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Tuesday, April 29:

Keith Varnum: The Game of Life and How to Play It Most people consider life a battle-but it is not a battle, it is a game. The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Sunday, March 16:

Keith Varnum: The Tao of Positive Expectations The "Tao" means the Way of Nature, the Way of the Universe-the way things work. The Tao of Positive Expectations is the way positive expectation works in our lives.

Thursday, February 28:

Keith Varnum: Be a Money Shaman You've got to feel good about yourself and allow yourself to be loved before you can share love with others-in whatever form that takes.

Saturday, February 9:

Tobias Lars: It's Your Father - And He's Enlightened Now During one afternoon my father and I went for a walk by ourselves on the docks. We walked quietly and at one point I could feel his heart wanting to say something to me.

Friday, January 4:

Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson: Tantra Yoga - Pleasure And Desire Tantra is primarily concerned with inner, mystical experiences, contrary to popular notions that it is the Yoga of Sex or a form of couples' therapy.

Saturday, December 29:

Keith Varnum: The Art of Relating Dale Carnegie teaches that life achievement is due to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people. I only now realize how profoundly my life has been molded by those evenings spent with Carnegie's spirit.

Thursday, November 29:

Paul Coutinho, SJ: Do You React or Respond to Life? Responding rather than reacting helps us live freely and in greater harmony with our true identity in every situation. It helps us grab hold of the freedom we seek in order to enter into the river of divine life.

Tuesday, October 9:

Michael A. Singer: Contemplating Death It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death.

Saturday, September 29:

Mark Shapiro: Paradigmatic Distortions of the East and West This article will examine some commonly recognized distortions in devotional religion and go on to examine some uncommonly recognized ones in eastern dharma. It is time to challenge and deconstruct the western romanticization of eastern paradigms in the same way the distortions of western spirituality have been so glaringly clear for some time now to serious seekers.

Thursday, September 20:

Keith Varnum: The Power of Laughter Laughter, play, spontaneity and improvisation are integral aspects of being human, healthy, happy-and successful. Tribal peoples laugh, sing, chant, drum, dance and act out stories as basic ways to relate socially, to make individual and collective decisions, and to achieve their goals in daily life.

Tuesday, September 18:

Kisha Mays: Corporate Sponsorship - 3 Reasons Why You Need It for Your Event or Project Most people do not realize the power of corporate sponsorship and why they need it. You can get corporate sponsorship for almost any event or project from concerts, festivals, fundraisers, book launches, networking events, garden clubs, book clubs, seminars, art events, to sports events, etc.

Saturday, September 8:

Keith Varnum: Freedom Now! Freedom is the ability to have what you choose to have as you choose to have it.

Thursday, August 30:

Keith Varnum: The Advantages of Living Out Loud Do any of us even know the absolute truth about any situation in our lives? And can we ourselves handle the whole truth all at once about any subject? Let alone share that depth with others?

Wednesday, August 29:

Bob Makransky: Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily The basic tenet of magic is, that it's all just a dream; that waking consciousness is but a more highly evolved and specialized facet of dream consciousness. Dream consciousness came first evolutionarily, and waking consciousness is an outgrowth of dreaming.

Michelle Beaudry: How To Forgive Teaches you how to forgive, step by step. Forgiveness allows you to upgrade how you feel about your past, and get on happily with your life.

Wednesday, August 15:

stephen ruppenthal: Turning Away From the Dark Side of the Force Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, I ask myself, how does the good Anakin Skywalker turn to the dark side and become its embodiment Darth Vader? Moreover, how do we deal with our own dark side, which can sneak up before we know what hit us? Here are four ways to deal with our destructive side and turn instead to be nourished by the positive energy of the Force.

Thursday, August 9:

David Riklan: The Untold Truth About Mentors, and Why You DON'T Need "ONE" I think there is a misconception about what a mentor truly is. A mentor is someone who guides you, someone wise, someone you trust. A mentor can be your confidant, advisor, coach, or even your role model. Many people swear by their mentors and frequently credit them with much of their success.

Wednesday, August 1:

stephen ruppenthal: Karma-formed States and Personal Freedom The law of karma states that everything we do, say, or even think has consequences. But is karma completely fatalistic and set in stone, or is there something we can actually do about it? See how karma, which operates everywhere and at every moment,leaves the future entirely up to us. If you want to influence karma, it calls for changing yourself at the most fundamentally deep level that is accessible.

Monday, July 30:

Tobias Lars: The Shaman Energy Exchange Your intuition will tell you much about others, you will be able to see behind their "presentation faces" (what they are putting forward for others to see). This ability expands as you don't judge others.

Wednesday, July 25:

stephen ruppenthal: A Place Safe from Heat and Cold Whether it is global warming or from some other cause, the whole world is enduring great extremes in heat, cold, wet, and dry. This is hard not just on our bodies and our living environments, but on our emotions. Here are five things all of us can do to stay calmly centered in ourselves, whether it is bitterly cold or blisteringly hot.

