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Dark Side Of Empathy

Michael Ventura

Empathy that connects, that builds, that heals requires a code of ethics. It requires restraint. It requires trust. It asks the empathizer not just to understand others but also to honor what that und...

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3K reads, 8 comments

Circles And Dots

Ameeta Kaul

The teacher drew a large circle on a paper pasted to a board. Then he turned to his students and said, This is the great circle of being. Nobody and nothing is outside it. The students listene...

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6K reads, 6 comments

Why DIY Devotion Doesn't Work

Sumit Nagar

We are not seekers anymore—we are shoppers, not always really shopping, perhaps just window shopping. In an age where attention spans have shrunk, just enough to handle the brevity ...

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8K reads, 48 comments

There Is Faith In Humor

Pope Francis

Life inevitably has its sadnesses, which are part of every path of hope and every path toward conversion. But it is important to avoid wallowing in melancholy at all costs, not to let it embitter the ...

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8K reads, 10 comments

End Of Violence

J. Krishnamurti

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organiz...

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6K reads, 17 comments

The Fish, The Net, And The Water

Mauro Bergonzi

Once the fish said to the turtle: “I have heard about a huge thing that is called ‘the ocean.’ Does it really exist? I am looking around in search of it, but I can only see sand, ...

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6K reads, 11 comments

To Pray Without Ceasing

RM French

On the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost I went to church to say my prayers there during the liturgy. The first Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians was being read, and among other words I hear...

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5K reads, 16 comments

Don't Leave Me Raw

Omid Safi

A woman was standing over a fire, having poured a handful of dry, hardened chickpeas into water. As the water warmed up to the point of boiling, her mind began to wander. Then she heard a voice: ...

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6K reads, 16 comments

Unexpected Strength

Author Unknown

A 10-year-old boy decided to study judo despite the fact that he had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. The boy began lessons with an old judo master. The boy was doing well, so he co...

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7K reads, 15 comments

We See Into The Life Of Things

William Wordsworth

These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to th...

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6K reads, 6 comments

Inner Voice Vs. Ego Voice

David Sudar

I was recently talking to a friend who was laboring over whether or not to move in with her boyfriend.  She had previously lived with a partner and it didn’t go well.  She ha...

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9K reads, 14 comments

Inter-faith To Inter-Pilgrim

Ravi Ravindra

I have wished to engage in what may be called an inter-pilgrim dialogue. In my judgment, there is something wrong with interfaith dialogues. When the East-West or interfaith dialogues are too much bou...

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8K reads, 9 comments
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