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Finding Chika

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Jan 09, 2020
Finding Chika

Finding Chika

Renowned author Mitch Albom introduces us to a story of love, a story about the making of a family through love. He shows us that the rules of what a family should look like don’t matter as long as there is love bringing them together. He introduces us to Chika, who became the much beloved daughter of he and his wife Janine after Chika’s mother was killed in the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Chika’s life was shortened by a difficult and rare brain tumor. The powerful love and joy she left behind continues to remind us that our job is to carry our children, to carry all of the children of the world.
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Erich Fromm’s Six Rules of Listening

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January 9, 2020

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Erich Fromm's Six Rules of Listening

Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.

– Erich Fromm –

Erich Fromm’s Six Rules of Listening

“Listening, Erich Fromm argues, is ‘is an art like the understanding of poetry’ and, like any art, has its own rules and norms. Drawing on his half-century practice as a therapist, Fromm offers six such guidelines for mastering the art of unselfish understanding. { read more }

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One Love

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January 8, 2020

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One Love

We all flow from one fountain — Soul. All are expressions of one love.

– John Muir –

One Love

At five minutes to midnight on June 14, 2018, about 800 people waited to enter Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum. Jews, Muslims and Christians, young and old, most of them strangers to one another, they were forgoing a night’s sleep for the chance to sing Bob Marley’s “One Love” in three languages and three-part harmony as a show of unity from Israel. { read more }

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Spotlight On Kindness: Being Kinder To Yourself

If we resolve to be kinder in the coming year, we must also first resolve to be kinder to ourselves. We are often our own worst critic and the harshest judge of our own perceived inadequacies. If we can’t be compassionate to ourselves, how can we be truly kind and compassionate to others? Love begins with loving ourselves – only then can we give without a sense of obligation or fear. – Ameeta

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Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier

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Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If .one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

– Vera Nazarian –

Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier

“In Stacy Horn’s wonderful book, ‘Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness While Singing with Others,’ we get a first-hand account of how music uplifts and empowers, with various scientific evidence cited. Horn has been singing with The Choral Society of Grace Church (in New York City’s Greenwich Village) since 1982; she evocatively describes her own experience while explaining how science is finally catching up with what vocalists have known since the dawn of time: singing heals.” { read more }

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Awakin Weekly: Silence

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2326.jpgSilence is our real nature. What we are fundamentally is only silence.

Silence is free from beginning and end. It was before the beginning of all things. It is causeless. Its greatness lies in the fact that it simply is. In silence all objects have their home ground. It is the light that gives objects their shape and form. All movement, all activity is harmonized by silence.

Silence has no opposite in noise. It is beyond positive and negative.

Silence dissolves all objects. It is not related to any counterpart which belongs to the mind.

Silence has nothing to do with mind. It cannot be defined but it can be felt directly because it is our nearness.

Silence is freedom without restriction or center. It is our wholeness, neither inside nor outside the body.

Silence is joyful, not pleasurable. It is not psychological. It is feeling without a feeler.

Silence needs no intermediary.

Silence is holy. It is healing. There is no fear in silence.

Silence is autonomous like love and beauty. It is untouched by time.

Silence is meditation, free from any intention, free from anyone who meditates.

Silence is the absence of oneself. Or rather, silence is the absence of absence.

Sound which comes from silence is music. All activity is creative when it comes from silence. It is constantly a new beginning.

Silence precedes speech and poetry and music and all art.

Silence is the home ground of all creative activity. What is truly creative is the word, is Truth. Silence is the word.

Silence is truth.

The one established in silence lives in constant offering, in prayer without asking, in thankfulness, in continual love.

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Reflection

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Reflection

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

– Aldous Huxley –

Reflection

Brandur Patursson is an artist from the Faroe Islands who works with light in the creation of his glass and metal sculptures. After losing 70% of the sight in one eye he started understanding what it is to really see. He realized that we see with our eyes, but how we perceive things is what truly gives them meaning in our lives. If we can literally see and reflect on someone’s else’s feelings instead of their effect on us, he suggests that we could be more tolerant. This short film is itself a mesmerizing reflection on how opening our eyes to who and what is around us allows us to be moved. { read more }

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In Search of the Man Who Broke My Neck

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In Search of the Man Who Broke My Neck

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, how can we know the dancer from the dance?

– William Butler Yeats –

In Search of the Man Who Broke My Neck

When Joshua Prager was 19, a devastating bus accident left him a hemiplegic. He returned to Israel twenty years later to find the driver who turned his world upside down. In this mesmerizing tale of their meeting, Prager probes deep questions of nature, nurture, self-deception and identity. { read more }

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The Sound of One Hand Clapping

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The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.

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The Sound of One Hand Clapping

“One morning in a local coffee shop, I was surprised to see a man at work on a little painting at a table nearby. It wasnt a place where artists gathered. I walked over, took a peek, and was surprised again. It was really good. I complimented the stranger on his work. He seemed to welcome the interruption, and I asked him a few questions. He was just passing through town and living from hand to mouth. Before long, having had nothing of the sort in mind, I found myself in a conversation that crossed into territory usually reserved for more intimate friends. All along, I halfway expected to be hit up for a little cash, but nothing of the sort happened. The more we talked, the more I was touched by this total stranger and his story…” { read more }

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We have so many chances to take a chance and strike up a conversation with a stranger. Try it sometime, even in a little way.

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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

I came into poetry feeling as though, on some level, these words were not just mine but my grandparents’, their parents’.

– Joy Harjo –

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

From United States poet laureate Joy Harpo comes this radiant poem titled, “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet.” Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is the first Native American to serve as poet laureate. { read more }

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