Beliefnet.com recently ran an interview with spirital author and teacher Doreen Virtue. Here’s my favorite passage of her “Lightworker’s Prayer,” which is printed in its entirety at the end of the article. “I accept a steady diet of love and joy, knowing that I deserve happiness and health. I willingly and lovingly release all ego…

Speaking of diet, here’s a great guide to how the world’s religious traditions view consuming meat. Pretty fascinating. I personally feel that the meat I eat must be humanely raised and butchered. And I’m getting stronger in my resolve not to eat conventionally raised beef and chicken in restaurants, whereas in the past there have…

It is nice that you are reading me. But when you stop, will you be going off to do something you don’t want to do? As I was posting that Joseph Campbell quote yesterday, I looked over his foundation’s website. And I was reminded of the Campbell story about the father telling his son to…

Yesterday, I took the Chattering boys (ages nine-and-a-half and 12) to see “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary about Al Gore’s lecture on global warming. Midway through, the nine-year-old began to sniff, wipe away tears, and then sob in great heaves as aerial views of various cities, including New York, were shown flooding one day in…

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