Category Archives: satyagraha

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

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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

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Micro Moments of Love

by Barbara Frederickson (Apr 12, 2013) It’s time to upgrade our view of love. First and foremost, love is an emotion, a momentary state that arises to infuse your mind and body alike. Love, like all emotions, surfaces like a distinct … Continue reading

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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

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The Insanity of Being Perfectly “Sane”

  –by Thomas Merton (Mar 29, 2013) One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Otto Adolf Eichmann trial –a Nazi lieutenant colonel who, because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, was given the task of facilitating and managing … Continue reading

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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

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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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Action to Heal the Nuclear Madness

Art piece by brother Chris Jordan –watch the TED talk about his ARTivism. ‘Unsinkable’ depicts 67,000 mushroom clouds, equal to the number of metric tons of ultra-radioactive uranium/plutonium waste being stored in temporary pools at the 104 nuclear power plants across the [part of the Planet we … Continue reading

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Intergenerational Justice & Responsible Caring

by Kathleen Dean Moore  (Dec 28, 2012) Our generation is witnessing the end of the old era and the start of a new one, when human culture will determine the future of the Earth. Theologian Thomas Berry said, “My generation has … Continue reading

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What Did You Do Once You Knew?

by Drew Dellinger  (Nov 30, 2012) It’s 3:23 in the morning and I’m awake because my great great grandchildren won’t let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the Planet was plundered? what … Continue reading

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