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Where Have All The Philosophers Gone?

Tom Morris | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Philosophy Departments, Insight, Publishing, Philosophy, Wisdom, Public Discourse, Colleges, Self-Improvement, Academia, Media, Universities, Self-Help, Living News
Tom Morris

Science pays off in technology and medicine. Where does contemporary philosophy pay off?

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A Meeting Of The Hearts: The Dalai Lama And The Thirteen Grandmothers

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 12.15.2009 | New York

Read More: The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama, Wisdom, Health, Donna Karan, Thirteen Grandmothers, Urban Zen, Healing, Prayer, Peace, The Inner Life, New York News
Alison Rose Levy

Many indigenous cultures have foretold a time when humanity, our future, and the earth itself were at stake. In a typical fairy tale, and in our hopes and dreams, "a hero" would come forth to save us.

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What Makes Us Wise II: The Defining Wisdom Project

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Dalai Lama, Wisdom, President Obama, Martin Luther King, University of Chicago, Julia Moulden, Winter Solstice, New Radicals, Nobel Peace Prize, Maya Angelou, Jfk, Templeton Foundation, Mandela, The Balanced Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

In order to create a field of wisdom science, we wanted to bring together all the interested parties - philosophers, classicists, historians, experts in law, medicine, psychology, biology.

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Love: Destiny Has Two Faces

Natasha Dern | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Living News, Wisdom, Spirituality, Relationships, Destiny, The Inner Life, Self Development, Living, Love, Living News
Natasha Dern

Why do we hand love over so easily to someone who may or may not deserve it? Why do we invest our love in people who do not value it? Is money more precious than love?

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What Lao Tzu And The Dalai Lama Would Say To Barack Obama

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Inner Life, Wisdom, Balanced Life, Media, The Inner Life, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

What happened to the Obama we saw in the run-up to the election? Where is that eloquent and passionate man now? He is deeply thoughtful and reflective, but his actions do not always reflect his words.

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Financial Lack: What Is Your Personal Net Worth?

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Money, Living News, Mind.Body.Soul, Wisdom, Spirituality, Abundance, Self Development, The Inner Life, Living, Success, Living News
Natasha Dern

Financial lack or hardships are a mirror of your unused potential. Rather than perceiving lack as a curse, begin to view it as a sign from the universe that more inner development is called for.

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Negativity: The Path Of The Unattractive

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Wisdom, Mind.Body.Soul, Living News, Self Realization, The Shadow, Living, The Inner Life, Self Development, Spirituality, Living News
Natasha Dern

In Jungian Psychology, your negative state of mind is referred to as 'The Shadow.' This aspect of yourself is why much of your life is the way it is. If not recognized it will create and attract harmful situations in life.

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The Nothing That Heals Us

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Connection, Wisdom, Emptiness, Transformation, Buddhism, Nothing, The Inner Life, Living News
Sharon Salzberg

In our human lives, experiencing this kind of profound emptiness means that like a candle flame gets blown out, our separateness and suffering are blown out.

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Popol Vuh, Mayan Prophecies and 2012 -- Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum Visits Denver to Speak Ancient Wisdom

Lys Anzia | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Wisdom, Youth, Human Rights, Humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize, Events, Film, Mayan Calendar, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 2012, Denver, Denver News
Lys Anzia

Menchú Tum’s journey has been haunted by a lifelong quest for peace for humanity and advocacy for the Maya with empowerment for all global indigenous people.

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What Our Kids Wish We Knew

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Joseph Chilton Pearce, Rudolf Steiner, Wisdom, Michael Mendizza, Our Role in Their Development, Vital Implications, Featured Contributor, Kids in the News, The Power of Listening, Parenting, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Our kids say the "most beautiful things, the most relevant things, the most useful things" in helping us return to the heart's wisdom. Our children have much they wish we knew.

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Feminine Power: Mystical Radiance Is What You Want

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Spirituality, Feminine Power, Mind.Body.Soul, Wisdom, Women, Self Development, The Inner Life, Self Realization, Happiness, Living News
Natasha Dern

In society, we are taught from a young age to grow up and be the perfect woman. We are expected to do it all and if we can't do it all, there is something wrong with us.

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Aging: Giving Up 'Giving Up'

Jim Selman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Habits, Aging, Fear, Wisdom, Relationship, Values, Retirement, Transformation, Freedom, Future, Prejudice, Resentment, Growing Older, Choice, Eldering, Happiness, Living News
Jim Selman

What if wisdom has more to do with 'giving up' our beliefs and attachments than 'getting' more insights or having 'more, better and different' of whatever we think is important?

