If food and/or shelter are in question, there is only one issue that a creature can focus upon.
If you have never been without food or shelter for seven days in a row, you have no experience of hunger or homelessness.
In a world where abundance abounds, why have we not solved these issues?
Could it be that we think some people are more important than others?
There would be no refugees or children dying in explosions if there were no war. Do you really believe that war is inevitable? Or is that the story you were told by someone who had something to gain from it? ...
Grace and I recently launched a website describing how we can create A World That Works for Everyone and we do mean EVERYONE. In order to do so, we must have our own lives in order, taking responsibility for their condition and creating the most loving and kind environment we ...
Always, when I travel, I am reminded that this is the last second I have any guarantee of. Buses, Planes, The London Underground. What it brings up is not anxiety, rather a question about whether I have done the best I can do to be awake, present today with those ...
Any belief system (religion, philosophy) that claims to be the only “right way,” is surely wrong. What might change in our lives if we gave up the need to be right? ...
Father Tony DeMello said that the following are the most difficult things to achieve: To include the excluded. To exchange love for hate. To admit when you are wrong. Are you willing to commit your life to mastering these things? ...
Every one of your 10 to 50 trillion cells know how to recreate you down to the smallest detail. That is why a single cell from your skin, hair, blood or fluid of any kind can be used to identify you, definitively. Have you really considered that miracle? ...
The reality is that 7 billion of us are deceived daily. What has deceived us is actually our own minds. Just as a drop of water does not imagine ocean, we do not experience miracle ...
Peace is not a place to get to; it is a place to come from. What will we bring into the world today? ...
Are we grateful for the running water in our homes? Are we grateful for hot water? Are we grateful for the home itself? Are we grateful that our children are not among the 22,000. (Twenty-two Thousand) children who will die today from hunger, poverty and persistent starvation? Are we acting ...
No one is any more beautiful than another. In some cultures if you do not have three-inch wooden implants in your lips and ears, you are considered unattractive. What would happen if we stopped speaking of cosmetics and focused on that which is within us all? ...