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The Theory Of Jerks

Submitted by Friday on Saturday, December 17, 2016 9:57 AM
pixabay.com Jerks: A Field Guide Eric Schwitzgebel Picture the world through the eyes of the jerk. The line of people in post office is a mass of unimportant fools; it’s a felt injustice that you must wait while they bumble with their requests. The flight attendant is not a potentially interesting person with her own Read More…
What Makes Us Human?

Submitted by Just Human on Friday, December 16, 2016 12:09 AM
pixabay.com What makes us human? What sets us apart from other species? Is it self-awareness or free moral agency, conscience, or the capacity to imagine? All of these characteristics are clearly connected with human consciousness. But what’s not clear is how the human mind operates. What makes us uniquely human? It’s more than you might think. Read More…
Living Truly

Submitted by Dr. Arati Mishra on Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:21 AM
pixabay.com Living truly is the need of the hour. It is the aim of all life. The reign of Truth is decreed. When we collaborate with it, ultimately only health can flourish. The two most important moments of our life, I have heard, are when one is born and when one finds out why. As Read More…
The Power Of Silence In Spirituality

Submitted by Namaste on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 9:25 AM
pixabay.com Silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation. In order to hear that language, we must learn to be still and to rest in God. — Thomas Keating Communication is an art, yet silence is the basis of spirituality. When you are in silence you can connect to the universe. Yet it Read More…
Green Messages

Submitted by Gideon Aedrini on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:02 AM
pixabay.com Holly, Ivy and other greenery such as Mistletoe were originally used in pre-Christian times to help celebrate the Winter Solstice Festival and ward off evil spirits and to celebrate new growth. When Christianity came into Western Europe, some people wanted to keep the greenery, to give it Christian meanings but also to ban the Read More…
Dimian The Peasant

Submitted by Sasha on Monday, December 12, 2016 11:53 AM
pixabay.com Stories that teach moral lessons are known by many name, allegory – which has abstract or spiritual meaning, parable – a story designed to illustrate or teach some truth or religious principle, fable – a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature Read More…
Karma Is You

Submitted by Zephyr on Monday, December 12, 2016 12:10 AM
pixabay.com Good Karma. Bad Karma. Karma's a bitch. Let karma take care of that. When you read "Karma" what do you think of? What comes around goes around? God will reward or punish you for what you do? I think the general belief is that the idea of karma represents some type of cosmic justice. Read More…
Signs

Submitted by Holmes on Saturday, December 10, 2016 1:06 AM
pixabay.com A twice told tale handed down to my brothers and myself from our half crazed Uncle Ned who told us one of these gems every Christmas … One morning in early September, the Chief of a local Native American Tribe was approached by the tribal elders and asked if the upcoming winter would be Read More…
Obsessed With Self-Improvement? Try Self-Acceptance

Submitted by SALAAM – Presider on Friday, December 9, 2016 9:58 AM
pixabay.com “No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.” ~ Robert Holden Many of us are driven by an excessive need for self-improvement. Surely, being focused on self-improvement has many positives. That’s how we strive to become a better professional, parent or spouse. We deepen our self-awareness and reform our limiting beliefs Read More…
Hey There – You With Your Nose In The Air

Submitted by Karmic Parody on Thursday, December 8, 2016 3:20 PM
pixabay.com The Psychology Of Self-Righteous Indignation The term "self-righteous" is defined by yourdictionary.com as "filled with or showing a conviction of being morally superior, or more righteous than others; smugly virtuous" Beautiful. That's exactly it. Not virtuous, but smugly virtuous. It is about feeling superior to someone else. Most of us are most easily tempted into Read More…