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January 21, 2019

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Nuggets of Wisdom from 10 Everyday Heroes

Saturday Awakin Calls are moderated live conversations where amazing people share their journeys and interact with listeners. These conversations are then transcribed and archived creating a treasure trove describing the many ways to “be the change” we want to see in the world. In this post, an Awakin Calls volunteer shares some of her favorite jewels from this past year’s most memorable calls. Read Gayathri Ramachandran’s blog post and dive into this rich collection of inspiration. { read more }

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January 20, 2019

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Quantitative and Qualitative Healing

“A bit over a year ago, my grandmother passed away. During the last couple of years of her life, she was dealing with a lot of different health problems — literally ranging from head to toe. And, thanks to Western medicine, she was able to add years to her life, because of these different drugs and therapies that were working on the physical problems that were happening in her body. But, in the conversations that I had with her in those last couple months of her life, we learned that she was really struggling with the other parts of disease — the nonphysical parts — the emotional, the spiritual, the psychological kind of burdens that these diseases have that western medicine wasn’t addressing…That really got me interested in quality of life, and how we can focus on that in western medicine and in the hospitals that we have here.” As a pre-med student at UC Berkeley, Priya Shah created “The Happiness Advantage” to help students cope with stress. After three semesters, over 400 students had signed up. She shares more in this compelling interview. { read more }

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Remember that at virtually any time you can stop, even just for two or three minutes, and come back to yourself – breathe, let go of tensions and come back to being here.

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January 19, 2019

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How Books Solace, Empower and Transform Us

Since the invention of the printing press, books have fed the human animal’s irrepressible hunger for truth and meaning. Books offer refuge and companionship during lonely childhoods. The following piece opens the pages of a wonderful collection of essays about why we read and how books transform us from some of the most inspiring humans in our world: artists, writers, scientists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and adventurers whose character has been shaped by a life of reading. { read more }

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Consider your most cherished book from an earlier time in your own life. Share a copy with a young person and include a personal note about how it transformed you.

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January 18, 2019

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Mary Oliver: Instructions for Living A Life

Mary Oliver was one of the most beloved poets of our times. A writer who was dazzled by her daily experience of life, and dazzled the rest of us by telling about it in her poems and essays. She deliberately stayed out of the public eye and what follows is one of her rare interviews — a conversation with On Being’s Krista Tippett. Read on for a glimpse of the remarkable woman who once wrote: “When it’s over, I want to say: all my life/I was a bride married to amazement./I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” { read more }

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Read Mary Oliver’s poem, “When Death Comes” in its entirety. What does it surface for you? { more }

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January 17, 2019

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What Does It Mean to Live Wisely and Well?

What does it mean to live wisely and well and what does it take? How can we cultivate qualities such as love, wisdom, kindness, and compassion? Dr. Roger Walsh’s lifework, addresses these questions. A man with an eclectic past, Roger has explored contemplative life as a professor, physician, therapist, celebrated author, spouse, spiritual practitioner, and inquisitive human being. He is a former circus acrobat, as well as a record holder in the fields of high diving and trampolining. Roger claims to have no final answers about life and meaning; yet through a combination of spiritual wisdom and practical tools, he offers hope and healing for us all, individually and globally. { read more }

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What does living wisely and well mean to you? Take a few minutes to write down your thoughts or share them with a friend or family member today.

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January 16, 2019

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The Deepest Silence

“Ever abiding within and without, overlaid with the mutable patchwork garment we know as this visible universe, silence forms the woof and warp of all things seen and unseen. Yet at any instant it is immanent and accessible. To the mystic, silence is the ground, the core of reality. All else relates to and emanates from it. The deeper elements in all religions point to this silence. It is God, it is Buddha; it is Allah. But, to paraphrase Lao Tzu, to name it is to elude its essence. It can only be experienced. The fifteenth century Muslim born saint Kabir wittily observed, “I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.” This paradox, which asserts that we are forever surrounded by silence yet all the while occluded to its existence, forms the key dilemma in spirituality.”
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Reflect on your deepest experience of silence. How did it impact you?

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January 15, 2019

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The Difference Between Fixing and Healing

Encounter the mystery of life and living with Krista Tippet and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, wise physician, author and founder of the Remen Institute for the study of Health and Illness.
Through hearing these powerful stories we can sense that our losses, our illnesses have helped us to live fully and to heal not only ourselves but those whose lives we touch. Life is full of losses and disappointments, and the art of living is to make of them something that can nourish others. { read more }

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How would you live, if you perceived yourself to be exactly what is needed to heal the world? { more }

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