Wednesday, July 18:

Stephen Ruppenthal: Psychological Work and Direct Awakening Meditation is still the best tool for slowing down the fast mind and reducing stress. But for many in the modern world, particularly those who have suffered childhood traumas, meditation is best supplemented by therapy, which opens up and resolves hidden memories and traumas. Here is a plea for standing up and accepting all of who we really are.

Friday, July 6:

Stephen Ruppenthal: Bardo: Using Pain for Spiritual Gain Bardo, which means "between two," isn't just where we go, according to the Tibetans, after this life is over. We experience bardos any time we are in between things or relationships in life. Herein lies either great danger for a fall or great opportunity for change and growth; the choice is up to us.

Thursday, July 5:

Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal: Spiritual Awakening and the Near-death Experience Is enlightenment only possible for saints and mystics, or is it within reach of us all? Learn how ordinary people have glimpsed the most profound vision in the near-death experience, and how this gives hope to all.

Thursday, May 24:

Mark Shapiro: Demystifying Eastern Transcendental Models of Spirituality

Monday, May 14:

Keith Varnum: The Power of Fun My bosses called me shallow and silly. They warned new executives and employees to not spend much time with me or they would be "infected with idiocy."

Bob Makransky: Death is Watching Our root self-consciousness, the sense that we feel within ourselves that something is watching us, is our death).

Saturday, April 14:

Ron Dinehart: Finding My Passion Back in college, I remember reading "Death of a Salesman" (by Arthur Miller) and the professor saying, "There is nothing more tragic in life than doing something for a living that you did not like." I smirked and said to myself, "that would never happen to me. How could somebody do something they couldn't stand doing? That's just crazy and cowardly..."

Marion Bond West: An Open Gate When my husband died of a brain tumor, I became very angry. Life was not fair. I hated being alone. After three years as a widow, I walked around with a face like a stiff mask...

Lesley Vejar: Humanity Is In School Humanity is in school. Some students may question the lesson plan, others may be obedient. The beauty of this school is that you have the free will to decide how you will accept your lessons and how you will respond or react to those lessons...

Friday, April 13:

John Armitage: The Yoga of Laughter When you can laugh at yourself, remember that you are also being compassionate towards yourself. Many ones would say, "I am a compassionate being. I am compassionate to all." And then would add as an afterhought, "But how can I be compassionate to myself?"

Sayahda: Recognizing Another’s Light Planet Earth and her inhabitants are being faced with many challenges. Each challenge holds an opportunity. It is important to find the opportunity that is being offered to mankind even though war may be on the horizon. Battles going on within self express themselves outwardly and affect all life. If humanity chooses to honor their personal demons they feed fear. Fear is the biggest terrorist of all...

Thursday, April 12:

Judith Pennington: The Radiant Stillness in Your Heart It was a few thousand years ago that the prophet Elijah heard "the still, small voice" which comforts and guides us today. Chased by Jezebel's armies, Elijah took refuge in a cave and prayed for an end to his life, as he felt that he had failed God. First the wind rent the mountains, then an earthquake and fire, but for the first time in Hebrew history, the voice of God was found not in these forces of nature but came afterward in a "voice of gentle stillness" heard from within, in the silence of loving contemplation...

Anthony de Mello, SJ: On Waking Up Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence...

Tuesday, April 10:

Zensunni: Beyond Indigo (1 comments) This takes us past current limitations of spiritual growth to a place of new reality's.

ZaKaiRan: What is Ascension? For most people Ascension means that they are going to leave this material plane and finally get to be out of hell and be in Heaven, or the 5th Dimension. That instead of leaving this plane in the traditional way of dying, this time they will be leaving by increasing their vibratory rate to a point where they can "go" to the 5th dimension...

Charlotte Edwards: Why Not For Man? This is a true story. It happened. I do not try to interpret it. I just think of it in the bad moments, and from it comes only one hopeful question: "If so for birds, why not for man?"

author unknown: An Eight-Cow Wife My trip to the Kiniwata Island in the Pacific was a memorable one. Although the island was beautiful and I had an enjoyable time, the thing I remember most about my trip was the fact "Johnny Lingo gave eight cows for his wife." I'm reminded of it every time I see a woman belittle her husband or a wife wither under her husband's scorn. I want to say to them, "You should know why Johnny Lingo gave eight cows for his wife..."

Monday, April 9:

Dr. Jean Houston: The Way of the Journey There are an enormous number of catalogs, an enormous range of choices of different seminars and workshops and teachers. How does a person figure out what is likely to work for them from this vast set of choices, and when they do figure out what works for them, how do they really get themselves to practice it consistently?

Sunday, April 8:

Robert Rabbin: How Shall We Live? We are each expressions of a fundamental reality, an essence that some call God, some spirit, some consciousness, some love. It doesn't matter what you call it. It doesn't care. It is beyond names. But it is real, and thus we all belong to the same family. My blood is the same as yours, my heart is the same as yours, my body is the same as yours. We seem to stand apart from each other, but our essence is one. We only seem to be different, but we are all parts of a whole. Naturally, whatever any one part does touches and affects the whole.

