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I’m impressed with what I’ve read in Mariel Hemingway’s new book “Healthy Living from the Inside Out: Every Woman’s Guide to Real Beauty, Renewed Energy, and a Radiant Life.” This seems a cut above the exercise/diet bibles by other personalities. I was going to say this book is more earnest than most until I recognized…

Do you ever find dimes in your jewelry box, pocket change piled on your dresser, or damp dollar bills crumpled in the washing machine? This weekend, I walked around the house gathering all the bits of abandoned U.S. currency I could find. Then I got the kids to help me sort the coins so we…

May the roots of suffering diminish. May warfare, violence, neglect, indifference, and addictions also decrease. May the wisdom and compassion of all beings increase, now and in the future. May we clearly see all the barriers we erect between ourselves and others to be as insubstantial as our dreams. May we appreciate the great perfection…

I’ve been sitting on my feelings about The Atlantic Monthly’s take on trendy yoga culture for a couple of days now. The piece is not available online without a subscription, but here’s a chat about today’s yoga scene with author Hanna Rosin, a talented religion writer who has worked for The New Yorker, The Washington…

Readers sent in such interesting descriptions of their energetic exchanges with deceased loved ones that I’ll just run them here. “The night that my beloved grandmother died in 1993,” writes CM reader Nancy, “I left the hospital and went to my mother’s house to comfort her. As I approached my mother’s house, I felt a…

Today Beliefnet launched a survey for parents on what it’s like to raise kids with religious and/or spiritual values. This quiz was composed in partnership with Parents magazine for an upcoming article on spiritual parenting. Click that link and complete the survey if you’re a parent; it only takes a few minutes. There’s one question…

“Place your burdenat the feet of the Lord of the Universewho accomplishes everything.Remain all the time steadfast in the heart,in the Transcendental Absolute.God knows the past, present, and futureHe will determine the future for youand accomplish the workWhat is to be done will be doneat the proper time. Don’t worry.Abide in the heart and surrender…

Hey guys, you’re going to love Jeff Martinhauk, a liberal Christian blogger and seminarian I discovered while Googling around last night. Martinhauk’s blog is called “Leaning Towards Justice,” and he writes on all manner of religious and spiritual topics with the belief that when you broadly regard human history, you will see that people are…

This week a 50-year-old construction worker and Navy veteran named Wesley Autrey saved a man who had fallen onto the New York subway tracks by leaping onto the tracks himself and pressing the fallen stranger down into the one foot high space left beneath the oncoming subway car (which did indeed speed over them). Everyone…

Our 10-year-old Chattering son appears to be a synesthete, which in his case means that he “sees” letters in color and perceives the taste of foods on a “mental” grid or graph. A fair share of famous artists and composers have had synesthesia, a involuntary sensory irregularity in which some of the five senses cross…
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