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Hey, I got a great new way to humorously sign off spiritual correspondence. This one comes from reader Glenys Livingstone down in Australia. Blissings! “With Love and Blissings” is nice too. You’ll find my original post with dozens of great sign-offs from readers here.

This is sweet. It runs three minutes. What would you ask God if you could?

Oh boy, this Trappist monastery down in South Carolina (where my parents once went on a spiritual retreat) has been busted big time for alleged cruelty to the chickens that produce the eggs the abbey sells to support itself. Birds are crowded, starved to stimulate egg production, and left to flap around and slowly die…

This week’s New York magazine has an amazing article that describes what two models, a creative director, and a magazine accessories editor eat during the frenzy of “fashion week,” when runway shows, and meetings with designers become all-important, stress-filled activities for these people. Each food journal is fascinating in its own way. The 21-year-old female…

The Sam Harris/Andrew Sullivan blogalogue on faith has covered exceedingly complex material. Could you describe your beliefs as articulately? I could not. Here’s the conclusion of Harris’s latest letter, in which he seems to deliver body blows to Sullivan’s defense of faith (scroll down). And yet, I am strangely not persuaded. The person arguing against…

An anonymous reader (whose home I suspect has pretty good Feng Shui) writes: “I don’t understand Feng Shui. I can’t grab the concept of placing items in a certain order or arrangement to bring one peace of mind… I’m not into sparseness. I like things to be neat and in their place but I have…

Britney, get into a rehabilitation program you can stick with! Read the “promises” of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous (from pages 83-84 of The Big Book). They supplement the famous Twelve Steps. If anyone out there has “worked the program,” chime in and tell us if AA’s promises came true for you. Here they are…

While most of us are receptive to “elder wisdom,” there’s never been a grand design for harvesting it. Unless you have a grand- or great-grandparent still living that you visit, there’s not often much access to the thoughts of our wisest, most elderly citizens. But now, there’s ElderWisdomCircle.org! Last Sunday’s Washington Post ran an article…

The Spring 2007 issue of Buddhadharma magazine tells me something I’d completely missed: that last November’s midterm election not only brought the nation’s first Muslim to Congress, but also ushered in two Buddhists (both Democrats): Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, and Hank Johnson of Georgia. Also in this month’s “Ask the Teachers” column, Zenkei Blanche Hartman…

Bach Flower Remedies are such subtle and nontoxic healing potions, you can experiment with them on your own and find the best mixture by taking this online questionnaire. The 38 essences are said to work on an energetic and emotional level, helping to do things like calm fear, ease grief, and eliminate lethargy. None of…
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