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Please Call Me by My True Names

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慈悲: Kindness that bestows happiness and compassion that alleviates suffering. —Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,learning to sing in my new nest,to…
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An Antidote for Too Much Thinking: Breathing Exercises

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(Extrapolated from the Sitting Dhyana Samadhi Sutra) For beginners, focus on counting your breaths from one to ten. For more advanced practitioners, follow the breaths and count from one to ten, but stop thinking when breathing pauses. For the most advanced practitioners, count while pausing and contemplating; the practice becomes…
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An Antidote for Hatred: Kindness

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(Extrapolated from the Sitting Dhyana Samadhi Sutra) For beginners, start by being kind to those you care about. Make the wishes of your dearly beloved come true. Make them happy physically, psychically and spiritually by providing them with material gifts, for example. Practitioners focus on kind thoughts without veering. For…
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

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Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries? . . . You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air,…
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The Sacred Feminine

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A Compelling Call to Peace on Earth The knowledge we need for harmony among the world’s religions and spiritual communities lies in the wisdom of the feminine. The sacred feminine is always attuned to the oneness, the interconnected wholeness of life. A world that is not connected to its soul…
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Peace Momentos from the Parliament of World’s Religions

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Is Peace Possible? War, strife, deaths. The cause of so much of the woes in our world is too often religion. Those who promise heavenly peace unfortunately become the very ones who prevent peace on earth. Peace seems impossible. However, we can help to lengthen the moments of peace and…
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Activate Compassion with Karen Armstrong

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This Friday, December 18th, Karen Armstrong will host a one hour Facebook conversation on compassionate action. Join her at 6pm GMT (1pm EST/10am PST) on the discussion boards and click the link titled “LIVE DISCUSSION WITH KAREN ARMSTRONG 12/18”.Focusing on the calls to action in the Charter (posted below), participants…
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What the Vision Does

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What the Vision Doesby Peter Senge [Listen to Audio! New!] If your deeper intention is an inseparable part of how you are, it is not capable of attachment. You can seek to accomplish your intention. You live out your intention. It is like the wind, the life force from which…
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