Hahn: Today's Buddha Doodle -- 'Compassion'

2012-05-30T12:47:14Z

Read more: Meditation, Unplug and Recharge, Buddha, Healthy Living Spirit, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Gps-Soul, Good News News

Joel and Michelle Levey: Reflections On Wisdom, Wellness, And Wholeness

2012-05-30T07:33:14Z

The teachings of all the world's great wisdom traditions remind us that we have both an ordinary and a extraordinary identity, a personal and a universal nature.

Read more: Dalai Lama, Wisdom, Contemplation, Wholeness, Meditation, Merton, Buddhism, Compassion, Mind, Wellness, Spiritual Development, World Religions, Religion, Mindful Living, Spirit, Emotional Wellness, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

Jonathan Talat Phillips: Top 10 Books of the New Edge

2012-05-29T16:31:08Z

Spiritual counterculture are harder to define, hosting a multidimensional mix of spiritual awakening, new media activism, visionary art, punk attitude, permaculture principles, Burning Man aesthetic and Occupy ideologies.

Read more: Art, Spirituality, Ayahuasca, Literature, Writing, New Edge Books, Religious Books, New Edge, Slidepollajax, Religion News

Stacey Nemour: New Kung Fu Children's Book Helps Development of Mind, Body and Spirit

2012-05-29T11:00:23Z

The book Little Monk and the Mantis is a thrilling tale from Hollywood screenwriter John Fusco of one boy's search for self-expression, courage and the peaceful, non-violent teachings at the root of true martial arts.

Read more: Childrens Books, Meditation, Shaolin Kung Fu, Spirituality, Pray Mantis Kung Fu, Martial Arts for Children, Books News

Dr. Ali Binazir: How To Access You Own Bottomless Well Of Beauty

2012-05-27T09:18:24Z

However you do it, get back in touch with your body, your heart, and reconnect to your source of wonder. Because that wonder is you.

Read more: Ali Binazir, Tommy Rosen, Opening the Heart, Breaking Open the Heart, Tadasana Festival, Self-Respect, Hatha Yoga, Enlightenment, Awakening, Kundalini Yoga, Spiritual Growth, Gps-Soul, Emotional Wellness, Yoga, Spiritual Development, Emotional Health, Healthy Living News

Peter Baksa: Who or What Is God?

2012-05-26T00:13:24Z

What is the story you are telling yourself? How does this story keep you stuck, fearful, angry and arguing for more of the same?

Read more: Science and Religion, Spirituality, God, Quantum Physics, Einstein, Spiritual Development, Religion, Consciousness, Gps-Soul, Theology, Science, Quantum Theory, Healthy Living News

Debra Ollivier: Esalen: 50 Years Ago, A 'Crazy Place On A Godforsaken Road' Launched The New Age Movement

2012-05-25T10:24:00Z

In 1962, on a stunning stretch of land bordering the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California, two Stanford graduates founded a retreat center called The Esalen Institute. Their goal: Create a space where people could explore holistic approaches to wellness and personal transformation.

Read more: Social and Personal Transformation, Baby Boomers, Esalen, Human Potential Movement, Dick Price, New Age, Michael Murphy, Consciousness Raising, Spirituality, Slideexpand, Fifty News

Eitan Press: Thinking Outside The Book: Shavuot And The Great Torah Download

2012-05-24T20:06:05Z

Many people associate the word "Torah" with the Five books of Moses, but according to Jewish wisdom, the Torah and what was given at Mt. Sinai was much more than a book.

Read more: Shavuot, Jewish Holidays, Consciousness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Jewish Spirituality, God, Torah, Judaism, Religion News

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa: Is God A Person?

2012-05-24T21:23:32Z

Even though it may sound attractive or may be easier to understand that God is formless energy, as far as I'm concerned, it's not possible to exchange love with formless energy

Read more: Monotheistic, Eternal, Relationship, Soul, Krishna, Merge, Impersonalism, Vaisnava, Death, Hinduism, God, Transcendental, Spiritual, Liberation, Gaudiya Vaisnavism, Supreme, Bhagavad Gita, Brahma-Samhita, Theistic, Religion News

Robert Levithan: At Last...

2012-05-23T15:19:00Z

Much to my surprise, I can no longer say that I don't want to get married. I always thought that not having to get married was one of the benefits of being gay. I have never imagined living fully within the fabric of my society. The rebel in me resists giving up my outlaw status.

Read more: Gay Rights, Doma, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Gay Marriage, NY Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage New York, New York Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage Ny, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Gay Voices News

Erin Joy Henry: Crying Saved My Life

2012-05-23T10:31:17Z

Crying was for the weak girls who couldn't be alone and needed boys to carry their bags for them. Crying was for the girls who sat out from P.E. because they had their periods and were too scared to participate in the game of life. Or so I thought.

