The Mindful Word is a collective of individuals committed to creating a culture of engaged living. The practice of mindfulness is the starting point for this cultural transition. Rather than exploring mindfulness in isolation, The Mindful Word aims to further integrate mindfulness in everyday life by exploring other aspects of engaged living such as the slow movement, permaculture and contemplative arts for the mindfulness characteristics they share.
The ever-changing nature of the world provides an opportunity for even the most negative seeds of war, injustice and environmental destruction to be transformed. However, our highly polarized society often does not allow for the open, compassionate dialogue necessary to transform these seeds. Rather than speaking out against others, The Mindful Word strives to speak out against injustice in an open, inclusive way.
We can choose to water positive seeds or be unaware and get overgrown by negative weeds. The Mindful Word is committed to being a forum to discuss those choices. As an exchange of ideas and a network of engaged citizens, The Mindful Word presents a community connection and acts as a foundation for the collective’s engaged spirituality action campaigns.
As society increasingly shifts to the digital domain, we feel the importance of preserving the personal connection. The way we do that at The Mindful Word is through the kind of articles we publish. Since some of the greatest wisdom comes from a person’s experience, most of what we publish are personal essays or have some personal element to them. So on that note, we invite you to contribute your creativity to the magazine or get involved by volunteering.
Launched in 2007 as both a short-run print magazine and website, The Mindful Word transitioned to a digital magazine and has since gone fully digital, publishing articles daily (the original print and quarterly digital magazine editions can be found here).
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Contributors
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