- To live in radical joyous shared servanthood to unify humanity. The Earth is but ONE country and all the living beings its citizens.
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True Integrity As Fidelity To Truth
by Aisha Salem (May 3, 2013) In the turnover from the personal to the impersonal, the clear and truly loving, we face a definite turnover of our very understanding of what integrity is. In the exact same way as the definition of … Continue reading
To All Heart Warriors…
by Georgia Simone (Apr 19, 2013) The truth is, your heart is already and always free. The truth is, that as you rest your attention more and more into the love that you are, prior to all thoughts, emotions, and sensations – the … Continue reading
In The Hearts Of The Farm Workers
–by César Chávez (Apr 04, 2013) In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge nonviolence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation. [...] Dr. King’s entire life was an example of power that nonviolence brings to bear … Continue reading
Kindness and Rebellion
–by Sharon Salzberg (Mar 15, 2013) A friend of mine, at the end of a retreat, offered a provocative reflection that intrigued and inspired me. After looking intensively at her inner experience for nine days of meditation and seeing many of her … Continue reading
Enoughness & The Poetry of the Forest
–by Vandana Shiva (Feb 15, 2013) Today, at a time of multiple crises intensified by globalization, we need to move away from the paradigm of nature as dead matter. We need to move to an ecological paradigm, and for this, the best … Continue reading
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Love Your Opponents: You Don’t Need to Like Them
by Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan 18, 2013) There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who … Continue reading
Giving Somebody Your Heart
by Christopher Lowman (Jan 11, 2013) 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 … Continue reading
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Our Ecological Self: A Great Source Of Strength
by Joanna Macy (Dec 21, 2012) Rather than viewing our self as a fixed thing with characteristics that can’t be changed, we can think of ourselves as a flow of becoming. This perspective invites a greater sense of possibility. We participate … Continue reading
CourAge: The Age of the Heart
–by Julia Butterfly Hill (Oct 12, 2012) When you are facing fear, violence, oppression, or are overwhelmed, yet you manage to go forward with love anyway – that’s courage. Courage isn’t something we are magically given. It is a choice we make. Courage is something we can only … Continue reading
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