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    HANAMI DREAMING: The start of spring in Japan

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POEM BY JOHN PTACEK: I Erupt

Contributing Writer·July 20, 2013
I Erupt It’s so quiet… The machinery of the universe is so quiet I forget it’s there. When I lean...
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REBOOT YOUR LIFE: How to make a new habit permanent

Contributing Writer·June 7, 2013
Rebooting your life is a gift to yourself.  It reconnects you with your spirit, the wisdom and joy that lives in...
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PLAY AGAIN: Life lessons in a game of Solitaire

Jane Olivier·May 28, 2013
After a long day of writing, researching and corresponding, there are often times I simply cannot turn off my mind...
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CUTE LIFE QUOTES: 37 sweet thoughts about life to brighten your day

Contributing Writer·April 24, 2013
Updated: March 6, 2019 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill If you...
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THOUGHTFUL QUOTES: A collection of 30 top quotes by some of history’s greatest thinkers

Contributing Writer·April 14, 2013
This collection of 30 thoughtful quotes contains thoughtful sayings and aphorisms from some of history’s greatest thinkers and authors like...
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UNCOMMON QUESTIONS: A poem by Mercedes O’Leary

Contributing Writer·March 12, 2013
How could we make flames from handfuls of clear sky? What could we do but stand still and pray for...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Valuing your life income—minimizing spending [Step 6]

Contributing Writer·March 8, 2013
[Read Step 5 of the Simple Living Guide. Go to Step 1] The previous step asked us to create a...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Where is it all going? [Step 3]

Contributing Writer·February 25, 2013
[Read Step 2 of the Simple Living Guide] The most important point to remember from the previous step is that...
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SIMPLE LIVING GUIDE: Making peace with the past [Step 1]

Contributing Writer·February 15, 2013
In seven years I managed to transform my financial life to the point where I stopped working for money. Using...
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POEMS BY MARK W. NETTLES: Another Statistic; Death Springs To Life; Healthy Tum, Happy We (Exodus 23:11)

Contributing Writer·January 31, 2013
Another Statistic Let us be living intentional samples of a random population committing crimes against central tendency in the name...
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HEALING WITH GRACE: It’s all about attitude

Contributing Writer·January 23, 2013
I had been forced into a recurring conversation with myself—an uncomfortable confrontation I wanted to ignore. “Why are you surprised?...
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FRIEND OR ACQUAINTANCE: When to stick by a friend and when to let go

Alana Fiander·December 30, 2012
I collect friends like some girls collect fancy shoes. There’s nothing more exciting to me than meeting someone with some...
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ALL YOU NEED IS: Love, a hug and the Eightfold Path

Robert Kopecky·December 29, 2012
“My religion is Kindness”—The Dalai Lama “My religion is Love.”—Amma Everyone’s heard of The Dalai Lama, but have you ever...
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REALITY UNCONFINED: Engage the world as children do

Wanda Monague·December 23, 2012
Next time you’re in a park or playground, watch kids as they scream and chase one another, laughing loudly as...
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THE INCIDENT: Student activism and the need to speak out

Max Reif·December 22, 2012
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
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HOW TO RAISE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS: 20 ways to become more conscious [part 1]

Contributing Writer·December 15, 2012
1. Connect with nature – Go for a walk in the forest, jungle, field of daisies, or wherever you feel like...
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THE SUMMONS: Lessons for everyday life

Catina Noble·December 3, 2012
Life is filled with moments that are good, bad, ugly, pretty, heart-wrenching, Hollywood style, and moments that cannot be described....
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EVER AWARE: Learn from the little things in Nature

Wanda Monague·November 30, 2012
Standing upon a darkening craggy shoreline, a researcher hauls in his net and deposits its contents into a nearby bucket...
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THE MOUNTAIN AND THE VALLEY: A reality bigger than the dream

Contributing Writer·November 21, 2012
The young man looked upward; he was not even halfway up the mountain. He groaned. He had already spent a...
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FOUR POEMS BY SUMMER FANOUS: Minus Negative, Pow-Pow, Evolve, and His Story

Contributor·September 30, 2012
I have been hurt by those who are closest to me blood, family I have tried to identify what I did for them to hate me sleepless nights lost thinking about those who couldn't care less about me dreams interrupted by visions of my family the same people who were supposed to protect me, respect me all they did was...
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GROWING PAINS: 12 tough truths to accept as you grow up

Contributing Writer·September 22, 2012
As you look back on your life, you will often realize that many of the times you thought you were being rejected from something good, you were in fact being redirected to...
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KOAN ON THE GREAT WAY: How open are you to the total, unfettered experience of this life?

Contributing Writer·July 26, 2012
Sengcan, an old master once said, “The great Way is not difficult if you just don’t pick and choose.” The open mind is one that is like a metaphorical sky—vast to the point of...
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LOOK AGAIN: Compassion is essential, even when it hurts

Jane Olivier·May 25, 2012
Compassion leaves the most visible and ineradicable scars on the hearts of those that remove the covers from their eyes. In almost every country, travellers go around with blinders on. The norm...
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The flow

Kiva Bottero·July 19, 2009
An adult heart pumps up to 2000 gallons of blood throughout our body every day, without any need for conscious thought. The flow of life is much like blood being pumped throughout our body...
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