We might think of community as something external to our life, something extra. We have our car, our home, our job, and then we have our neighbors, our coworkers: our community. But community is not just the people who live next door or who work in the same office, it is also the people who pave our roads, who work at the power plant, who grow the lettuce we eat and truck it to the store. Community is every connection we have with the world around us that sustains our way of life.Nov 22
Thursday
The Nature of Community
An exploration of our deep connections to one another, and to our own compassionate hearts
by Aaron de Long
We might think of community as something external to our life, something extra. We have our car, our home, our job, and then we have our neighbors, our coworkers: our community. But community is not just the people who live next door or who work in the same office, it is also the people who pave our roads, who work at the power plant, who grow the lettuce we eat and truck it to the store. Community is every connection we have with the world around us that sustains our way of life.
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8 responses - Posted 11.06.18
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16 responses - Posted 10.01.18
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3 responses - Posted 09.30.18
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no responses - Posted 09.29.18
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On the Shoulders of Giants
no responses - Posted 09.29.18
A Harvest of Peace talk on themes of climate change and environmental activism by David Takahashi First I need to acknowledge that the work we are doing here began quite a while ago. We are standing on the shoulders of giants. I have to acknowledge my wife, Emily, ...continue
no responses - Posted 09.29.18
A Harvest of Peace talk on themes of climate change and environmental activism by David Takahashi First I need to acknowledge that the work we are doing here began quite a while ago. We are standing on the shoulders of giants. I have to acknowledge my wife, Emily, ...continue
no responses - Posted 09.26.18
A second excerpt from the book subtitled A Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust by Ellen Korman Mains It would be dark when I arrived in Zamość, a place I’d never been and where I knew no one. I didn’t even have a reservation for the night. It wasn’t confidence ...continue
no responses - Posted 09.24.18
A Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust; excerpt from a book by Ellen Korman Mains The center was called Tail of the Tiger then. When I returned from my second visit, my mother went to the door of my parents’ bedroom and called my father out, like a foot-soldier ...continue
no responses - Posted 09.22.18
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no responses - Posted 09.20.18
Musings on the body/mind relationship in a larger context by Larry Barnett A great deal of attention has been paid to the workings of mind, that curiously self-conscious and often self-absorbed entity we take to be who we are in the world. The widely-held presumption is that mind ...continue
2 responses - Posted 09.18.18
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1 response - Posted 09.16.18
A contemplation of the current state of teaching and learning by Jasmin Stoffer I am an educator. It has been just over 6 years since I started teaching, and I know I still have a lot to learn. My career choice inspires me, frustrates me, encourages me to be ...continue
9 responses - Posted 09.14.18
A few thoughts on how and why we can forgive others — and ourselves by Shastri Christine Heming I have been thinking and reading about forgiveness lately. What is it? Where do we find it? How does it come about? A lot has been said about forgiveness, represented in religious and self-help ...continue
no responses - Posted 09.12.18
Looking at our smart phones through the lens of meditation by Phil Beatty There is nothing quite like the iPhone. It is the most popular, most essential and most highly praised artifact in our hi-tech world. Actually, though I’m using the term “iPhone,” I actually mean smart phones ...continue