Author Unknown: The Most Beautiful Heart One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Joe Vitale: What Are You Dismissing? When we dismiss people and ideas because the entire world doesn't agree with them, we get to be right. But we also get to stay empty inside. By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible. It doesn't matter if the book you read and love is loved by anyone else. It doesn't matter if the teacher you admire is admired by anyone else. It doesn't matter if the healing method that worked for you doesn't work for everyone else. What matters is you. Your happiness. Your health. Your healing. Your well-being...

Saturday, April 7:

Dan Joseph: The World Needs To Be Flooded In Divine Love This morning, I was sitting in a coffee shop, trying to do some reading. Three women were sitting at a table next to me. The women were talking about various men in their lives, and occasionally threw in a comment about how men are controlling, how men are not very psychologically aware, how men try to replicate their relationships with their mothers, and so on...

by Nisandeh Neta: What Dreams May Come Most people, at some point in their lives, question whether they are on the right path. Often, sadly, it isn't until they are faced with trauma or death that they stop to ask the important questions...

Friday, April 6:

by Rajat Kumar Samal: The Present of Spirituality Do you know why people get into adventurous sports for fun? It allows them to get into the PRESENT. One wrong move or a slight distraction can take their lives away from them. So a fully focused mind is required to deal with that situation. People risk their lives to be in the complete happiness that is to be in the PRESENT. We don't have to risk our lives. We can attain such a state by being focused and forgetting the past and future....

Takara: Greeting Each Day In A Natural Way The typical North American morning: A very obnoxious sound jolts you out of your dream state. Depending on how deep in dreaming you were, it feels like you've been slammed back into your body. You head for the kitchen to start the coffe and turn on the news along your way. Soon its a hustle and bustle getting ready for work - whether its just you or an entire house full....

Thursday, April 5:

Barbara Biziou: Find Peace And Comfort In The Age Of Anxiety How can we find positive, sustainable comfort in this age of anxiety? A comfort that connects us to ourselves, and the Divine, regardless of our religion or spiritual tradition? In my life, meditation is a key that turns the lock and opens the mind and heart, as it shifts us from unconsciousness back into consciousness.

Robert Rabbin: Telling The Truth If we want to transform ourselves, to free ourselves from falsehood, to liberate ourselves from anxiety and fear and conditioning, to experience truth, then we will have to tell the truth. We will have to put our actual lives on the line. All transformation begins from where we are, by admitting what is true. This might be painful at first, but telling the truth will ultimately bring exquisite health, joy, and radiance to our lives. The truth will set us free...

Peter and Esther Fisher: We are Creators and The Law of Creation The greatest secret in the world is that you and I are incredibly powerful and aware creators. We are immersed in and responsible for the creative process, which dictates the outcome of our individual and collective lives in every moment. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Our world is exactly what we collectively design it to be -- all of the time and that our universe operates as if we knew that we were powerful creators...

Wednesday, April 4:

MSI Ishaya: Perfection Patiently Awaits Your Simple Choice The secret to success in any area of human concern is really no secret at all. It is so obvious: whenever you whole-heartedly focus your attention, you will progress. The master key in that sentence is "whole-heartedly..."

Tuesday, April 3:

Robert Rabbin: Meditation On Peace Today, there is perhaps no more urgent question than this: How can I make peace real? How are we to meet violence with nonviolence, to meet war with peace, to meet fear with love, to meet hatred with compassion? In this moment in which the world is trembling and reeling with angry passions and violent convictions, we must call for peace, stand for peace, and act for peace. We must accept only peace. But first...

Mary Arsenault: An Interview with Andrew Cohen MA: If our true nature, our very deepest, highest self, is already enlightened, why would this enlightened self ever choose to view life through the experiences of the historical self or the unenlightened separate ego? AC: The ego can be very strong because it is the deeper self-sense that actually energizes the ego in the first place...

Mark McCloskey: Pure Silence A gentle, loving, inner peace and silence is here and now in this moment. It has always been this way. It is always here. It is right here within you and all around you, a stillness, an apparent void, a seeming nothingness out of which everything arises, exists, and eventually returns....

Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway: When Someone You Love Pushes Your Buttons … Nothing is more aggravating in relationships than having your buttons pushed by the one you love. It seems ironic that the one you love could make you so insane. But once the honeymoon period cools and real life sets in, we all take our partners off the pedestal and begin to notice their less than finer points...

Monday, April 2:

Averi Torres: Transmute Fear into Light Fear has become such a common part of all of our lives that we have adapted to it. Most of the time we don't even realize that we have allowed it to dictate our actions. We do things and believe in ways that harm us with their negative results. We treat others badly because we distrust them. We isolate ourselves more and more so as not to be hurt. We won't go places or do things because we're full of so many undefined fears that we've become immobilized...

Sunday, April 1:

Shirley Knapp: Re-Awaken Your Being When we tune into a pure frequency of light and love there is nothing that can transform as quickly as thought. The human body is indeed very important to work on as we harbor the thought patterns that limit us through fear. When we eliminate these thoughts, we can and do create miracles! We are living in a time when this is vitally important as we are creating miracles not only in our daily lives but also on a global level...

