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- Dissolve Emotional Pain - Make it a Gift - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Cindy L. HerbHow many of you have trouble forgetting emotional pain? Perhaps you were upset with another or even, with yourself, for events that occurred in your life that were tragic. It is often hard to release the destructive emotions caused by others. There is a way to achieve freedom and change your ...
Views: 2786(2 votes) - What it Really Means to Be True to Yourself - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Gian Fiero |I have been curious about the concept of being "true to yourself" (i.e. honoring one's true self) for a while. It's a motto for some and an aspiration for others. This article will provide you with deeper (psychological and scientific) insight into the phenomenon and offer a broader ...
Views: 3546(2 votes) - How to Win Pakistan's Culture War - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com Authorsby Deepak Chopra and Salman Ahmad Pakistan is a war zone, but its battle is far more cultural than military. The whole country realizes this fact and is holding its breath, hoping that President Obama will come to the same realization. As long as the United States pursues the futile military ...
Views: 1030 - God's Dictionary: Reject - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsReject re- = back + -jacere = to throw I believe that rejection is the number one fear of the human species. The thing that boggles my mind is that if we’re so afraid of rejection, how is it that we’ve become so good at it? Especially since we don’t like having the experience? ...
Views: 713 - Spiritual Movie - Contact with Actress Jodie Foster - Science Proving We Are Not Alone - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2010 from Cindy L. HerbHave you ever seen the movie, Contact? It is one of my favorite movies, because not only has it a great, talented cast and fantastic visual effects, but also because it is a highly spiritual movie, demonstrating that we are not alone in the universe. From a spiritual standpoint, most of you ...
Views: 3578(2 votes) - 40 Days of Peace: 3 Suggestions for Starting Peace Now - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI was pleased to hear from Ode commenter Tim Collardey. He’s written a new ebook about peace called If Flowers Can Grow in Alaska... Creating a More Peaceful World One Person at a Time. His website is www.walkthepeace.com. His free ebook asks the seminal question of the spiritual life: do I ...
Views: 891 - The Power and Peace of Awareness - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2009 from ANDREW J SEUBERTAwareness, mindfulness and observing are words referring to the same experience. There is a profound difference between being immersed in white-water rapids, tumbling downstream, out of control, with all kinds of debris, and then spotting a tree branch hanging over the water, grabbing the ...
Views: 1611(1 vote) - President Obama, How About A Peace Dividend? - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat if the worst trouble spots in the world started turning a profit? Would that be a realistic approach to peace after so many other approaches have failed? An old idea along these lines is coming back to life, known as the peace dividend. In its most basic form it refers to the savings a ...
Views: 851(1 vote) - Emerging From the Grey: Ways We Numb Ourselves - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are born equipped to experience a complex array of diverse emotions. Many of us, however, are uncomfortable confronting our most powerful emotions. We may shy away from delight and despair and deny life's colors by retreating into a world of monotone grey. We may numb ourselves to what we are ...
Views: 951(2 votes) - My Prayer for the World...and especially for the citizens of Iraq, Zimbabwe and Darfur - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Craig LockAs a "quite spiritual", but not "religious type of person"*, I wrote this piece quickly some years back, which was inspired by and adapted from Marianne Williamson's Prayer for Kosovo (1999) http://marianne.com. So sharing a few thoughts, which may be of interest and freely published, ...
Views: 737(1 vote) - Beat Tough Times with Peace - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThese days, especially, it’s easy to get stressed out over our circumstances such as work we can’t find, gas and other necessities we can no longer afford, bills we can’t pay, a job we’re afraid we may lose or worse. But getting stressed out never helps. In fact, it usually hurts. Ironically the ...
Views: 721(1 vote) - Do You Ever Feel Small? - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2009 from Alan AHave you ever gone outside at night and looked up at the moon and stars and realized just how small you really are? It’s almost a feeling of insignificance but it’s not related to low self-esteem. This realization, this feeling of being small, immediately diminishes our self-importance leaving ...
Views: 1999(2 votes) - How to Avoid Hurt Feelings - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHas anyone ever said this to you: “Don’t be so sensitive. I was only kidding.” If so, did it change the way you felt? Chances are it didn’t because you had already taken the matter to heart,and it had already hurt your feelings. Needless to say, not every hurt feeling can be avoided, but some ...
Views: 2522 - Sacred Mountain: Protecting the Homes of Tribal People - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI am always in awe when I hear about documentary filmmakers who bravely dedicate their limited time and resources to raise awareness on an unknown cause or give voice to those who are silenced. Below are the words from an individual who worked directly with the film production team of the ...
Views: 722 - Bad Publicity? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThat notorious Broadway producer, David Merrick, was famous for many of his pithy sayings—a sort of Broadway Yogi Berra. My favorite is, “Darling, there’s no such thing as bad publicity except no publicity.” It may surprise you, but it was actually an interchange between the government of South ...
Views: 858 - Help free Aung San Suu Kyi for peace! - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBlessed Intent Family, I received this email from Avaaz today, and signed the petition. Won’t you join me to help free Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from her many years of house arrest? Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has spent 13 years ...
