Sangha of Auspicious Companions

April 16, 2018

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In Praise of Crooked Things

“Maybe we once believed that “straight is the gate and narrow is the way” and went in search of it. But look how Nature moves in curves and curlicues. Perhaps that’s why I love the many crooked trees even more than the few arrow-straight ones. They look like they’ve fought for survival in a tough world. Like you. Like me. Notice how they grow both up and sideways, twisted and curved from battling the wind, the storms, or a gardener’s pruning sheers.” { read more }

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Does a secret desire to be perfect lurk half-submerged in your unconscious? Do you long to give up some habitual judgmental attitude? The above article invites us to engage actively in questioning ourselves with an open mind and heart. It offers several experiments we could try out as we move along the glorious and crooked path of life. Give one of them a try today.

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April 15, 2018

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HumanKinda

Are we losing our humanity? Is humankind becoming humankinda?” In this humorous and insightful video, actor and comedian Sam Richardson explores why we’re always in motion, plugged in, and overworked. Through simple breathing practices, and giving ourselves permission to slow down, even to do nothing at all, we can get in touch with what it means to be human. This short video shares more about the power and freedom that comes from simply being. { read more }

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How can you slow down this week, and give yourself more time to relax?

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April 14, 2018

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That Friend Walking Behind Me

In this beautiful reverie, Parker Palmer imagines a friend who has been walking behind him all the time, calling his name. The inner friend finally has to resort to depression to wake him up to ask himself what he really wants behind all his activities, and to help him realize he isn’t alone. It’s not the intellectual self or the ethical self or even the spiritual self, but what Thomas Merton calls the True Self. { read more }

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Is there a friend in you who you aren’t paying attention to? You might take a few minutes every day this week, perhaps over a cup of tea or coffee, to listen carefully as you question your longterm goals and perhaps even reframe them in light of who you are today.

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April 13, 2018

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Paul Hawken: Solutions Man

“On May May 3, 2009, Paul Hawken stood before the graduating class of the University of Portland. He’d been asked to deliver a commencement address that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling and graceful.” No pressure, he joked to his audience. Rousing the spirits of a few hundred young people embarking on a century of climate change, terrorism and extinction was, he knew, no small feat. “You are graduating to the most amazing and stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation,” he told them.” In this riveting recent interview he shares more about the power of narrative, the potential of individuals and his current work.
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For more inspiration join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Brenda Salgado: “Midwifing the Prophecy of an Earth-Based Feminine Consciousness” RSVP and more details here. { more }

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April 12, 2018

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The Very Best Way to Pray for Peace

When a CIA analyst began an interfaith quest for citizen diplomacy by standing shoulder to shoulder with a veiled woman, and listening to the Imam ask, “Don’t we all bleed when we’re hurt?” she was grateful to be praying alongside Muslims instead of interrogating them in Afghanistan for the CIA after 9/11. She continues to work with Muslim communities in the belief that peace in the Middle East can only emerge from small, grassroots efforts. Politicians could profit from her story… { read more }

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In any situation of violence there’s the possibility of discovering that we are all human beings in need of love and attention. Find someone today who puts you off, and climb into their shoes for a little while to have an experience of their way of living.

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April 11, 2018

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Bringing Life to Organizational Change

The gift of organizational change is its ability to simplify complex concepts and inspire the exercise of freedom and creativity. Its goal is to create a future worth wanting. Although now 20 years old, in this article Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers’ suggest four principals, three rules of engagement and four questions to ask that are more relevant than ever. { read more }

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Engage with these 8 fearless questions to discover what might be keeping you from making changes for creating a future worth wanting. { more }

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April 10, 2018

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Kitchen Teachings: A Conversation with Cherri Farrell

Driving home from school, I spotted this young man with a shopping cart. I stopped and asked, “How would you like a loaf of bread my kids at school just made?” He was so grateful and said, My wife and I will really appreciate that. It was heartbreaking. So I said, Why don’t you take these, too? He said, Are you sure somebody else wouldn’t want them? The next day I told the kids and the whole room just exploded! Right on, Ms. Farrell! Right on! Lets do this again! These kids have a kind of awareness. This gem of a teacher shares the kinds of stories we need to hear. { read more }

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After reading this, take a few minutes to see what helpful new idea might come up for you as something to keep in mind, or brainstorm, with a child you know.

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