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The awesome responses on our “What’s Your Comfort Clothing?” post a few weeks ago got my wheels turning.  Of course–it’s not just clothing that comforts us on bad days.  It’s food, movies, places, music, and more. So I decided I just had to know where Beliefnet’s readers fell on the comfort spectrum.  Do we have…

In the new movie “Cold Souls,” actor Paul Giamatti plays a character whose spirit is represented by a chickpea. In a very funny interview in this week’s New Yorker, he riffs on what various famous people’s souls might look like–Donald Trump is “a nice set of whitewall tires;” Kissinger is a doorknob; Dolly Parton a hummingbird; and the Pope, “…a glass of…

Do you like to wake up and dive into your day, or relish the last few moments of silence before the bustle sets in?  I am definitely in the latter category–whenever possible, I like to ease into my awake-itude, hearing my feet pad on the floor on the way to the bathroom, feeling hot water…

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Throwing a surprise wedding reception for a random couple who just got married at City Hall might qualify as one of the best, most inspiring random acts of kindness ever.  The video below chronicles just such an event, hosted by Improv Everywhere, a group that is usually better known for pranks than for joyful give-aways.…

Cancer nutrition studies are obviously just as subject to flip-flopping as regular nutrition studies. When I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma I was told by a top-shelf cancer nutritionist that I should be adding some meat to my mostly vegetarian diet. Acupuncturists told me the same, the logic being that this is a blood cancer…

“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” — Rainer Maria Rilke For more Inspirational Quotes, click here.

“I think we’ve heard this one already,” I joked to my friend this weekend when “Om Namah Shivaya” started up again. We were at a kirtan festival, and in case you don’t get the lame joke, that particular Sanskrit mantra is used a lot in kirtan, devotional call-and-response chanting with roots in Indian spiritual traditions.…

Well, it’s happened.  It’s two weeks until we move into our new house, and I officially have developed cold feet.  Have we made a terrible mistake?  What were we thinking?  How could we have gone through with this?  So goes the thought-spiral. I have a theory about why moving inherently involves a cold-feet stage.  Here…

If you need a smile this morning, I have a question for you.  Do you remember this one? “It’s such a good feelingTo know you’re aliveIt’s such a happy feelingYou’re growing insideAnd when you wake up, ready to say“I think I’ll make a snappy new day”  (snap! snap!) It’s such a good feelingA very good…
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