Views: 719 - It's in OUR Hands to Give Peace a Chance - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2009 from Craig LockArticle Title: It's in OUR Hands to Give Peace a Chance" Author: Phwaye Aye Shared (with permission) by: Craig Lock Category/Key Words: Peace, Possibilities for Peace, Inspiration, Phwaye Aye, Hope, Dream, Believe Other Articles are available at: ...
Views: 943(4 votes) - Living In A New Civilization of Peace - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2009 from Ilona HressImagine living in a world where you are free to explore the best in yourself and offer it to others. You have no concerns about where you will live or how you will live. Food, shelter, and transportation are free. Everywhere you go it is safe to travel and everyone you meet is interested in ...
Views: 1104 - Dalai Lama Banned from Attending South Africa Peace Conference - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAccording to news reports that came in last week, the Dalai Lama was denied a visa from the South Africa government to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg that would have been attended by five other Nobel Peace prize winners. Officials believed that banning the Dalai Lama would keep the ...
Views: 795 - Silence: The Digestive Power of Taking Some Time - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI find myself craving silence. Not just a moment of silence or the thought of silence or some time when I’m not talking, but the kind of silence that I can wrap myself in like a blanket. It’s the kind of silence that doesn’t involve going to a yoga class in a studio where a teacher provides ...
Views: 810 - A Touch of Evil - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Shifra HendrieThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -Albert Einstein Anyone who watches the news knows that there are some truly evil people in this world. There are also a very few, not so much on the ...
Views: 1232 - What the Captured American Journalists in North Korea Could Mean for Diplomacy - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFrom Deepak Chopra and Gotham Chopra We have been close friends with Laura Ling and her family for over a decade. So when we heard almost 3 weeks ago that Laura and her colleague Euna Lee, while reporting on a story on the North Korean-Chinese border, were arrested by North Korean officials, we ...
Views: 1245 - The Evolution of My Peace - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHow my quest for racial harmony led me to personal conviction, inner-healing and ultimately peace. I was tired—tired of race being such a factor in our lives. For as long as I could remember, I had looked around me and wondered why people of different races could not get along and yearned for ...
Views: 683 - A Child's Peace Poem - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThrough reviews of her lovely books, I have become email friends with one of our national treasures, Ruth Gendler. Part of the service she performs for humanity is in our schools. She brings her artistry into classrooms and inspires the talents and imaginations of our youth who, in my opinion, ...
Views: 1127 - 3 Tips to Achieving Inner Peace & Personal Growth - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2009 from Joan Marie WhelanWho says you can’t have it all? When you take the time to realize your human potential, you can truly manifest happiness and prosperity in all areas of your life -- and that, my friends, is how you discover inner peace. But in order to achieve inner peace in your life, you must first transform ...
Views: 1018 - Focus on the Things We Can Do to Eliminate Prejudice, Hate and Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2009 from Janie BehrPrejudice, discrimination, and scapegoating is alive and well in the 21st century. Marshall Wong, a hate-crime coordinator said, "anti-Semitic crime is still consistently among the top four groups targeted." Perhaps the most startling discovery is the reports of anti-Semitic schoolyard ...
Views: 3040 - Peace in Meditation - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2009 from Kinrei BassisBeing at peace is the heart of Buddhism. When I think about what I am trying to do in meditation, I am trying to view everything that arises as the Buddha; that nothing ever needs to be pushed away or grasped after. In my daily life, I am trying to bring a peaceful heart to whatever I ...
Views: 879 - The Dilemma of the "Good" Muslim - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEven before his inauguration, President Obama signaled a change of attitude toward Islam. He renounced the term "war on terror" and has never even flirted with another right-wing favorite, "clash of civilizations." Since taking office he has addressed the Islamic world with respect -- a key ...
Views: 1009 - Somalia, Piracy and Thoughts of Peace - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSo: the most recent Somali-pirate stand off was resolved by the skillful shooting of the US snipers. Today’s news lets us know that, meanwhile, three more ships have been seized by the pirates' brethren, while the US mission to Somalia actually came under mortar fire as their plane left ...
Views: 676 - Phil Spector - A Sad Tale - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMusic legend Phil Spector was convicted yesterday of murder - as you may know - when what is said to have been a game of Russian Roulette (how did that ever become a ‘game’?) claimed a woman’s life. She was the sixth such woman that we know of on whom Spector inflicted this behavior over a ...
Views: 868 - Why Islam Needs an Apology - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat's your reaction to President Obama's recent statements to the Muslim world that "the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam" and that "we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation"? Enough Americans feel bad about the Iraq war that they didn't become upset over ...
Views: 795 - The Problems of Guns and Violence - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI used to be a competitive rifle shooter for my University in England. I have several Oxford ‘Blues’ as a result, and was the captain of several teams. We'd shoot at paper targets, nothing else. And that’s why I feel I can say something about guns now. A newsletter I received today stated that ...
Views: 920 - Exercises To Discover The Meaning Of Your Life - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2012 from Brenda ShoshannaWhat are these empty hands? Where can we find them? What ... When Dogen, a great Zen Master of old, returned to Japan after many years of studying Zen in China, the people asked what he brought with him to help others who were suffering, he said, “I’ve come with nothing but empty ...
