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LOVE 101: Conscious behaviour (B) = universal love (A) – life experience (C)

Contributing Writer·December 10, 2012
The truth for humanity as a whole is that we are made to express universal love through the human experience....
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MEMORY BOX: Write a different kind of love letter to spread kindness and sincerity

Alana Fiander·December 8, 2012
As a female, I find that I have not-so-subtly fallen into many patterns that are deemed “girlish” and sometimes completely...
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LOVE REVOLUTION: Occupy the body; Occupy the World

Robert Kopecky·December 4, 2012
“Oh, [you don’t know] the shape I’m in…”—Levon Helm This form our spirits inhabit, this ever-changing body/mind we occupy on Earth from...
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COMPASSIONATE CONSCIOUSNESS: Charles Eisenstein’s approach to realizing our spiritual nature through our physical experience

Robert Kopecky·November 27, 2012
In watching Charles Eisenstein’s kind-hearted and thought–provoking TED New Haven talk (I’m a fan), I was again struck by that...
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THE MULTIVERSE: Overcome smallness and expand with Love

Contributing Writer·November 26, 2012
Would it serve you to apply a contained explosion to your thinking? Breakthroughs with typical patterns of thought could be an important...
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STRAY: Love crosses all boundaries

Contributing Writer·November 15, 2012
I’d say it was love at first sight, but it was that kind of love of which none would ever...
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POEM BY JOY YAP: We Used to be Brave

Contributing Writer·November 14, 2012
When I am with you… I don’t get why my tongue gets tied sometimes How my throat gets bone dry...
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LOVE VS TRUTH: How the truth shall make you free

Jerry Kvasnicka·November 10, 2012
“What the world needs now, is love sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.” These...
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KIRTAN: Strengthen the heart connection through this path to the heart

Contributing Writer·October 9, 2012
The eternal flame of spirit dances within every one of us. But sometimes we forget. The demands and stresses that come with living in the 21st century can keep us ...
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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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POEMS BY AMANDA LEIGH ROGERS: This Just In, The Forest’s Ear

Contributor·July 25, 2012
This Just In Right now in my city the sky is pink and gold. Right now, clouds polish their wide sides on the late sun and blush...
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Street in Quito

POEM BY SHARON LEBENKOFF: Quito

Contributing Writer·July 24, 2012
As I walk the streets of Quito, I weave through mango peels and dogshit. I dream of love. And of white roses that never die. My head bowed, I avoid eye contact with sweaty men Who believe they have the God-given right...
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VISUAL POEMS BY LEILA FORTIER: Synchro-Destiny, This Moment, Universal

Contributor·July 18, 2012
~Gloveless Venture~ You Say I must Go out into the world~
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Rowboat

POEMS BY JOHN GREY: Skin, Kicking the nostalgia kick, Rowboat

John Grey·June 8, 2012
Skin is a bizarre conversation. / What's it matter that yours is smooth as butter / and hers is as wrinkled as a spoiled peach. / Of all the things to examine under the microscope, / why the mole, why the solitary hair, why the liver spot? / And yet you sit / discussing creams and solutions, / destructive wind, cruel central heating, / the gorgeous evil of the sun. / Your mother believes her death...
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LOVE IN-FORM-ATION: The power of Love in Being

Robert Kopecky·May 15, 2012
Here's a theory about our real power to change things, and how it relates to seeing Love in everything. We can semi-consciously bring the real things in our life into being through intention, and...
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Heart fence - intertwined love

WALK WITH AWARENESS: Our actions move us together or apart

Jane Olivier·April 12, 2012
Come. Walk with me. Weld yourself to me and together as one, with multiplied senses, let us invade opened fields. Ecology takes creation and breaks it into a study of each organism in its...
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A dove - Kahlil Gibran's parables of peace

PARABLES OF PEACE by Khalil Gibran

Contributing Writer·April 6, 2012
Three dogs were basking in the sun and conversing. The first dog said dreamily, "It is indeed wondrous to be living in this day of dogdom. Consider the ease with which we travel under the sea...
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POEMS by E. AGOSTINI: Patrick, May and Waiter

Contributing Writer·April 3, 2012
In my usual cycle of self-destruction / I was blaming myself for the current boy canceling our routine Sunday date / and had a bit too much to drink / trying to stop my brain from obsessing...
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A LETTER TO PAULINE: Because I Loved Her So

Contributing Writer·January 7, 2012
We have put together this dynamic anthology of poetry and prose expressing the profound love of Tom McFerran for his wife, Pauline who died ...
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SELF LOVE: Understanding true beauty

Contributing Writer·December 26, 2011
We are often exposed to beauty in the world. We see the beauty in flowers as we shuffle ourselves...
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POEMS by TOM McFERRAN

Jane Olivier·December 2, 2011
PAULINE, LOOK It is so strange, this my loving you when you aren’t here...
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HEALING THE INNER CHILD: Venturing into the territory of suffering

Contributing Writer·October 21, 2011
Dealing with suffering is like handling a poisonous snake. We have to learn about the snake, and we ourselves have to grow stronger and more stable in order to handle it without hurting...
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POEMS FROM ISSUE 3: Yoga, Becoming

Contributing Writer·January 17, 2010
A smile so bright Envelops me in light Reverberating my soul with its endless echo...
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