Suzanne E. Harrill: A New Paradigm for Marriage It is never too late to learn how to create an enlightened relationship. Even if you began a traditional relationship filling in each other's missing pieces, you can learn to do it differently, as you each heal and learn how to actualize your life from a greater perspective. You can move on to something better....

Saturday, March 31:

Thomas Eldridge: On Being Stuck: Coping for Sensitive People If we desire true self-actualization, eventually we must come to face the realization that what is at stake -- our hopes, our dreams, and our goals, is more important than our need for safety.

Cindy Griffith: The Butterfly Transformation: A Perfect Role Model Once we have emerged into the outer world, we find our new found strength and beauty that we had hidden away also emerged. We are now ready to take the next step and put what we have learned into action. We take that Leap of Faith, and begin to fly the highs and the lows of the next stage in our soul's evolution.

Friday, March 30:

Connie Barrett: Judgment Day When I first became committed to spiritual growth, I knew that judgment had to go, but my realization that judgment was wrong only served to make me feel guilty whenever I noticed the automatic program start to play. That I noticed was an improvement; that I was now consciously devoting more energy to judging myself -- was not. So I decided to take a closer look at judgment.

Thomas Eldridge: The Spiritual Unfolding Process Spiritual unfolding is a process of discovering who we are at our very core -- our essence. It is a process of learning what it is that our soul resonates with. When we honor the sacredness of ourselves, we may genuinely allow ourselves to freely be who we are. We cannot bear the insecurity any longer of living with a false persona.

Richard Lang: The Land of Everlasting Clearness Whatever is happening, the pristine clearness of home remains ever present -- always unaffected, always accessible. To stay awake to this clarity - to keep shining the light onto the place where you are -- this is pure freedom, pure peace and joy. You have sailed back safely into your home port. So long as you stay there, not even the worst storms can touch you. Your nothingness is your protection.

Thursday, March 29:

Dan Joseph: The Costume Ball Imagine that you are invited to a masquerade ball. You spend weeks choosing a costume for the event. Should you dress up as royalty? As a villain? As someone famous? As an angel? You eventually settle on a costume, and go to the ball. There you find hundreds of other people, dressed in the widest variety of outfits. The party is all in good fun, and you play through the night in your chosen role...

Wednesday, March 28:

Jelaila Starr: President Bush and the Formula of Compassion From the higher perspective, the role of a nation’s leader is that of a mirror, so to speak. He reflects back to the people the way they treat themselves, their Inner Child, and in this case, each other. In other words, he plays the role of us, the parent or adult, in our relationship with our Inner Child. So whatever we feel he has done to us is what we have done to ourselves, to our Inner Children, and to each other....

Tuesday, March 27:

Sonia Choquette: The Meaning of Christmas No matter who you are, your heart cannot resist the beauty of an ornamented Christmas tree or the glow of a mysterious menorah. Cynicism gives way to the celebration when carefully preparing holiday sweets or stringing colorful lights around the entrance to your home. Any heart warms to a rousing rendition of "Joy to The World" or the sensuous smell of roasting chestnuts on a crisp winter's eve...

Lee Simonson: You Already Own The Gifts You Seek By the time he was 19, Silas had saved enough money to board the train and head west to seek his fame and fortune. He set up an import business in San Francisco and was not only well received by the business community there, but achieved success in a relatively short time. Colleagues liked and trusted him. It seemed that luck was on his side, until several years later when he stood on the street and cried while he watched a fire destroy his business. Everything he had worked for had gone up in smoke...

Monday, March 26:

Vidya Ishaya: Why Do We Ascend? One evening as I sat in a meeting with 100 others, I felt some anxiety. I knew I wanted to share with everyone, but speaking in front of a crowd has always been stressful for me. What would people think of me as I spoke? So here’s what I said...

Sunday, March 25:

MSI Ishaya: Whatever You Want, You Can Have When you are aligned with the invincible forces of Natural Law, desired goals materialize extremely quickly. But if you have contradictory desire streams — desires for two opposing things at the same time — it becomes much more difficult for Nature to fulfill your desires....

Takara: Learning To Ride The Waves When the unexpected happens, you have to step into the unknown. The waves are crashing. You have no choice about that. You can get on the board and try to ride or you can give up and be pounded by the waves. Its entirely your choice. In order to ride, you have to fully feel the uncertainty and discomfort of where you are...

Robert Rabbin: Are We Truly Alive? To be truly alive is to be deeply in love with and connected to this moment. Not the moment that we imagine, not the moment of our thoughts and beliefs about this moment, but this moment, as it is. This moment of suddenness and energy and surprise. This moment of wonder and awe. This moment of beauty and Silence...

Saturday, March 24:

Vidya Ishaya: Can Your Thoughts Affect Everyone on the Planet? Have you ever noticed how many people believe that their consciousness is theirs alone – that they are separate and cut off from others’ consciousness?

ZaKaiRan: Ascension Tsunami 2005 The Tsunami has hit big time, and I am not just speaking literally. The Tsunami that has hit these countries is a physical representative of the big Tsunami that is hitting the entire planet, that is the Ascension Tsunami; the Tsunami that is propelling this planet to higher levels of divine function and awareness...

