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David Whyte On Being At The Frontiers Of Your Identity

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July 7, 2014

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David Whyte On Being At The Frontiers Of Your Identity

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.

– Wei Wu Wei –

David Whyte On Being At The Frontiers Of Your Identity

In this interview Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with the poet and author David Whyte. Their conversation explores “how each of our lives unfolds as a great conversation with reality, which is the source of originality. David also shares some of his poetry, and explores how our innate sense of exile is actually a core human competency, how vulnerability enhances our perception, and what it might mean to tap into the invisible support that is always available to us.” { read more }

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Try bringing extra awareness to your thoughts today and shifting their emphasis from “me” to “we”.

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How To Eliminate Procrastination

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How To Eliminate Procrastination

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much.

– Alain de Botton –

How To Eliminate Procrastination

In 2009, Fred Stutzman, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina was trying his best to complete important work on his thesis. But, the attraction of free wireless internet access at his local coffee shop, made this goal nearly impossible. He tried unplugging, but to no avail — the urge to connect was far too strong to resist. Later that evening, Stutzman returned home to create a software application designed to help eliminate this problem. Appropriately dubbed ‘Freedom’, it returned the power of focus back into the hands of the user. With over a half million downloads to date, read more to learn how this simple application is taking over the digital world. { read more }

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Do one thing today that you have been procrastinating for awhile.

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Teaching Kids About Living Systems

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July 5, 2014

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Teaching Kids About Living Systems

People who don’t have a concept of the whole, can do very unfortunate things.

– Joseph Campbell –

Teaching Kids About Living Systems

“If you cut a cow in half, do you get two cows?” That is the simple question Linda Booth Sweeney likes to ask young people in her efforts to try and teach them the concept of living systems. It is a notion that she says even four-year-olds will shout out, “No way!” as they recognize that the cow has parts that belong together to make a whole. Join Lisa Bennett, communications director for the Center for Ecoliteracy, as she speaks with Sweeney about trying to educate people of all ages to experience and understand how nature sustains life and how to live accordingly. { read more }

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Take a moment to check out the Center for Ecoliteracy website and discover some ways you can be a part of the solution. { more }

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Three Young Activists & Their Causes

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July 4, 2014

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Three Young Activists & Their Causes

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

– Franz Kafka –

Three Young Activists & Their Causes

Olivia, Madison, and Xiuhtezcatl are fierce love warriors who are fighting for causes they believe in — and none of them are older than 13 years of age! Learn about the stories behind these powerful beings who are taking charge and making a difference in the areas of habitat restoration, voting rights, and environmental protection. { read more }

Be The Change

What was a cause that you believed in as a child? How can you reignite your dedication to this cause today?

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The League of Afghanistan

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Jul 03, 2014
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The League of Afghanistan

Jess Markt was going into his second year of college and was a high jumper on the University of Oregon track team when a spinal chord injury left him a paraplegic. He understood that he could dive deep into despair over his new future or he could simply embrace the challenge. He chose the latter. As it happened, Jess decided to take-on not simply his own disability, but also the traumatic disabilities of a very special group of people: Afghans crippled in the violence of the U.S. war against the Taliban. Watch as Jess helps to build confidence and purpose in a group of men who, quite literally, have had the ground taken from beneath their feet.
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Finding Treasure In A Thrift-Store Couch

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Finding Treasure In A Thrift-Store Couch

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

– Jack Kornfield –

Finding Treasure In A Thrift-Store Couch

Imagine digging through the cushions on a secondhand couch expecting to find a few extra coins — and pulling out, instead, over $40,000. Now ask yourself, would you then return the money? That’s the question three roommates faced when they realized that the lumps in their newly purchased couch were actually large bundles of money. Money that had been set aside to care for a dying man’s widow. Purchased for just $20 at a local thrift store, read more to learn how one tattered old couch became a focal point for the ‘hidden treasure’ of virtue. { read more }

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Develop a habit of choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Become an advocate for goodness within your community.

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The Far Shore of Aging

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The Far Shore of Aging

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

– Mark Twain –

The Far Shore of Aging

As life-prolonging technologies continue to lengthen our stay on earth, we still are learning how to confront the challenges of longer lives. How do we preserve human dignity and joy as our bodies struggle with the inevitable decline of age? Jane Gross and Krista Tippett explore this, and many other facets of what it means to grow old in today’s world in this interview. { read more }

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Spend some time with someone you look to as an elder.

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Beauty & The Dumpster

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Beauty & The Dumpster

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

– Anonymous –

Beauty & The Dumpster

“I’ve been to archaeological sites, know the sun-bleached whiteness of bone, the tea-colored stains left by earth. Here, no layers of soil obscured the find.” Join Meredith Sabini, founder of the Dream Institute of Northern California, as she explores the remnants of a life: the objects left behind by friends and relatives after a loved one passes. { read more }

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Next time you’re about to throw something away, think if there’s another use for that item (even if it’s just rewashing a plastic cup).

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Awakin Weekly: Reveal Your Own Wholeness

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Reveal Your Own Wholeness
by Carol Carnes

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1016.jpgAll mental healing is based on the awareness of the presence of pure Life, or wholeness, at the center of the patient. It is a calling forth, if you will, of that wholeness into visibility. It is not a “repair” of something broken, but an act of transcendence. It is the One that is always wholly at ease, taking precedence over the temporary manifestation of dis-ease.

We get better because there is something in us that is not sick. There is something about us that is not in lack. There is an aspect to us that is never confused or addicted or damaged. If that were not so, no one would ever recover or make changes in their life. Human life is a collection of stories of how we are constantly interacting with the higher nature of our own being! We get great new ideas and act on them. From where do they arise? We decide to clean up our lifestyle and find a great resolve in us, the will to stick to our decision. Where was that all the while we were succumbing to the addiction? Who goes to the AA meeting, the alcoholic or the One who is already clean and sober?

As we focus on what is True about us, we see the weakness of what seemed to be true. We only thought we had to be sick and poor and unloved. We believed we were powerless over our addiction. We decided we had to protect ourselves emotionally and could never have real love. These are mental states based on the illusion that we are at the mercy of effects. Then one day someone, perhaps, shows us how to tune in to the Cause that lives within us. That is the moment we take charge of our life. That is the beginning of transcendent living. That is when our mind is restored to its natural condition; that of formulating thoughts and ideas which automatically reveal our own wholeness in all areas of our experience.

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