From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Make Peace: Declare Your Personal Amnesty

By Mary Jaksch Let’s establish our own program of peace and reconciliation, and grant amnesty to all the people we resent and have grievances against. Let us free our prisoners. Let us also let go of our regrets, our losses and failures, our hang-ups and mistakes and handicap, our bad luck and unfortunate experiences. ~ [...]

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Economic Crisis Getting You Down? Try Generosity

By Mary Jaksch The daily news is depressing: more people out of work; more people hungry; more people in despair. An instinctive response would be to hunker down and look after number one. Yes, you could do that, and in doing so you would fan your fears and feelings of insecurity. There is another way [...]

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Do Ghosts Exist?

By Mary Jaksch Have you ever seen a ghost? A while ago, I was sitting in a cafe, wondering what to write. Two woman asked to share my table. I waited until they were sipping their Latte. Then I addressed them. “Excuse me, can I please ask you something?” They nodded encouragingly, ready to give [...]

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The Power of Less

By Mary Jaksch Most personal growth books give me a head-ache. They’re so demanding. But not Leo Babauta’s new book The Power of Less. (This is Leo Babauta of Zen Habits fame). Leo Babauta leads you through the process of change like a friend taking you by the hand when things get tough. Let me [...]

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How Being in a Rush Kills Beauty

By Mary Jaksch Imagine that it’s 7:45 in the morning and you’re rushing to get to work.  You’re preoccupied with thoughts about the coming day: the calls you need to make, the emails you need to write, the meetings you need to schedule for the overdue project. When you are in a rush, how do [...]

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Why We Should Fail Whenever Possible

A Guest post by David Pierce I’m wired to be afraid to fail, and to avoid failure at all costs. I think we all are. We somehow harbor the belief that if we attempt something and fail, that we are somehow less, and that everyone we know is making fun of us behind our back. [...]

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Wisdom: The Forgotten Dimension?

By Mary Jaksch Wisdom – what is it and how do you acquire it? According to Prof. Barry Schwartz, Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swathmore College, wisdom means having moral will and skill. Wisdom means having the moral will to do right by other people, and to have the moral skill to [...]

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