Friday, March 23:

Robert Rabbin: The Ease Of Awakening I want to talk about awakening. I want to talk about the kind of awakening that is all around us, that doesn't require any special effort or activity, the kind of awakening that exists as the inner truth of all living things... of all things everywhere...

Dan Joseph: Out of the Box When I was a child, I realized that it was fairly easy to get people’s approval. Work hard, say something smart, or simply be "nice," and people would give you all sorts of positive vibes. It seemed like a reasonable deal. I liked feeling approved-of, and it wasn’t too hard to play the game. At least, not at first...

Thursday, March 22:

Vidya Ishaya: The Best Kept Secrets Are The Ones In Full View In the mountains of Colorado, Joseph Bowman made his fortune from guiding tourists. When his twin sons, Rick and Roger, reached the age of 18, he gave a car to each of them, namely a 1953 Studebaker and a 1955 Packard. Rick was delighted with his Studebaker and gave it high praise, pointing out to his father all the things he liked about it and all the things he could do with it. Josef was so pleased with his son's gratitude that, in a short time, he presented Rick with a newer vehicle, a 1999 black Cadillac...

Dan Joseph: The Wellspring In our society, romantic love is considered by many people to be the key to happiness. If you can find the right partner, and develop the right type of relationship, you're going to be transported to a higher, happier life... Is she the right one? He seems interesting - maybe he's the one I'm supposed to be with. This one is OK, but I'm really looking for someone with more sparks...

Katharine Giovanni: War and Fear I could feel the fear in the grocery store when I went to buy milk this afternoon I saw fear when I looked at the shelves where the water used to be, all gone now, only one or two lone bottles left. Fear was also in each and every headline in the checkout line. I could even feel the fear in the post office. Everyone was rushing around and looking at no one, and everywhere I went was quieter than usual...

Wednesday, March 21:

Michael Levy: School Day Pranks Tom is a hundred years young today. To his delight, family and friends have made him a surprise birthday party. Everyone is sat at the large table when suddenly, great grandson Bobby, nine years of age, stands-up and asked him... What is the secret to living a happy, healthy life and still being active like you grandpa? How do you keep so cheery and youthful at a hundred years of age?

Tuesday, March 20:

MSI Ishaya: Fulfillment of the Ancient Dream As soon as even one remembers, the Truth is there, wholly and completely, in all its radiant glory, for the Truth also permeates every particle of the Created worlds; the Truth is fully everywhere, always...

Richard Lang: Land of Everlasting Clearness I used to imagine -- most of the time - that I lived out there in the world, just the same as everyone else. I considered myself a thing, a person, living in a particular country, in a particular town, in a particular street, in a particular house. In fact, home was this body -- you could always find me at this address. Well, as long as my heart continued beating and my lungs breathing....

Vidya Ishaya: Are You Wearing a Ball and Chain? When I look inside, I see what I truly want. This is not different from saying that I look inside to see what the Ascendant wants. What I find there is totally joyful, enlivening -– wonderful...

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Friday, January 25:

Self Empowerment Network's Personal Development Tools Our Self Empowerment website helps you develop confidence, set and achieve goals, give life 100% and more. Free Newsletter, Articles and Resources.

Thursday, April 12:

Recommended Website Japanese Engrish takes a fun look at the various products, signs, bags, clothing, etc. coming out of Japan that contain funny or far-out English.

Wednesday, April 11:

Recommended Website From Bill: “WOW! This is a profound piece of cyber art! Sit back for about 3 minutes and let this wonderful piece sink in! Beautiful!!”

Spirit of Maat A central clearinghouse of undistorted information in the areas of spirituality, human potential, and new science. The truth will bring clarity. And, most important, truth just might provide the answers to saving ourselves from ourselves. And finding peace.

Monday, April 9:

Recommended Website From Self-Healing Expressions! We hope this 2-minute 'Starshine' movie serves to uplift and inspire you today. Give it a few minutes to upload -- it's worth the wait!

Saturday, April 7:

Recommended Website The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year.  The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away.  So what does one do here every winter?  Hold an outdoor festival, of course!

Thursday, April 5:

Recommended Website I travel a lot and one of my favorite destinations leads North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl "dead zone", which is 130kms from my home. Why my favorite? Because one can take long rides there on empty roads. The people there all left and nature is blooming. There are beautiful woods and lakes.

Wednesday, April 4:

Recommended Website History through the eyes of those who lived it. First hand accounts, illustrated with vintage photos, original radio broadcasts. Your ringside seat to history.

Monday, April 2:

Recommended Website Urban Legends and Folklore Current Net Hoaxes, rumors, urban legends, and other digital lies. Do you get emails you're asked to forward to as many people as possible for amazing benefits?

Saturday, March 31:

Recommended Website WisdomFlash is the combination of visual beauty, inspiring music and a message of wisdom all put together to create a magical experience in your heart. Each WisdomFlash is presented to you through a dynamic, multi-media flash animation containing messages from some of the world's most insightful authors.