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Pop Spirituality: Why Heaven And Earth Can Never Meet

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, New Age Spirituality, Esoteric, Religion, Mind.Body.Soul, Wisdom, Knowledge, Soul, Health, Ego, Body, New Age, Natasha Dern, Mind, Spirituality, Spiritual Practice, Living News
Natasha Dern

As more and more people mastered New Age terminology, frivolous concepts entered the marketplace -- becoming the opium of choice for escaping the realities of daily life.

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Only Truth Will Set Me Free

Isha Judd | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Isha, Lying, Living News, Wisdom, Consciousness, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Living News
Isha Judd

Lies are self-abandonment. They are a place where we avoid showing ourselves exactly as we are, and so ultimately they come from fear.

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Can We Afford NOT To Be Of Service?

Anne Naylor | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Wisdom, Rabindranath Tagore, Service, William Shakespeare, Buckminster Fuller, Self-Awareness, The Giving Life, Serving, Dr Paul Kaye, Mother Theresa, Dr John-Roger, Giving, Living News
Anne Naylor

We are designed for giving. When we do so, our lives come into a certain order, even and especially when things seem so chaotic and uncertain.

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Quick Wit in Politics

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cuba Travel Restrictions, Sam Farr, Wisdom, Humor, Wit, Cuba Travel Ban, Cuba, Us Cuba Trade Embargo, Politics News
Margarita Alarcon

If there is one thing Americans have to be very proud of is their wit. The fact that the American sense of humor knows no bounds is indisputably an ab...

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Mastery

Jim Selman | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Acceptance, Wisdom, Relationship, Commitment, Experience, Behavior, Mastery, Living News
Jim Selman

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that people are not broken and don't need to be fixed and, in fact, the more I try to fix them the more they (or I) will resist.

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One Vibrant Life

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Aging, Wisdom, Love, Dying, Death & Dying, Death, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I went to a memorial service yesterday for a friend's mother who died at 99. It was full of some 50+ people who knew this extraordinary woman - an ordinary mom who revealed the extraordinary in everyday life.

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Twisdom: Twitter Wisdom

Tom Morris | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Oprah Winfrey, Wisdom, Twitter, Tom Morris, News, Ashton Kutcher, Twisdom, Media News
Tom Morris

Wisdom crops up in a surprising way on Twitter. I call the phenomenon, "Twisdom."

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Chicago, Without Eddie

David Murray | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ed Reardon, Studs Terkel, Wisdom, Studs Terkel Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Old Chicago, Chicago News
David Murray

In the first conversation I had with Studs Terkel I mentioned I was friends with Ed Reardon. "How do you know Ed Reardon?" he demanded.

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What Makes Us Wise?

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Paul Simon, Oprah, Careers, Macarthur, New Radicals, Wise, Wisdom, Anne Lamott, Nobel, Julia Moulden, Wise Latina, Wise Owl, The Inner Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

Is thinking about wisdom part of getting older? Lately, I've been wondering what wisdom is. Here's how my dictionary defines it, "Understanding what...

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Learning to Die

Jim Selman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Examined Life, Wisdom, Astra Taylor, Dying, Dr. Judith Rich, Living, Socrates, Learning, Eldering, Living News
Jim Selman

Learning to die is really learning to live. It is 'letting go' of the past and the future and allowing ourselves to experience the serenity of just being alive.

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Ask Maddisen - How To Enjoy The Wisdom Of Your Inner Child

Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Ask Maddisen, Psychology, Therapy, Wisdom, Inner Child, Living News
Maddisen K. Krown

Speaking aloud in a loving voice, say "hi" to your inner child and let him know that you'd like to have a talk. Be still.

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When Do We Take Action?

Jim Selman | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Environment, Wisdom, The Economist, Aging Population, Eldering, Economy, David Korten, Living News
Jim Selman

According to The Economist's report on aging, one in three Americans will be over 60 in the next 11 years. The impact of this number of older people on public spending will be unprecedented.

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Words Of Wisdom: Which Quotes Inspire You?

Julia Moulden | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Charlotte Joko Beck, Quotes, Wendell Berry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Carlin, Wisdom, Apple, Margaret Mead, Peter Drucker, New Radicals, Eartha Kitt, Julia Child, Careers, Julia Moulden, Living News
Julia Moulden

For years, I've been collecting great quotes. They're words to live by. And they're invaluable to a speechwriter like me.

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