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“In every soul who seeks to reach the truth, there must, at one time, be present this experience of standing in awe before the universe. Otherwise our thinking will attain merely to what is correct, but never to the truth in its reality… Someone may be the most astute thinker, but if he has never…

The July-August Utne Reader publishes four articles on soy, attacking the hot subject from different angles. Starhawk, aaugh, I don’t want to shake your faith or heavy soy habits, but, really, take another look. None of these articles make me want to eat much more than my trusty bowls of miso. Soy milk manufacturers must…

Lama Surya Das discloses how the world often offers us relationships with closet Bodhisattvas, precious people of tremendous depth and kindness, here. We just have to know how to see them when they’re right in front of us, and appreciate them for all they are. The article is excerpted from LSD’s latest, excellent book “Buddha…

Holistic Spirituality editor Valerie Reiss files a report on the fun, eco-reinforcing findings she collected at the recent Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability convention here.

Yesterday, my childrens’ swimming teacher cancelled a lesson because she had awful stomach cramps. Twenty-four hours later, she is better. It wasn’t food poisoning, she says. She’s suspecting it had something to do with the fact that her dog and cats were treated with the common flea/tick-repelling ointment Frontline yesterday, and she’d been petting them…

You’ve got to read this piece from yesterday’s New York Times: “Buying Into The Green Movement: Eco-friendly shopping may be fashionable, but critics argue it won’t reduce global warming.” This had to be said, and writer Alex Williams reports the piece evenly. We’re fooling ourselves when we think that shopping green alone–buying organic sheets or…

Well, I’m sure your July 4th plans have shaped up by now. You’re going to wave the flag, praise our president, and feel proud as hell. Not. Or not exactly. I know you are a complete patriot though, marinated in the gratitude that comes from being free. You’re someone wanting to make meaning out of…

This comes from a site of Catholic prayers, but you can adapt it to suit your religious system. O Glorious Guardian Angel of the United States, to whom God has entrusted the care of our beloved country, we honor you and thank you for the care and protection you have given to this great nation…

I failed to watch Larry King interview the new-sprung Paris Hilton last night, but here’s what the New York Times said. Sounds like Paris’s resolve to reform will wear off with time. But I’m still rooting for her. After she said she read the Bible in her cell every day, [King] asked her to name…

Here’s an excellent paper written by Gisela Webb, a comparative religion scholar, on the spiritual dimensions and lessons of Alzheimer’s–for sufferer and caretaker. I have learned from the Alzheimer’s ward the value of realizing that we all are going to die — that, indeed, we are dying — and so long as we are conscious,…
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