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Make Your Life Into a Giving
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
by Jaggi Vasudeva Make your life into a giving. When I say a giving, it is not to be understood as an act. Giving as an act is a deception because, after all, what can you give? Everything that we have, including this body, we have taken from this planet. What we can give is [...]
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The Gift of Smelling the Roses, or Stopping to See the River
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Everyday Creativity by Ruth Richards I’m rather good at maps. I’m also good at using a GPS device. But I forgot the maps and here we were, late afternoon, last day of vacation, my daughter my cousin and I, driving along a two-lane highway in midstate Oregon. No other car in sight, and the sun [...]
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The Heart as Gift
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Giving Somebody Your Heart by Christopher Lowman In every interaction you have with another human being—doesn’t matter who—you always have two main choices. (The keyword is choice.) One choice usually leads to logical (boring) interaction, politeness, formalities. And, more importantly, a lack of connectivity. The other usually leads to interesting discussion, love (yes, love), aliveness, friendship, gift [...]
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I Am Nothing – allowing our inner gifts
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
by Paul Buchheit What will you do if you’re too tough to be a good woman, too sensitive to be a good man, too selfish to be a good husband, too lazy to be a good employee, too shy to be a good friend, too caring to be rational, too fat to be pretty, too [...]
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Sacred Giving and Receiving
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
–by Joseph Bruchac , Parabola In the old days, no one ever stole. Those who were well off always shared what they had. If there was any thing someone wanted, that person had only to ask the owner and that thing would be given. And no one minded if someone borrowed something and then brought [...]
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The Mystery of Love — Love as the Gift That It Is
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
by Kent Nerburn Remember that you don’t choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away. Give it back to the person who brought it alive [...]
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Getting What You Give
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
“For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need [...]
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Kissing and energetic medicine
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Many of us were raised in families where emergency medical treatment of minor childhood cuts and abrasions were treated with iodine, a Band-Aid and a hug. If you fell off your tricycle and scraped your knee, then your pain, tears and fears were soothed by the attending adult or teenaged baby sitter who would often [...]
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Full Effort is Full Victory
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
by Eknath Eswaran Gandhi wanted so deeply to help the world that he dedicated his life to siphoning every trace of self-interest out of his heart and mind, leaving them pure, radiantly healthy, and free to love. It took him nearly twenty years to gain such control of his thinking process, but with every day [...]
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Community Connections
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
“It’s only since I’ve been walking everywhere that I noticed the “grot spots” and dangerous locations in my town. Safe and snug from my car, I hardly noticed what life was like for the more vulnerable pedestrian. Speaking to local residents I came to realize that other foot-traveling folk had the same concerns about litter, [...]
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