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Thomas Berry and the Earth Community

Forgiveness

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

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Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected'

This is Your Brain on Bliss

After 2,000 years of practice, Buddhist monks know that one secret to happiness is simply to put your mind to it.

What is happiness, and how can we achieve it?

Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

Read the full article here... http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/sustainable-happiness/this-is-your-brain-on-bliss

Clinging Causes the Pain

Genuine love and kindness is desperately needed in this world. It comes from appreciating the object, and rejoicing in the object, wanting the object to be happy and well, but holding it lightly, not tightly. And this goes for possessions too. You are in an extremely materialistic society in which the possession of more and bigger and better is held up as the total criteria for being happy.

Read the full post here... http://www.ijourney.org/?tid=658