Do you believe there is more to life than what we can see? If you enjoy stories such as “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud,” “True Believer” and “What Dreams May Come” you will love “The Dream Spinners.” What if it turned out that all you’ve believed about death until now is only […]
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My special guest blogger today is Suzie Kolber, who is an expert in coming up with just the right words we can all use when we wish to offer words of sympathy to bereaved friends and work associates. Sometimes it can be a real challenge to say something other than a cliche or platitude, and
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If anyone has the justification to feel hopeless, we might imagine it would be the spiritual leader of Tibet who was run out of his own country nearly sixty years ago and has been in exile in northern India ever since. However, the Dalai Lama is the embodiment of compassionate understanding of the ways
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We get confused between compassion for someone we like who is easy to get along with and loving, and a higher level of compassion that invites us to remain compassionate for all people, no matter how they behave. Often, the love and compassion we feel for our family members and spouse get tested when
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We’ve all been trained from early childhood to live pretty much in a “reactive” mode—looking around us, noticing what others are doing, seeing what’s on the news, deciding what side of a political campaign we agree with, or whose part in an argument between friends we think is the correct one. We let our buttons
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