Views: 9688 - The Taliban Within - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAlmost every day we come across some news or another about the atrocities of the Talibans in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Most of us have been viewing this issue as some incomprehensible disease in a remote and perennially troubled part of the world. The truth is, as we have all come to learn ...
Views: 1031 - Who's Peacing Who? - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI loved this photograph I found on a blog called One Million Peace Signs. The commentary asks, “Who’s peacing who?” Reflections of peace in two mirrors, and one of the reflectors is also the photographer! Peace, my friend, often requires reflection, a luxury for many of us whose lives are too ...
Views: 805 - Neurobiology of Human Error - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2009 from Albert GaroliImagine a world free from wars, deception, unjust laws, corruption, pollution, artificial radiation, mass hypnosis, poverty and starvation. Imagine a world where human beings are integrated with nature and live a free, real and healthy eco-sustainable life. This has been and will be a dim ...
Views: 1662(7 votes) - You Can Help Roxanne Saberi, Euna Lee, and Laura Ling - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSeveral years ago when I was detained by officials while trying to pass through immigration on the way out of a certain “rogue nation,” and kept in a holding cell while the officials tried to determine what to do with me, I alternatively freaked out, tried to reflect on the lessons I could learn ...
Views: 1021 - Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Remarkable Strength (and Success) of the Survivors - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNine million Jews lived in Europe in 1939 as World War II erupted. By 1945, six million had been slaughtered. In the most basic arithmetic, three million European Jews managed to escape the Nazi Final Solution. They fled. They hid. They resisted. The survival rate varied greatly from nation to ...
Views: 2218 - Inner Peace Activist: What's Your Cause? - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDo you read the ezine Greater Good? The issue that arrived in my inbox last week had two titles that intrigued me: “Why is there Peace?” and “You talkin’ to me?” Of course, I eagerly clicked on things till the first article came up. My reading slowed as I understood the topic. Same for the ...
Views: 899 - Somali Pirates in a Compassionate World - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDoes the young Somali pirate brought to trial in the U.S. create the perfect moment for the world community to take a deeper look at its own conscious? If reports from Somalia are true that its coastal waters have been used as a dumping ground for toxic and nuclear wastes, and its fisheries ...
Views: 1024 - Motivating the Village to Protect the Children - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2009 from Lisa SiegleChild abuse is a painful reality, but one that is preventable. As caring, thinking adults, we could have a profound impact on the lives of vulnerable children if each and every one of us reached out to other adults and inspired them to help protect kids. As a community, we can make a difference ...
Views: 1728(3 votes) - Inner Peace Has No Opposite - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHas it ever happened for you that you’ve picked up a book, usually a highly recommended one, read it and disliked it? It’s rare for me. Such was my first response to Eckhart Tolle’s original offering, The Power of Now. More than five years have elapsed since then and since I loved his second ...
Views: 1381 - Our Only True Happiness is Peace - by Submitted on May 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSuccess, achievement and material possessions produce fleeting moments of euphoria: we celebrate and invite friends to see our new home or car and are happy when we wear new clothes for the first time. Luxury, comfort and riches, however, are not the ingredients of true happiness. They give ...
Views: 1131 - Barack Obama's First 100 Days - For the Muslim World - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsTo the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” When President Barack Obama said that during his January 2009 presidential inaugural address, he sent a clear message to the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims. A few weeks ago in Ankara, he fulfilled his ...
Views: 1050(1 vote) - The Toxic Residue of Torture - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt seems clear that the question of torture won't go away. It would be easier to talk about moving ahead. Images of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo belong in nightmares. As a physician, my personal nightmare is of the doctors who stood by during torture sessions to monitor the victim's vital signs. ...
Views: 1204 - Dear Iran: Free Roxana Saberi (Now) - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsTo the 65.8 million wonderful people of Iran, As an American Muslim human rights lawyer, I write to you today to kindly ask for the immediate release of American journalist Roxana Saberi. In order to continue the advancement of peaceful dialogue between our two nations, it is an absolute moral ...
Views: 1010 - Peace and Collaborative Development Network - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHere’s quite a
Views: 975 - Presence First - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2009 from Kidest OMEntangled with the surface movements of the mind, you think that you are subject to the pendulum swing of contrasts, the negative and positive of this reality. Entangled in this ever-changing mental movement you believe and so conceive of life as a bi-polar roller-coaster ride. But this simply ...
Views: 1280(1 vote) - The Road to Global Peace - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2009 from Craig LockIn the light of the current state of the world (and after the assassination of Benadir Bhutto) here are a few personal thoughts that may be of interest, based on the "rather miraculous" transformation of South Africa. From one time "pariah" apartheid state wracked by violence and conflict... to ...
Views: 1012 - ***Being Still and Silent - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Karen Mehringer, MARecently, I found myself feeling anxious and depressed. For several days, I attempted to analyze why I was feeling this way and what I could do to feel better. I questioned, “Would it help to go back to therapy or to get a massage? Maybe I just need to write more.” Feeling uncomfortable, I ...
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