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Day at the Beach
Nightphoenix
Loved my day at the beach. From the sand to the ocean it was a day of release & reenergizing. Something about the ocean being symbolic of the shared unity in all things. It's the oceans... More »
“The Cosmic Laws Of Cosmic Awareness".
Jeff
“The Cosmic Laws Of Cosmic Awareness” Each and every one of us has access to this Awareness, wherein we move deep enough... More »
Forgiveness
Amazume
A fellow GoddS asked me to share of my experience on the topic of forgiveness. Before I dive in, first some things that come to mind: from gaia.com, this quote stood out: The day... More »
toward a Worldwide Culture of Love....
hrtScholar
By bell hooks The practice of love, says bell hooks, is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination. She traces her thirty-year meditation on love, power, and Buddhism, and concludes it is only... More »
About Human Life
inlink
Disillusioned with life, I decided to start over when I was forty-nine, first by going to sea. I bought a live-aboard sailboat from a North Palm Beach, Florida boatbuilder. I was tied up behind the... More »
Notes from a BackJack
Karen
It occurred to me recently that personal transformation has become a pretty popular enterprise. Teachers, books, techniques, and workshops abound. Okay, I admit the reason I've come to this conclusion is that I plan to... More »
Lively Communion: invoking mutual meditative exploration
Rich Murray
Lively Communion: invoking mutual meditative exploration Rich Murray Room For All rmforall@comcast.net 505-501-2298 1943 Otowi Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/messages/1 Lively Communion: Invoking Mutual Meditative Exploration 1. INTRODUCTION: We now... More »
LANGUAGE IS A DEMIGOD
Peace
Title, of course, is from a Ken Wilber statement, in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality , I think. If 70% of humanity is at magic-mythic, or in the purple-red-amber zone, I think it's fruitful to recall Jean... More »
Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh
hrtScholar
As teacher and guide Thich Nhat Hanh has been a presence in my life for more than twenty years. In the last few years I began to doubt the heart connection I felt with him... More »
If you were given $1,000, how would you spend it?
Pia Christina
Publish and promote a book with chapters like this: http://iraqmoratorium.org/ On Friday, September 21st, I received a link related to the website above with information about Third Friday [of every month]. Third Friday is... More »
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
Love is as love does. Love is an act of will--namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
