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Monday 12 May 2008

Learning the skill of what to say in a moment of illness

Why do we have such difficulty saying the right things when friends, loved ones, colleagues, and acquaintances are ill? Because we are afraid to say the wrong things, we often stumble over our words or don't say anything at all. Susan Halpern says, "I think it's important to say something. There is such a loneliness that comes with a diagnosis. Suddenly our path in life has changed, and something has entered that we never expected, so we need to hear from friends that they care. I did.

Monday 05 May 2008

Compassionate economics

What if we brought a more nurturing attitude to our nation's economic policy? What if we placed the same value on child care and health care as we do on prisons and warfare? Riane Eisler, renowned author of The Chalice and the Blade (HarperSanFrancisco 1988), draws on her visionary work on family, feminine leadership, and patriarchy to create solutions to the economic woes facing our nation and our world. She explains that the problem is an ongoing gender bias that exists under the radar, even into the twenty-first century. Even with a woman knocking on the door of the Presidency, our society-and our government-still views women, and the nurturing qualities of the feminine, as inferior.

Monday 28 April 2008

Rumi and the evolving soul

Rumi has the magnificent idea that human consciousness is a continually evolving thing and that we never stop anywhere. We've dissolved as a mineral into plant life, and from plant life into animal life, and from there into human beings. We are not finished.

Monday 21 April 2008

Beyond the "law of attraction"

Can we really use the law of attraction to have everything we want? Should we? A few years ago Dr. Lisa Love found herself at a crossroads, where the things she thought she wanted seemed at odds with where the universe was taking her.

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