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It’s Not Helping 

What can you do when compassion shows up as frustration? Karen Kissel Wegela on how to be present with our own helplessness. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Only the Lonely 

When Meg Federico helped start up a program for lonely older people and their caregivers, she didn’t know what she was getting into: a goofy, loving atmosphere where people come to life and living in the present is the only option. Read More 

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  • August 25, 2010
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Dead Silence 

Have we chosen numbness over social and political involvement? Author Margaret Wheatley on silence as a choice, and the cost of not speaking up. Read More 

  • Margaret Wheatley
  • August 25, 2010
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The Rabbi, the Buddhist, the activist… 

... the businesswoman, and the writer Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary, reconnects with her childhood circle to explore the spiritual quest of a generation. Read More 

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  • August 25, 2010
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Thoughts from a Catholic Hermitage 

Pico Iyer, author of Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign, on the time he spends at a Catholic hermitage, a place by the sea where creation unites with the light inside. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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Mind, Matter, or God? 

As the so-called new atheists go toe-to-toe with religious literalists, where do meditators stand? Barry Boyce reports on the middle way embracing both reason and the reality beyond it. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 25, 2010
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