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Blessings for the Earth: Celebrate, Protect, and Give Thanks

By Pierre Pradervand
Pierre Pradervand

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Pierre Pradervand invites us to honor nature’s beauty, power, and sacred role in our lives. This Earth Day, and every day, offer blessings of gratitude and love to the planet. 

Why Kindness is the Best Gift

By Jude Bijou
Jude Bijou

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Kindness is the greatest gift you can give—to yourself and others. Whether through positivity, praise, or gratitude, small acts of giving kindness create more love, connection, and joy in everyday life. Learn how to embrace kindness as a daily practice and experience the power of generosity.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday: Shifting from Gratitude to Greed

By Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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Explore the stark contrast between the gratitude celebrated on Thanksgiving and the consumerism of Black Friday. This piece examines how these consecutive days reflect broader societal values and challenges us to consider the environmental and personal impacts of our consumption habits, urging a reevaluation of what truly brings happiness.

Giving Thanks by Giving Blessings

By Pierre Pradervand
Pierre Pradervand

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Discover the profound impact of "Cultivating Daily Gratitude and Blessings" in your life. This article encourages embracing gratitude and blessings daily to transform personal and spiritual growth. Learn to appreciate life's abundance, face challenges with gratitude, and spread blessings that uplift others. This approach promises a richer, more fulfilled existence by focusing on the positive impacts and opportunities each day brings.

Giving Back through Service: An Ancient Spiritual Path

By Ray Cappo
Ray Cappo

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I was leading a big group of US and European students through holy places in northern India and bringing my ten-year-old daughter for her second trip. For a kid, it was an adventure to another world. This annual pilgrimage revealed profound spiritual experiences and the joy of discovering new depths of spirituality.

Making a Difference: Taking a Step Right Where You Are

By Nicola Amadora PhD
Nicola Amadora PhD

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Spiritual awakening is lopsided, if it doesn’t lead to engaging and taking action in the world. But, sometimes we think that the only way to make a difference is by doing something grand, and then we discount those smaller acts, or do nothing instead.

Start with Service to the Common Good -- You Then Will Unlock Your Full Potential

By Mónica Esgueva
Mónica Esgueva

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As Martin Luther King once said: “Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. You don’t even have to make your subjects and verbs agree to serve. You only require a heart full of grace.” Grace arises when we act with others on behalf of the world.

How To Celebrate Earth’s “Birthday” and Make It About Her, Not Us

By Shahid Naeem, Columbia University
Shahid Naeem, Columbia University

Let's Make Earth Day About Earth, Not Us

Today is Earth Day, but it’s one of the most confused and misguided celebratory days of the year. The UN refers to this day as the “International Mother Earth Day,” but what is it we’re supposed to celebrate?

On Water and the Interconnection of All Things

By Pierre Pradervand
Pierre Pradervand

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We need to embrace the planet and its inhabitants with the same care and concern we feel for ourselves. There are no “others” on this planet, no strangers. We are all partners, fellow explorers of the realms of life on a small and already overpopulated and overexploited planet.

Reciprocity Restores the Intrinsic Joy of Our True Being

By Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss

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Our vulnerability reminds us that we are never truly independent, but always exist in a field of reciprocity. Thus reciprocity is a deep spiritual principle.

How to Empathize Without Taking on People’s Stress

By Judith Orloff, M.D.
Judith Orloff, M.D.

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A dread that many of my patients share is: “What if people ask more than I can give? I feel guilty if I say “‘no.’”  Here are five strategies to support your healthy giving...

Female Gift Bringers: More Than Mrs. Claus

By Ellen Evert Hopman
Ellen Evert Hopman

Female Gift Bringer St Lucy

In Britain and the United States, we are used to “Father Christmas” and “Santa Claus” but other countries and cultures celebrate female gift bringers.

Five Pitfalls of Being Stuck in Your Helper Pattern

By Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D.
Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D.

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There are five deep-seated, albeit outdated, beliefs that have kept your helper pattern firmly anchored in your daily life.

A "Not Enough" Attitude: Not Enough Time, Stuff, Money, Friends, Opportunities...

By Jude Bijou
Jude Bijou

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Do you believe if you had or did something else -- got married, earned more, were thinner, danced better, or had more time -- you'd finally relax and feel okay?

Uplift Yourself, and Others, with Gratitudes

By Jude Bijou
Jude Bijou

a young boy standing with his arms raised in victory

If you are feeling a bit "dry”, there is a chance you're taking things in life for granted -- health, friends, family, wealth, or life itself. You're likely focusing on what’s missing. 

Suffering, Seen and Unseen -- Holding Suffering in a Compassionate Embrace

By Janet Adler
Janet Adler

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Each one turns or does not turn into the suffering, grows or does not grow, recovers or does not recover. Completely subjective, comparison is meaningless.

Tuning in to a Daily Practice of Gratitude: The Gratitude Bank

By Bill Philipps
Bill Philipps

a gold piggy bank with a stack of golden coins

To make gratitude part of who we are requires our conscious attention throughout each day. Eventually, it becomes routine, and we naturally gravitate toward grateful thoughts.

Something We All Have in Common: Mothers

By Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

a woman looking out a window

One thing everyone on the planet (animals as well),have in common is that we all have. or had. a mother. Not one of us was born from a father's womb, or from our own womb

Rewiring Your Brain with Gratitude

By Steven Washington
Steven Washington

Rewiring Your Brain with Gratitude

Practicing gratitude has positive effects on our body, mind, and social connections; it improves our health and well-being in numerous measurable and immeasurable ways. 

Why Practice Being Happy for the Success of Others?

By Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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In today's society, it can be challenging to be happy for someone else's success.  

Is Gratitude the Missing Ingredient in Our Life and Our World?

By David C. Bentall
David C. Bentall

a picture of Planet Earth with a baby linked to it by an umbilical cord

Gratitude is like a new lens through which to view the world and our part in it.

How We Are Kept from the Good Life and Community by Consumerism

By Cormac Russell and John McKnight
Cormac Russell and John McKnight

symbolism for community working hand and hand

Consumerism carries two related messages that dampen the impulse to discover hidden treasure in our own neighborhoods.

Effective Altruism: What Is It and Why Two Different Camps?

By Jacob Bauer
Jacob Bauer

hands holding out US dollars

The movement was inspired in part by the philosopher Peter Singer, who has argued for an obligation to help those in extreme poverty since the 1970s. 

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