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Find your peace in 2012

How are you doing with your New Year resolutions? Did you make any? Quit smoking, get fit, spend more time with the family. Lose weight, get out of debt, quit drinking. Get more creative, be more productive, set better goals or no goals, do what you love, make X number of sales, win that promotion. [...]

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Start your own personal peace project with these five steps

If we are afraid to touch our suffering, we will not be able to realize the path of peace, joy, and liberation. —Thich Nhat Hanh The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching Many of us worry about wars, terrorism, and violent crime. And we might think we have to join the Peace Corps or the United [...]

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Is the world more peaceful?

Imagine, just for a moment, that you’re a visitor from another planet. You’re from some other place far out beyond our solar system, from a place beyond our comprehension. Or maybe you’re from a different level of existence altogether. You might look just like humans here on Earth, or maybe not. Maybe you’re invisible. But [...]

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Why Peace Matters: The Peaceful Planet Manifesto

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is peace. —Eckhart Tolle Twenty-eight pages. Eighteen photos. Two pages of recommended reading and online videos. Three sections devoted to where I’ve been and why I believe “we’re all peaceful underneath all the crap.” Plus ten facts about interpersonal communication, emotion, thinking, and beliefs that are the source of our conflicts [...]

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Let go of judgment: five tips for letting love in

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing, and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. –Rumi We humans categorize, name, and label things to make sense of the world: clouds are white, the sun is warm, dogs are furry, crackers are crunchy, roses emit an odor. We attach names to things and group them [...]

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