Thursday, March 29:

Recommended Website A remarkable discovery linking the biblical alphabets of Hebrew and Arabic to modern chemistry reveals that a lost code -- a translatable alphabet -- and a clue to the mystery of our origins has lived within us all along. Applying this discovery to the language of life -- the familiar elements of hydrogen, nitrogen oxygen and carbon that form our DNA -- may now be replaced with key letters of the ancient languages. In doing so, the code of all life is transformed into the words of a timeless message. Translated, the message reveals that the precise letters of God’s ancient name are encoded as the genetic information in every cell, of every life.

Wednesday, March 28:

Recommended Website A remarkable slideshow with sound. You feel like you are in the Space Shuttle as it takes off, and heads off on a trip to Mars. Takes about 12 minutes, but is fun!

Monday, March 26:

Recommended Website Photographs that show the incredible reflections of water, as alive and highly responsive to every one of our emotions and thoughts. It is quite clear that water easily takes on the vibrations and energy of its environment, whether toxic and polluted or naturally pristine.

Saturday, March 24:

Recommended Website A slide show that is positively inspiring -- a positive pause!

Thursday, March 22:

Recommended Website This is just the most amazing example of a woman who clearly loves her dog and whose dog loves her... they have incredible communication, bonding and connection...

Wednesday, March 21:

Recommended Website What the Bleep Do We Know?! is a radical departure from convention. It demands a freedom of view and greatness of thought so far unknown, indeed, not even dreamed of since Copernicus.

Monday, March 19:

Recommended Website Beyond The Ordinary: the radio program dedicated to the search for knowledge where an ordinary life is not an option. Our intent is to promote the wonderment, possibilities, wisdom, discovery, and enjoyment of life!

Saturday, March 17:

Recommended Website Spiritual Cinema Circle: the pioneer in subscription-based home entertainment distribution, bringing excellent films right to our homes.

Thursday, March 15:

Recommended Website Divine Powers will intervene Nuclear War: See if this article feels right to you.

Wednesday, March 14:

Recommended Website The ONE Campaign -- To Make Poverty History

Monday, March 12:

Recommended Website Essential Web Sites -- Escape voice-mail hell; call a human being at Amazon; be amazed by a basketball swoosh.

Saturday, March 10:

Recommended Website Katrina Bloggers Blogging from near New Orleans. If you want to get real news from real people....

Thursday, March 8:

Recommended Website A free ebook that's worth reading. To Bee or Not to Bee Book. The spiritual journey of a bee who wanted to bee more...

Wednesday, March 7:

Recommended Website Since the early days of the Internet, most websites have just been words with pictures and color. In the near future, we'll be seeing something much more useful....

Monday, March 5:

Recommended Website It's Christmas on the Village Green. Turn on the lights, decorate a tree and watch Chudleigh and his friends...

Saturday, March 3:

Recommended Website Here's a way for you to see how the health risk from industrial air pollution in your neighborhood compares to other neighborhoods across the country...

Thursday, March 1:

Recommended Website Architects and engineers compete to see whose team can build the most spectacular structure using little more than cans of food at CANSTRUCTION

Wednesday, February 28:

Recommended Website An outfit called Jingle Networks is providing an alternative directory assistance service — and it's free at 1-800-FREE411

Monday, February 26:

Recommended Website Virtual Parks -- View over 900+ panoramic photos and see what it's like at some of the superlative parks in California, the western US & Canada.

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Diaries

Saturday, April 14:

K Amber: Active Listening

Friday, April 13:

Dan Joseph: Seeking Beauty

Wednesday, April 11:

Vidya Ishaya: Last Night I Dreamed

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Goodies & Humor

Friday, April 13:

Goodies - Who Counts? Who Counts? ; Buddhist Observation ; The Awakening ; Reminders

Humor - Snowed In Snowed In ; Answering Machine ; Birthday Flowers ; Wedding Gift

Thursday, April 12:

Goodies - Red Marbles ; Red Marbles ; The Four Noble Truths ; If Dogs Were Teachers ; Wrong Number ? ;

Wednesday, April 11:

Humor - Key Bridge ; Key Bridge ; The Wrong Last Rites ; Southern Belle ; Sarah Finkel ;

Monday, April 9:

Goodies - SLOW DOWN BEFORE YOU GET HIT BY A BRICK ; SLOW DOWN BEFORE YOU GET HIT BY A BRICK ; You Owe Me Nothing ; Illusions ; The Heart of Eternal Love ;

Humor - Missouri Farmer ; Missouri Farmer ; Small Town Doctor ; Falling Rocks ; World Famous Son ;

Sunday, April 8:

Goodies - The Daffodil Principle ; The Daffodil Principle ; The Purple Hat ; Shell Free ; Beauty There ;

Saturday, April 7:

Humor - Seven Ten Cap ; Seven Ten Cap ; Potato Garden ; Women and Men - on Haircuts ; Surgical Residency ;

Friday, April 6:

