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The paradoxical commandments of job search

A career coach shares how his adaptation of Mother Teresa's "Anyway" poem can lead to your future job
GUEST COLUMN: JEFF ROBINSON — In 1968, a poem entitled "The Paradoxical Commandments" was penned by a 19-year-old Harvard University student named Kent M. Keith.
The poem was adapted and re-titled "Anyway" by Mother Teresa and found on the walls [...]

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The pause that refreshes your soul

Egypt lover Kerrie Guy knows: messages from the Divine come via the spaces that surround us
My body is tired
My mind is overloaded
It's time to stop and rest
To allow myself to be decoded
For in the still quiet time alone that I spend
The Divine to me guiding messages does send
And as I listen to this unfailing gifted [...]

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The beautiful surrender: I bow to you

Unhappy childhood experiences with bowing comes full circle as a lawyer of Chinese descent feels pure love
GUEST COLUMN: DANIEL D. WOO — Growing up, I was taught to bow and prostrate myself to my ancestors and certain relatives. An uncle required that his hand be kissed while I was in a kneeling position.
Some recipients of [...]

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The angel in you

Angel essence is everywhere if you have eyes to see and a heart to feel
I may just appear as a single Angel heart
But my essence with all life is an inherent part
I am but one simple petal as part of a whole beautiful rose
Many other life formations does my Angel essence also clothe
Never for one [...]

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Enter our Soul’s Code Contest!

Soul's Code would like YOU to win one of three meaning to pause® bracelets!
The meaning to pause® bracelet was created by Cindy Graham and Krizia Irish in 2008.  When worn, the lovely bracelet provides a gentle reminder every 90 minutes (via a one-second vibration) to slow down, meditate and re-frame your thoughts throughout your hectic day.
To be [...]

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As Sister Sledge said:We are family

As Bono sang: We are one love, one blood, and one life
None among us are born without purpose
None among us are born any better than another
Life has purpose and life serves us each as one
When we learn to serve each other we automatically grow into our purpose in harmony with the ONE PURPOSE OF LIFE
We [...]

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Together at last: sound and meditation

A podcast producer blends mindfulness meditation with her love for sound, to create a new process called "Soundwalking"

GUEST COLUMN: VICTORIA FENNER — A few years ago I took the time to deliberately slow down.   Part of this process involved taking a course on "Mindfulness Meditation" based on the writings and theories of Jon Kabat-Zinn. His books: Wherever [...]

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How I learned to truly love – myself, that is

A daily practice for accepting yourself and getting over perfectionism. For me, it opened up a whole new world for the very first time

GUEST COLUMN: LAURA HOLLICK — Facing yourself can sometimes be the scariest thing in the world.
It can also be the most liberating!
No one is perfect, and the thought of facing yourself can [...]

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Screaming at me? My Buddhist comeback

Daniel Woo is a Seattle lawyer who deals with screaming people. . . in litigation, in road rage, in any time and place. Here he reveals his personal method for not taking it personally.

GUEST COLUMN: DANIEL D. WOO — When my own mind is in turmoil, or when another person is literally screaming at me, I wonder: "What is the source of this emotional tsunami?"

Over the years I have learned that "screaming," and “at me,” are concepts — not empirical reflections of reality. Just look at the video here.

These thought-forms in my mind are "conclusions" that reflect my projections about reality. The feeling that someone is "screaming" changes, completely, when I recognize that the person in front of, or within me, is suffering.

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7 steps to heal your emotional wounds

All of our life experiences — even the "bad" ones — are equal in value. How to expand from "contractions" like loss, hurt and other wounds
GUEST COLUMN: PHYLLIS KING — We are always eager to get on with it — to leave the past behind and to feel the “good” stuff. I understand this so [...]

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