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    MIND THE GAP: Mindfulness as the practice of living in one piece

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    RECLAIM YOUR TIME THROUGH PRESENCE: 5 research-backed ways to do so

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    POEMS BY JIM JOHNSTON: For Larry, Tracks and more

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    MINDFUL LEADERSHIP IN STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: Empowering leaders to create positive change

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    HANAMI DREAMING: The start of spring in Japan

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    REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S POLITICAL REALITIES: We can prevail over ignorance, lies and Trump

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    Hands against background of a heart - Travelling With Intention: Why Is It So Important?

    NATIONAL VOLUNTEER MONTH: Moving through the world with intention

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    IMPEDIMENTS FACED: A safe return home from La Paz, Mexico

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    TYING UP LOOSE ENDS: One last—and glorious—day in La Paz, Mexico [Part 7]

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GRIEF TRAIN: My father’s death taught me about love and letting go

Contributing Writer·June 6, 2018
My father passed away just before noon on October 30, 2017. He’d been diagnosed with cancer 18 months earlier. I...
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Washburn, Illinois tornado - Poems by Max Reif

POEMS BY MAX REIF: With Trump It’s Come to This, Morning Ablutions, Domestic Revelation

Max Reif·March 23, 2018
With Trump, It’s Come to This When the President’s mind is a maelstrom, an abyss, a sinkhole into which he...
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TRY OUT YOUR ANGEL EYES: Adopting an angel’s perspective will help you exercise compassion

Robert Kopecky·March 22, 2018
[su_panel background=”#fdf0c6″ color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”] The follpwing article has been excerpted from How to Get to...
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WALK IN BEAUTY: 4 tools that’ll help you gracefully navigate everyday life

Contributing Writer·March 6, 2018
We’re not here to be perfect enlightened beings, we’re here to experience. Fear, grief, pain, joy, love—the ebbs and flows...
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FROM ANXIETY TO LOVE: Disconnect from your ego and connect with your Inner Therapist

Contributor·February 22, 2018
[su_panel background=”#fdf0c6″ color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”] Publisher’s note Author Corinne Zupko, a licensed counsellor and Mindfulness-Based...
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HOW TO BECOME UNCONDITIONALLY LOVING: And is this even possible for us?

Mike Larcombe·January 25, 2018
The mind’s idea of an unconditional loving self Within the mind, the idea of an unconditionally loving self is an...
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POEMS BY SHAUN PAYNE: Patience, Potential, Layers, Grace, Rebirth

Contributor·January 23, 2018
Patience I’ve heard God can be seen in the details. The flowing glow of the rings of a tree, like...
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TURN RETIREMENT INTO RENEWAL: 5 key pieces of advice for the senior man

Contributing Writer·January 18, 2018
Retirement today is a far different reality than what it was decades ago. In the era of the company man,...
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LOVE WARRIOR: A Memoir [book review]

Max Reif·January 14, 2018
LOVE WARRIOR: A Memoir Glennon Doyle [Flatiron Books, 304 pages] Glennon Doyle is a popular motivational speaker, partly because of...
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Girl making shadow of heart with hands on wooden wall - Living with intention

LIVE WITH INTENTION: Answer your heart’s wake-up calls with more love and less fear

Contributor·January 5, 2018
The funny thing about wake-up calls is that they keep calling until we answer. Each call gets louder and louder....
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CHAKRA TO CHAKRA: The 7 levels of an energetically committed partnership

Contributing Writer·December 20, 2017
Relationships are amazing opportunities to meet Spirit face-to-face, and to refine ourselves even more than we’re able to on our...
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THE STORIES WE’RE LIVING: Perseverance and transformation within a marriage

Max Reif·December 17, 2017
“The greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble.  They can never be solved but only outgrown.” –...
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THE MYTH OF ROMANCE: Are we too reliant on the Western ideal of passion?

Contributor·November 27, 2017
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”] Publisher’s note Every adult wants to live a version of...
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Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau and Michelle Obama laugh together as other politicians stand by - Love and the world

LOVE AND THE WORLD: How compassion and trust can impact international politics

Contributor·November 22, 2017
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”] Publisher’s note Who better than a cardiologist to unpack the...
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I AM BISEXUAL: A letter to my ex-girlfriend about what I could never fully say

Contributing Writer·November 19, 2017
When I was eight or nine years old, I remember having a vivid dream that had an unforgettable effect on...
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THE FORTUNATE SON: A memoir of my loving adoptive parents

Contributor·June 14, 2017
Evening falls on the glow of late afternoon. The wind outside the nursing home winnows through the trees, reflecting the...
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WHAT MY GRANDMOTHER TAUGHT ME: Love is learning how to be with others

Ji Strangeway·June 5, 2017
My Vietnamese grandmother (Bà ngoai) passed away a couple of weeks ago, on May 20th, to be exact. She was...
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Heart-shaped cloud in blue sky - Poetry by Woven Green

POETRY BY WOVEN GREEN: Lift it Up, Turning of the Tides, The Call, Victorious Smile, Breaking Free

Contributor·May 14, 2017
Lift it Up I dreamed I saw the world from high above Aboard a ship of stars on a cosmic...
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BHAKTI AND THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK: How music and spirituality are connected by Love

Max Reif·May 8, 2017
Musical beginnings When I was a boy, my idea of great music and literature was South Pacific and the other...
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Snow angel - Poems by John Grey

POEMS BY JOHN GREY: Children in Snow, Biology, Living Alone

John Grey·April 29, 2017
Children in Snow The sky is hidden behind clouds. Mounds of snow swallow the land. On lips, the taste of...
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Hand holding raspberries from bush - My walk with God

MY WALK WITH GOD: Finding peace and spiritual fulfillment in nature

Contributor·March 19, 2017
Much-needed peace and quiet I’ve always felt the most content when outdoors and in the wilderness. Growing up in a...
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Old wooden door with small heart cut in it - The meaning of compassion

THE MEANING OF COMPASSION: Opening the heart’s doors to forgiveness and love

Josh Jones·March 11, 2017
I’ve struggled, for a long time, with what compassion truly means. I can easily read the definition in the dictionary,...
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PSYCHOLOGICAL & SPIRITUAL THERAPY: Love can’t exist without suffering

Jack Surguy·February 15, 2017
[su_panel background=”#d5c38b” color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]In our weekly Psychological & Spiritual Therapy column, therapist Jack Surguy...
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THE DEEPEST WOUND: Genuine love without judgment can heal residual childhood pain

Mike Larcombe·December 3, 2016
The Deepest Wound 1. The deepest wound. My wound, your wound, Was the first, the most cutting, The damage done,...
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