Read more: Fear, Spiritual Growth, Self-Acceptance, Crying, Strength, Fear of Intimacy, Vulnerability, Intimacy, Happiness, Becoming-Fearless, Women News

Frank Schaeffer: Inclusive Jesus (and Others at Wild Goose) Now on the West Coast Too

2012-05-17T14:48:54Z

I'm still hungry for the community faith can provide when its not busy judging others. I want to share that good news. And Wild Goose Festival is the place I've discovered that shares that vision.

Read more: Paul Fromberg, Women's Rights, Social Justice, Over the Rhine, T-Bone Burnett, Restoring Eden, Peggy & Tony Campolo, Beer, Jim Forbes, Lynne Hybels, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Religious Right, Laughter, William Barber, Inter-Varsity Press, Music, Family Frank Schaeffer, Michelle Shocked, Religion, Gabriel Salguero, Gay Rights, Jim Wallis, Phyllis Tickle, Brian McLaren, Vincent Harding, Inclusive Faith, Spirituality, Religion News

Derek Rose: Stanford Grad Dies in Cave as World Peace Experiment Stumbles

2012-05-22T14:50:55Z

McNally, 39, an internationally known yoga teacher and spiritual guide who co-founded the retreat, was near death herself when she used a cell phone to call for help, according to witness accounts.

Read more: Isolation, Ian Thorson, Buddhists, Christie-Mcnally, Meditation, Cochise County, Stanford, Buddhism, Diamond Mountain University, Spirituality, Dehydration, Weird News News

Abdi Assadi: Wake Up And Live

2012-05-21T06:20:43Z

Only we can awaken our selves. That takes hard, hard work. Any one who tells us otherwise is lying.

Read more: True Self, Spirit, Spiritual, Awaken True Self, Inner Life, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Outer Life, Mindful Living, Healthy Living News

Gary Zukav: Gary Zukav On Spiritual Spring Cleaning

2012-05-18T14:41:45Z

Windows are open wide in the spring, carpets hang outside on the line, and the breeze is gentle and warm. It is the best time to rid yourself of unwanted accumulations, vacuum the dust, take down cobwebs and challenge your fears. Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health.

Read more: Spring Cleaning, Oprah Winfrey, Mindful Living, Mindfulness, Gary Zukav, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

It's a Mega Painting!

2012-05-17T08:00:18Z

The Central Asian artist Lekim Ibragimov recently completed a mega-painting debuting in July that brings the ambition of the famous collection of folk...

Read more: World's Largest Artwork, World's Largest Painting, Angels, Slideexpand, Central Asia, Spirituality, Lekim Ibragimov, Folk Tales, Video, Arts News

Andrew Z. Cohen: When All Our Problems Disappear

2012-05-16T20:00:00Z

Highly educated, thoughtful, sensitive men and women are gradually becoming more and more aware of the fact nobody seems to know how human life is supposed to be lived in this second decade of the 21st century.

Read more: Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Buddhism, Spiritual Journey, Mindfulness, Religion News

Aaron Anson: Seek Your Own Truth

2012-05-16T19:43:12Z

We must seek those quiet spaces in our life that are safe for vulnerable explorations of meaning. These spaces are not found inside physical institutions or places where demagoguery slays reflective, rational and factually grounded discourse.

Read more: Myths, Religious Beliefs, Truth, God, Spiritual Journey, Seeking God, Spiritual Development, Spiritual Path, Faith, Belief, Spirit, Religion News

Patricia Crisafulli: Listening to the Heron

2012-05-16T17:52:44Z

What carries meaning or significance for you? When is an object, event or occurrence more than what it appears on the surface?

Read more: Symbolism, Creativity, Birds, Creative Writing, Inspiration, Fifty News, Writing, Symbols, Spirituality, Fifty News

Thomas Moore: All Books Are Sacred

2012-05-16T10:21:47Z

In our modern way of thinking, we believe we can separate the contents of a book from the material it's written on and bound with. But anyone who loves books knows that the book is what you hold in your hand.

Read more: Library, Bookstores, Spirituality, Books, Books News

Dr. Cara Barker: Disarming Distractions, Returning To Soul

2012-05-16T08:00:04Z

The mind translates our experience as product of the good or bad, the beautiful or ugly, a transmission depending upon the GPS we choose.

Read more: Dance of Life, Be the Love, Wisdom, Law of Creation, Spiritual Practice, Call of the Beloved, Beauty, Beyond the Beyond, Soul, The Love Project: Coming Home, Soul Practice, Gps-Soul, GPS for the Soul, Creative Breakthrough, Return to Soul, Gps Soul, GPS for Soul, Healthy Living News

Margaret Paul, Ph.D.: Relationships: Why You Attract Who You Attract

2012-05-15T17:05:16Z

While no one deliberately seeks out someone who is closed, negative and needy, if this is you, this is what you will attract into your life. If you want a loving relationship, then you need to do the work of learning how to take emotional responsibility

Read more: Self-Abandonment, Margaret Paul, Emotional Responsibility, Relationships, Emotional Health, Self-Love, Relationship Help, Inner Bonding, Spirituality, Victim, Healthy Living News