Communities

Communities

Community Celebrations and Dancing in the Streets

Community Celebrations and Dancing in the Streetsby Cecile Andrews. Why is joy so important? Because to inspire people to bring about change — to work to create a culture of caring — we need the strongest, most motivating emotion there is, and joy is the ultimate experience of happiness, the essential desire of our lives. On a personal level we're isolated and...

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The Culmination of 2012: What It Can Mean to Your Life

The Culmination of 2012: What It Can Mean to Your Life

by Galexis (Ginger Metraux, Ph.D.) Those of you reading this are part of a great spiritual movement, sometimes known as the "Great Shift." While your personal mission is to know yourself, your global mission is to help birth a New World here on this planet. You are doing that in your own unique way...

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The Family of One: The Next Step for Humanity

The Family of One: The Next Step for Humanityby Tony Burroughs. The Family of One is gaining momentum every day even though we may not hear anything about it in the mainstream media. The Family of One. Think about it. And when you do, doesn't it resonate?

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A Revolution of Angels

Spot of Grace by Dawna MarkovaIt's time to ignite a small revolution, a revolution of angels carrying stories to balance the darkness. How do you ignite a revolution? It's not really such a big deal. Revolution means a turning -- turning around, turning over, turning toward...

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Attaining Soulmate Partnership

Shirley Knapp

Nanette McLane

The issue of soul partnership seems to be in the heart. As you understand more about the energy of soul partnership in you, there will be less and less of aloneness and separateness.

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Cultivating the Feminine Gift

Sharron RoseAs the pressures of our modern world lead us away from fundamental spiritual values such as truth, love, and receptivity into those of deception, fear, and domination, it is extremely important to look at the part that we, as women, play in this unfolding of the human drama...

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Harmony Ethic

  The Harmony Ethic is a system based upon caring for fellow human beings through the expression of deep respect and kindness. To the Cherokee, a person has just as much choice in creating harmony as he or she does in creating disharmony and social disruption.

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Sharing Wisdom

Time Happens by H. Samm Coombs.

If there is a reward for longevity, it is paid out in the form of wisdom, a quality of consciousness that has little to do with intelligence/I.Q. or book learning. Being a by-product of experience, wisdom more often is possessed by men and women who have survived fifty or more winters.

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Compassion Is In Exile

Matthew Fox

by Matthew Fox. Compassion is the world's richest energy source. And yet, in human history of late, compassion remains an energy source that goes largely unexplored, untapped, and unwanted. Compassion appears very far away and almost in exile...

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A Romantic Manifesto

Mario KamenetzkyI find satisfaction in the pursuit of love, and a life that gives full expression to the powers of my mind and my body, while keeping open, uncensored, and unmediated lines of communication with the spirit that dwells inside me. . . to work in partnership with the creator in further improving human love and life

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Developing the Wisdom of the Heart

Phil Lane Jr. A wise elder once told me, "Grandson, the longest road you will ever have to walk is the sacred journey from your head to your heart." Another elder said, "We will never solve the many critical and life-threatening issues before us solely through the intellect; for every problem the intellect solves it creates ten more."

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An Open Letter To the Entire Human Family

An Open Letter To the Entire Human Familyby Avatar Adi Da (Da Free John). This is the moment of truth for humankind. Critical choices must now be made in order to protect the continued existence of human society and the earth itself. This letter is not a political appeal, although the message in it certainly extends to...

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Elements of Personality

Trish Telesco Science delineates animals by their predominant habitat. Aquatic creatures live in the water, for example. Since human beings live on the land, we might be regarded as Terrestrial. Yet, despite our intimate connection to earth, every person I have ever met has one key element to which...

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Living Love

In these days of all the concerns we have facing our global society, ranging from pollution of all sorts to bloodshed through wars and human rights violations, we must look at the underlying cause for what is happening -- the lack of love. We, as a collective consciousness, are beginning to look more at our inner Selves, and in this action we are finding a heart that has become cold and unfulfilled, in need of the warmth that only love can provide.

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A Most Powerful Prayer

A Most Powerful Prayer, article by Alan Cohenby Alan Cohen.

We live from our heart or we do not live at all. Here is a benchmark by which you can assess the quality of your actions and make important decisions: What is your intention? If you truly seek to serve and give love, you cannot fail.

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Choosing to Become a Wise Elder

Choosing to Become a Wise Elderby Denise Linn. When people lived in small communities and villages, they often felt a sense of connection to the past. There was incredible strength to be derived from living in a world where one didn't feel alone. There was power in knowing that, in addition to...

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by Marie T. Russell. Judgment plays a big part in our lives, so much that we are not even aware most of the time that we are judging. If you didn't think that something was bad, it wouldn't upset you. If you didn't think that something was good, you wouldn't feel any loss when it was absent... Read More...
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by Nicki Scully. In November of 2005, Acacia was hospitalized and diagnosed with recurrent lymphoma, in her brain, central nervous system, liver, and left kidney. It was clear that they would be unable to “fix” her. We decided to see what it would take to get her to Thailand for the memorial we were planning for Luke... Read More...
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by Deborah Niemann. Many people think that making the green choice is more expensive. Although this can be true, it doesn't have to be. Are you ready to save money, get healthier, and stop sending so much trash to the landfill? You can get started wherever you are living. The important thing is to get started... Read More...
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by Jack Angelo. Life is about change. Our breathing undergoes changes according to the rhythms of our state of imbalance (another reason to remain mindful of our breath). Specific breathing exercises can work on the causes of our stress, illness, unhappiness, or discontent in order to restore balance in... Read More...
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