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  • quote: two ways to live

    Byheartwideopen May 7, 2017May 7, 2017

    There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

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  • podcast: how to follow your calling

    Byheartwideopen March 27, 2017March 27, 2017

    Understanding the difference between a calling and ego ambition Satish Kumar says, “A calling is something which you feel in your deepest soul … not from the brain, not from thinking, not from ideas … you just feel it in your deep heart.” “In order to practice spirituality, you don’t have to forsake the world,…

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  • quote: optimism

    Byheartwideopen February 7, 2017February 16, 2017

    I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door — or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. — Satish Kumar

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  • quote: practice

    Byheartwideopen December 2, 2016

    A practice is a habit we have chosen. It is something we have agreed to make a regular feature of our life. Habits develop momentum because the more we repeat them, the more ingrained they become. There are many practices that can support our intention to act for our world. Whether it be meditating, spending…

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  • quote: forgiveness

    Byheartwideopen November 19, 2016

    In forgiving ourselves, we open the door to forgiving others, and in forgiveness, we create the possibility for widespread social change. The very idea of forgiveness always implies that change is possible. — Jeremy Adam Smith

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  • video: becoming indigenous

    Byheartwideopen November 13, 2016

    SCHUMACHER COLLEGE explores what it means to be Indigenous in this short video, “BECOMING INDIGENOUS“.  

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  • quote: optimism

    Byheartwideopen November 10, 2016

    You can’t be an activist and a pessimist, as a pessimist gives up. A true spiritual activist is an optimist. The world is sustained and saved by love. There is no other way to save the world. — Satish Kumar

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  • video: charles eisenstein – the two great stories

    Byheartwideopen October 3, 2016

    CHARLES EISENSTEIN, author and speaker, on the theme of “Separation vs Interbeing“.

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  • quote: love-in-action

    Byheartwideopen September 1, 2016September 1, 2016

    The best hope for an endangered humanity is a grassroots revolution of love-in-action… nothing less will galvanize the devastated heart of humanity.” — Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox

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  • quote: inner revolution

    Byheartwideopen August 17, 2016September 4, 2016

    Outer revolution focuses on confronting someone or something outside ourselves. Inner revolution focuses on confronting ourselves, healing ourselves and then helping co-create a world that is more humane, sustainable and mutually supportive. Our world needs nothing less than an inner revolution. We need to question everything: our personal assumptions, social and political institutions, ways of…

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