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Though I’ve never ordered anything from Soft Surroundings, I love the spiritual look of the clothes. “My time. My place. My self” is the company’s motto. Every outfit is so appealing to me. I pass on the link since I have the feeling that a lot of you are also into what one reader called…

Western Buddhist meditation teacher Lama Surya Das publishes a newsletter of inspirational quotes. The most recent ones contained Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support our needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and…

Here’s a brief snipped from Beliefnet’s article on the Christian undertones of the Superman story on the origins of Superman: Jews have often claimed the archetypal superhero as their own. Superman sprang from the imaginations of two Jewish cartoonists, and scholars have compared him to the golem myth—the supernatural creature who vanquishes the Jews’ enemies…

Where I live, the fireflies only seem to appear for an hour every night during the first three weeks of July. After that, I don’t know where they go. Fireflies are the most saintly bugs. I am filled with awe and feel lucky each time I see them. How can such amazing creatures exist? The…

Heavy rains here in New York. And after the rain, the weeding! It seems the weeds in the Chattering family garden are growing two inches a day. “Weeds want to tell a story. They are Nature’s way of teaching us, and their story is interesting,” writes Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer in “Weeds and What they Tell,”…

God does not die on that day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reasoning. —Dag Hammarskjold, (1905-1961) Swedish political leader and Secretary General of The United…

“Oh by the way,” I said to Mr. Chattering this morning as he was putting on his socks, “When the time comes, don’t take Chattering Son Number One off to the drugstore to buy him a commercial deodorant.” “What, my Brut can’t be his Brut?” said Mr. Chattering, looking shocked. I think Mr. Chattering’s father…

Yoginis unite! I love these mother-daughter photographs (scroll down a bit) posted on the yoga mom blog “Facing Inward.”

I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember when Ralph Nader offered congressional testimony on the American hot dog and called it a “torpedo of death.” The year was 1968. If you continue to have doubts about whether or not conventionally processed and preserved meats aren’t great for you, especially if you’re a child…

I wrote the rabbi today at the synagogue where my kids go to Hebrew School, and told him I’d help to organize a summer teen “Peace Camp” like this one. Sounds terrific, doesn’t it? In the course of the week, the kids celebrate peace traditions in world religions and go on field trips to Hindu…
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