Goodies - Author Seeks People to Interview for Book Author Seeks People to Interview for Book ; Practicing Forgiveness ; The Trouble Tree ; Give It All Up

Humor - Water Leak Water Leak ; Good Old Dave ; Paradox of Law ; Secretary of the Navy

Wednesday, April 4:

Goodies - King Arthur and The Big Question: Something to Ponder ; King Arthur and The Big Question: Something to Ponder ; Review Of The Way Of The Dreamcatcher:Spirit Lessons With Robert Lax, Poet-Peacemaker-Sage ; What is Enough? The Stone Cutter ; The Box ;

Humor - Every Wonder Why? ; Every Wonder Why? ; Tree Turtle ; Catastrophic Disaster ; Wedding Traditions ;

Monday, April 2:

Goodies - Shipwreck Survivor ; Shipwreck Survivor ; Never Too Late To Be All You Can Possibly Be! ; Disarming My Inner Terrorists ; Facts About The Heart ;

Humor - Two Sisters ; Two Sisters ; Maple Doors ; Insurance Rates ; Jury Foreman ;

Sunday, April 1:

Goodies - A Conversation Of Waves ; A Conversation Of Waves ; The Golden Rule from 13 Different Religious Perspectives ; Dog Lovers' Story ; Ordinary Wisdom - Or Is It? ;

Saturday, March 31:

Humor - Zen Sarcasm ; Zen Sarcasm ; Paul Newman and Robert Redford ; Quick Plane ; Lost Bet ;

Friday, March 30:

Goodies - A New Chakra ; A New Chakra ; An Old Man, A Boy And A Donkey ; So What Is There To Realize? ; The Quality of the Mind ;

Thursday, March 29:

Humor - Rare Books ; Rare Books ; Adopted Kids ; DANGER! ; Baseball Feat ;

Wednesday, March 28:

Goodies - A Picture Of Peace ; A Picture Of Peace ; A Father and His Rich Family ; The Farmers and The Carpenter ; You Are Gifted ;

Humor - Billing Service ; Billing Service ; Lost Bible ; Late for Class ; The Doctor and the Lawyer ;

Monday, March 26:

Goodies - Santa is Alive and Well ; Santa is Alive and Well ; Giving The Gift of Love Will Endure ; A Jewish Holiday Story ; Oasis Parable ;

Humor - Angel Ornament ; Angel Ornament ; Nativity Scene ; Christmas Cards ; Christmas Brandy ;

Sunday, March 25:

Goodies - A Letter to Our Dogs ; A Letter to Our Dogs ; Love, Grace and Respect ; Where The Greatest Treasure Is Hidden ; The Road Not Taken ;

Saturday, March 24:

Humor - Where Is God? ; Where Is God? ; Scientists and God ; You Can’t Take It With You ; Call The Doctor ;

Friday, March 23:

Goodies - A Monster to Hug ; A Monster to Hug ; Everyone Is Significant ; Coincidence on the Road ; The Window ;

Humor - A Real-Life Sherlock Holmes ; A Real-Life Sherlock Holmes ; Flying Over The Fire ; Compiling a Family History ; Big Jake’s Coming! ;

Wednesday, March 21:

Goodies - The Ant and the Contact Lens ; The Ant and the Contact Lens ; Why Don't Pets Live As Long As People? ; Believing in Yourself ; The Guru Within ;

Humor - Retired Professors ; Retired Professors ; Secret Formula ; I Know What's Wrong ; Playing Weeweechu ;

Monday, March 19:

Goodies - Hearing Your Song ; Hearing Your Song ; Being Thankful ; Miracles ; Disarming My Inner Terrorists ;

Humor - Irish Priest ; Irish Priest ; Circle Flies ; Doctors and HMO's ; The Devil And His Boston Victim ;

Sunday, March 18:

Goodies - Do It Anyway ; Do It Anyway ; John of God ; What Does Love Mean? ; I AM HERE ;

Saturday, March 17:

Humor - Balance ; Balance ; Diagnosis ; Managers and Engineers ; Congregation ;

Friday, March 16:

Goodies - The Mule Who Fell in a Well ; The Mule Who Fell in a Well ; Hidden Gleam of Light ; Humble Spirit ; God, Speak to Me ;

Humor - The Greatest ; The Greatest ; Squirrels ; Mexican Jews ; Herr Mozart ;

Wednesday, March 14:

Goodies - The Carpenters Glasses The Carpenters Glasses ; The Transformative Power of Gratitude ; Who Knows What Is Good And What Is Bad? ; Jesse's Silkworm Story

Humor - Taking A Centipede to Church Taking A Centipede to Church ; Hymn #365 ; Veterinarian Identification ; Moose Hunting

Monday, March 12:

Goodies - The Pearls ; The Pearls ; 10 Warning Signs of Inner Peace ; The Cold Within ; The Traveler ;

Humor - Stupid Is As Stupid Does ; Stupid Is As Stupid Does ; Desert Refuge ; Home ; Mechanical Expert ;

Sunday, March 11:

Goodies - Who Knows What Is Good And What Is Bad? ; Who Knows What Is Good And What Is Bad? ; Common Sense of a Goose ; A Monster to Hug ; You Can't See a Person's Heart on the Outside ;

Saturday, March 10:

Humor - Old Ghosts ; Old Ghosts ; Cell Phone ; Art Student ; Job Interview ;

Friday, March 9:

Goodies - Charles Schultz Philosophy ; Charles Schultz Philosophy ; Amusing Road Signs ;

Humor - Spaghetti Sauce ; Spaghetti Sauce ; Jar 47 ; What a Hoot ; Digging Holes ;

Wednesday, March 7:

Goodies - Dancing Dots Dancing Dots ; You Are Gifted ; The Monk and the Fox ; God, Speak to Me!

