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Relating to the News: Are You a Spectator or a Player?

Jim Selman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Wisdom, Player, Spectator, Afghanistan, Crisis Du Jour, Right-vs.-Wrong, Middle East Crisis, Conflict, Suffering, Ego, Point of View, Middle East Mess, Living News
Jim Selman

I have become like so many of us -- a spectator watching war with about the same degree of engagement as I might watch a football game.

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Can Happiness Help You in Business? A Visit to Zappos

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Wisdom, Zappos, Tony Hsieh, Google, Business, Business Model, Employment, Las Vegas-Nevada, Business News
Soren Gordhamer

Zappos focuses on supporting individual expression and the internal happiness of each employee.

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Coming of Age: The Collaborative Generation

Jim Selman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Wisdom, Millenials, Wwii, Great Recession, Collaboration, Generation OMG, Generation Gap, U.S. Economy, Economic Recession, Economy, Economic Crisis, Recession, Living News
Jim Selman

Many young people are learning to be more flexible, to live more in the moment, and to be more creative and less "attached" to their plans than generations who grew up in other times.

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8 Ways To Find The Power Of Love In Fear

Anne Naylor | Posted 05.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Easter, Fear, Heart, Wisdom, Courage, Surrender, Faith, Understanding, Enthusiasm, Love, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, Donald Trump, The Inner Life, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Living News
Anne Naylor

As you embrace your fear with love, you can move beyond it into fresh insight. In your heart is the courage to know a way forward.

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Knowledge as Regurgitation: Thinking Skills as Wisdom

Robert Rose | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Regurgitation, Wisdom, Knowledge, Public Education, Thinking Skills, Internet, Teachers, Politics News
Robert Rose

How can we move from regurgitation of knowledge to thinking skills and wisdom? We can no longer just disseminate our knowledge of the past, but need to teach our students how to deal with the complex problems of the present and future.

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In Tenuous Times, Get Back To Basics

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 03.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Getting Back to Basics, Wisdom, Inflation, Mythology, Economic Crisis, Baby Boomers, Icarus, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Tenuous Times With the economy's Dominos Effect kicking in these days, most of us are feeling the pinch. Increasingly, we hear gloomy predictions o...

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The 3 A Formula: Simple Steps To Get Clear And Free

Anne Naylor | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Change, Wisdom, Relationships, Health, Freedom, Inner Life, Clarity, Spirituality, Acceptance, Awareness, 3 a Formula, Action, Living News
Anne Naylor

So what to do when you might be facing new and challenging circumstances, feeling possibly hopeless or helpless? The 3 A Formula is: Acceptance... Awareness... Action.

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Reality Check Amidst The Joy: Prepare for 2010 and 2012

Martin Lewis | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wisdom, 2012 Presidential Election, 2010, Sobering Thoughts, 2012 Election, 2010 Elections, Election 2012, Long-Term Planning, Thinking Ahead, HuffPost Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Barack Obama, Politics News
Martin Lewis

How do we build on this victory and ensure an enduring Democratic White House and Congress over the inevitable conservative fightback that they are plotting even as we celebrate?

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Maria Shriver's Gift to Women

Paige Donner | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Long Beach Convention Center, Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women, Wisdom, Special Olympics, We Invest, We Empower, Strength, Save the Children, Non-Profit, Bono, Madeline Albright, Maria Shriver, California Volunteers, The Women's Conference, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Women, Peace Corps., Non-Partisan, Safeway Inc., Cnn, Courage, Minerva Awards, Larry King, Condoleezza Rice, Jennifer Lopez, Lean Cuisine, We Care, Night at the Village, Warren Buffett, Sgt. Shriver, Living News
Paige Donner

"Be Who You Are" was the theme Maria Shriver designated for this year's California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women.

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Faith Versus Reason: How Can We Know if We're on the Right Track?

Joan Borysenko | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion, Wisdom, Sages, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Living News
Joan Borysenko

The fact is that there are no reliable maps into the still formless future when we're effectively at sea. But perhaps there is an inner compass that can help us navigate the unknown.

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Tune Into a New Channel

Stacey Lawson | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Meditation, The Inner Life, Knowlege, Wisdom, Enlightenment, Rationality, Living News
Stacey Lawson

My previous post explored a short aphorism from the Siva Sutras - "Knowledge is Bondage" - which warned that grasping for knowledge obscures true wisd...

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Why You Can't Handle the Truth

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Thoreau Quotes, Wisdom, Thoreau, Self-Awareness, Spirituality, The Inner Life, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

We have so many dimensions to 'who we are' that it takes more than one lifetime to discover them (by that I mean that our children, grandchildren, etc...

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Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rough Riders, Wisdom, Coast Guard Commencement, Gamechangers, Dick Cheney, Bush, Reagan, Beltway Bandits, Humility, Honesty, Lbj, Beauty, Hat, Valor, Cowboy, Horses, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

The Bush Gang was not the first to appropriate cowboy iconography for politics, but since they did, to be called a cowboy has, almost impossibly it seems to me, become some kind of slur.

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