I just came across this lovely quote from Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron about meditation and accepting ourselves, craziness and all. “When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they’re going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.…

ca Welcome to Foodie Friday. Mmm, chocolate. Mmm, raw chocolate? As many vegans and raw foodists know, the latest trend in chocolate is going raw. The idea is that raw chocolate has more antioxidants, more enzymes and more mineral than the cooked chocolate you’ll find in regular bars. The problem being, it’s so dang expensive.…

This morning Good Morning America featured Beliefnet’s newest contributor, SQuire Rushnell, the author most recently of “When God Winks on New Beginnings,” and a former ABC exec. He talks about how coincidences are gifts in our lives we need to soak in. Those goosebump moments when you say, “What are the odds?” He says it’s like when a relative fondly…

That’s what a couple of people have asked me lately. It’s a bad sign that my mind goes blank and I just blink, right? Um, fun? Ohhh, fuuun. And a friend just posted to Facebook: “X is tired of being so hard on herself. She would like to be responsible, organized, and still have fun. There…

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