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Understanding

Applying the Inside-Out Understanding -- Or Not

Garret Kramer | Posted 05.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Garret Kramer

Without exception, the starting place for everyone's perception and experience is their thinking and the feeling state that ensues.

Breaking Up Doesn't Have to Be Hard to Do

Rebecca Lammersen | Posted 04.17.2013 | Healthy Living
Rebecca Lammersen

Life is a collection of missteps, mistakes and misjudgments transformed to understanding. The regret of our neglected intuition turns to awareness, as we accept the lesson within the experience.

The Greatest Gift: Harmony Cooking for Those You Hate and Love

O'Brien Browne | Posted 04.02.2013 | Business
O'Brien Browne

If you hate your boss, bring her/him home-made muffins. If your best friend is getting on your nerves, bake bread together. If you can't stand your family, cook for them.

4 Ways To Forgive And Let Go

Ashley Turner | Posted 04.30.2013 | Healthy Living
Ashley Turner

Although forgiving someone (or ourselves) can happen in an instant, my experience is that it is usually a much more lengthy process requiring great patience, trust, persistence and prayer -- more like peeling an onion or a lotus blossoming than a lightning bolt.

Mean People Don't Necessarily Suck: The Rosetta Stone for 'Knowing Thy Enemy'

Pam Grout | Posted 04.30.2013 | Healthy Living
Pam Grout

When people start spouting unhappiness, inanities and misinformation, I know they're simply replaying old tapes and need my love more than ever.

Two Tails on the Road to Redemption

Rob White | Posted 04.21.2013 | Healthy Living
Rob White

I thought about how crazy off-based I was about Joe. And then I began to wonder: How many other people had I misjudged because of my preconceptions based on their outward image and demeanor?

Understanding Insecurity

Michael Neill | Posted 03.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Michael Neill

What follows is not a trick question: Would you rather feel exhilarated, grateful, humble, inspired, resolute, compassionate, and content -- or fearful, sad, worthless, jealous, angry, overwhelmed, and bored?

Living and Loving Your Life!

Maggie Lyon | Posted 03.10.2013 | Healthy Living
Maggie Lyon

I won't pretend to sit here and know exactly how you should go about seizing the day and loving your sparkling, precious life. Only you know what thrills and depresses you, and so much of this comes from tapping the seriously-wise voice inside.

The Problem-Solving Fast Track

Garret Kramer | Posted 02.12.2013 | Business
Garret Kramer

We live in a thought-created reality, not a circumstance-created reality. Therefore, it makes little sense to think more about a problem that is the result of too much thinking to begin with.

What Hurricane Sandy Can Teach Us About the Principle of Thought

Garret Kramer | Posted 01.13.2013 | Healthy Living
Garret Kramer

In the wake of Sandy, I've been reflecting on the relatively upbeat and supportive mood around here and what it can teach us: Specifically, these questions: How come we can't pull together like this all the time?

Sweating The Small Stuff? A Simple Practice To Cope With Life's Discomforts

Garret Kramer | Posted 01.01.2013 | Healthy Living
Garret Kramer

When you allow the self-regulating function of the mind to do its job, you uncover enduring and impactful answers -- and, at the same time, demonstrate to others the might of looking within.

How To Take Control Of Your Feelings

Garret Kramer | Posted 12.23.2012 | Healthy Living
Garret Kramer

The nature of your thinking (free and easy vs. bound up) creates your feelings. Your feelings create your mood. Your mood then perpetuates the nature of your thinking, forming a closed loop that is immune to the circumstances of the outside world.

Understanding Others: Part I

Amanda Gore | Posted 12.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Amanda Gore

Your mission for today is to focus on being present to every single conversation you have with every single person -- no matter how long it takes.

Sacred Ground: The Interfaith Triangle

Joshua Stanton | Posted 11.17.2012 | Religion
Joshua Stanton

The question truly at the heart of the book is how to encourage people en masse to go around the interfaith triangle in the right direction. The absence of movement could lead to indifference or even mutual suspicion.

God As Ordering Force Of The Universe

Joshua Stanton | Posted 11.09.2012 | Religion
Joshua Stanton

How and why would God speak to me personally when there might be infinite other creatures on infinite numbers of other planets likewise seeking connection to the Divine?

The Most Taboo Word in Our Vocabulary

Kimberly Berg | Posted 11.04.2012 | Healthy Living
Kimberly Berg

The word "need" is being disgraced from our vocabularies -- which to me is erasing the humane component out of humanity. If properly embraced, it's what makes us human.

Understanding: The Third Law of Spirit

Judith Johnson | Posted 08.29.2012 | Healthy Living
Judith Johnson

Things often don't make any kind of sense when we go through them, but later we can be filled with wonder at the perfection of what has happened and how meaningful it is to us.

Getting It

Waldo Mellon | Posted 08.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Waldo Mellon

Dear Waldo, It's 4 a.m. and I must admit to you that I am in a terrible way. I cannot sleep, and this is not like me. I'm 64, and my husband is thre...

Why This Atheist Still Needs His Former Pastor

Chris Stedman | Posted 05.01.2012 | Religion
Chris Stedman

If atheists and Christians started seeing one another as necessary partners in making the world a better place, what might we come to understand about each other? What might we come to better understand about ourselves? What might we accomplish together?

Daily Childcare Changes Fathers, Grandfathers Hormonally

The Women's Media Center | Posted 12.04.2011 | Fifty

The headlines were certainly eye-catching. "Fatherhood Depletes Testosterone" (Los Angeles Times), "Father's Testosterone Drops Steeply after Baby Arr...

The Hero vs. Villain Mentality

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 07.22.2011 | Religion
Sarah O'Leary

Why does peace scare us? Why do we want to tear down rather than create? We need to leave poor God out of this one. It's something we need to ask ourselves.

A Tribute To My Pluralist Father

Mike Ghouse | Posted 08.17.2011 | Religion
Mike Ghouse

Thank you Dad for inculcating the value of treating every human with full dignity, that is just one of the thousands of things you blessed me with. I love to see all of God's creation treated fairly and justly.

A Journey Into Interfaith Engagement

David Ford | Posted 06.02.2011 | Religion
David Ford

The global interfaith challenge we face requires institutional creativity, conversation, collaboration and thorough theological work and education, locally, nationally and internationally.

Civility: A Legacy Of Peace

Rachael Freed | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Rachael Freed

The legacy of civility, beyond our personal hopes for our families and loved ones, is imperative in our own country and the world.

Time for Understanding

Melanie Billings-Yun | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Melanie Billings-Yun

I am not a supporter of the Tea Party. On the contrary, I believe their anti-government , anti-spending platform is bad for the country. But just beca...