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Celebrating Winter: Retreat and Renew
Use these practices to inspire more ease and play this season
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Why Switch to a Gentle Leash
Try a simple experiment. Open your hands with your thumbs touching each other. Place your thumbs at the base ofthe throat with the fingers pointing back and surrounding the neck. …
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When Completeness Comes
Our local sangha began Chapter Eight inOne Dharma, “Lovingkindness”—or metta in Pali. Before Goldstein attempts to define that word, he finds it necessary to help us see the …Tags:
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Practice: A Rite for Bill of Rights Day
By Cristina Spencer Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion are just a few of the individual liberties secured for Americans in the B…Spirituality & Health
The Courage to Meditate
It was a happy thing that many of us brought our cushions Sunday night, since our local group had to sit on the hard floor of the back classroom of the Unitarian Church. We couldn’…
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Review: "Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves" by Amy Ahlers
“I’m too fat (or too skinny, or unattractive) to ever have a relationship (or have friends, or get a job).” “The world is against me (it always was and always will be).” “I will al…
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Review: "The God Upgrade"
The God Upgrade Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism’s 5,000-Year-Old TraditionBy Rabbi Jamie Korngold Rabbi Jamie Korngold, known as “the Adventure Rabbi” for her wo…
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Review: The Buddha's Way of Happiness
The Buddha’s Way of Happiness: Healing Sorrow, Transforming Negative Emotion, and Finding Well-Being in the Present Moment By Thomas Bien, PhD, with Foreword by Lama Surya Das Th…Spirituality & Health
I Smell Millenial Spirit
Over the past few months I have visited a variety of synagogues and churches across the country. Each of them had one thing in common: a dearth of young people in attendance. Resea…
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A "Peak" Experience: Celebrate International Mountain Day
By Jack Cuffari December 11 is “International Mountain Day.” This commemorative day was enacted by the United Nations in 2003, in an effort to create awareness about the importanc…