Humor - Management in a Balloon Management in a Balloon ; Teaspoon, Teacup and a Bucket ; Missing Addresses ; Memorial Stone

Monday, March 5:

Goodies - Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus ; Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus ; Know Where You're Going in Life ; Looking for a Year or Two of Free-Room and Board? ; A Humble Spirit ;

Humor - Bob and the Therapist ; Bob and the Therapist ; Angel Ornament ; Musical Sticks ; Magnolia Tree ;

Sunday, March 4:

Goodies - What Does This Illusion Mean? ; What Does This Illusion Mean? ; Enseriousment ; One Minute Wisdom ; Desiderata ;

Saturday, March 3:

Humor - Doctor's Emergency Call ; Doctor's Emergency Call ; The Farmer Wants A Divorce ; Lawyer, Doctor and Engineer ; The Orphaned Rabbit ;

Friday, March 2:

Goodies - The Wooden Bowl ; The Wooden Bowl ; Man With Four Sons ; Tripping Over in Joy ; A Monster to Hug ;

Humor - Public Safety Announcement ; Public Safety Announcement ; Ten Minutes Before the Devil ; Stop N Go ; Naval Birthday ;

Wednesday, February 28:

Goodies - Take Time to Enjoy Animals ; Take Time to Enjoy Animals ; Say "That's Good" ; The Importance Of Gratitude ; Sunset From Space ;

Humor - Hostess and History ; Hostess and History ; Marshmallows and Fire Trucks ; Noisy English Neighbors ; Male Companionship ;

Monday, February 26:

Goodies - Whale Rescue-A Story of Blessing ; Whale Rescue-A Story of Blessing ; Your Body Is In You. You Are Not In It ; Them Good Old Days ; If... ;

Humor - Furniture Disease ; Furniture Disease ; The Wee Irish Pig ; 100th Birthday Party ; Lunch On The Hoof ;

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Classics

Sunday, April 1:

Robert Rabbin: Nothing To Fear My friend Tim Piering recently invited me to join him for a helicopter tour of Los Angeles. Immediately, my mind filled with excuses, searching for just the right one that would allow me to graciously decline. My conscience must have been switched on that day, because I was unable to fabricate an excuse. "If you are not going to go," my conscience said, "then at least tell Tim the truth: you are terrified..."

Thursday, March 29:

Melanie Votaw: Living With Purpose: Finding Joy in a Suffering World Recently I was reading about how people are suffering in the Congo; how girls struggle to be educated in China; how a huge number of people in the world live without safe sanitation, and on and on and on. It seems endless! There is war, hunger, corruption, greed, and incomprehensible pain on our planet. How can I allow myself to feel anything positive when so many people are suffering?

Tuesday, March 27:

Neale Donald Walsch: The Little Soul and The Sun Once upon no time, there was a Little Soul who said to God, "I know who I am!" And God said, "That's wonderful! Who are you?" And the Little Soul shouted, "I'm the Light!" God smiled a big smile. "That's right!" God exclaimed. "You are the Light." The Little Soul was so happy, for it had figured out what all the souls in the Kingdom were there to figure out...

Vidya Ishaya: Why Should I Go Within? (1 comments) When life isn’t flowing, I know what’s needed. It’s time to let it all go, and focus on what’s really important. I go within. What’s so significant about going inside? There are so many important things that have to be done and so little time to do them in. Why should I spend my time "going within," when there’s bills to be paid?

Thursday, March 15:

MSI Ishaya: An Entirely New Way of Living and Being In the collective consciousness of the human race is a new movement. It began as a tiny trickle from a hidden spring, but it is daily expanding in power and passion, becoming a mighty, expanding flood which is restoring innocence and washing away all the limitations of stress and judgment...

Tuesday, March 6:

Dan Joseph: The Tower Once there was a man who was dissatisfied with his life. Although he lived comfortably in a peaceful community of people, he felt that he deserved something better. One day, the man took a long walk. While walking, he stumbled upon a lovely piece of land. It was miles away from the town...

Monday, February 26:

Vidya Ishaya: Finding The Joy In Your Universe (1 comments) As adults, we’ve been taught just how important and significant it is to hold on to our creations and never let them deteriorate. It’s great to build a house or an organization, but it’s not great when it starts to change (and it’s especially bad when there’s a threat of dissolution.) The more we can hold onto "exactly the way things should be," then we’re sure we’re safe and secure. And very happy, right?

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