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Our friends over at EnlightenNext magazine, run by spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, spent last week at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia. This event has been happening every five years since 1993 in countries around the world. The idea is to bring together people of many, many faiths and promote dialogue and understanding…

‘Tis the season where “jingle all the way” can become “jangled nerves” in a flash–or the twinkle of a Christmas light, or the flicker of a Hanukkah candle, or….oy, I’m exhausted already. Here’s my general inventory of things that stress us out during the holidays (not necessarily in rank order): 1.  How to pay for…

Last week I took a most lovely yoga workshop than ran every morning. In it, the teacher asked us again and again to notice when we got so stressed we actually stopped breathing. Like the Buddhist-ish instructor she is, she emphasized the importance of simply NOTICING, not instantly following up with self-flaggelation. Then one student…

If you haven’t seen it, definitely check out this classic video from poet/teacher Taylor Mali. A lawyer asks him at a dinner party what he makes as a teacher and he has the best answer ever: 
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