The most straightforward way I have been able to experience

So, what good does it serve? Arguably, it serves many, but for our purposes, it seems there is an obvious one. When we enter into the stream of life in a manner that allows us to be completely suffused with all that is around us, we cannot help but feel the distinctions between us begin…

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This overnight opportunity will flow from the celebration

The Benedictine Center in Maplewood is offering Taize prayer opportunities for individuals who want to build lives of kindness, simplicity and reconciliation. Taize is a meditative, ecumenical prayer that includes silence and chanting and is growing in popularity worldwide.According to Sam Rahberg, associate director, “It is a gentle communal prayer that can help dispel stresses…

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They are synthesized paltry imitations of the real thing

It's no wonder that even the thought of certain foods instantly resonates within: I feel different imagining a stuffed-crust pepperoni pizza than I do visualizing an organic salad replete with thin radish slices, crisp snow peas, and Annie's organic dressing.Some foods have become lifeless, “dead” foods. They are synthesized, paltry imitations of the real thing….

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I began a practice of photographing every bed

The hotel rooms and retreat center lodgings were often small and spartan. I experimented with strategies to somehow gain ownership of the rooms, however temporarily, and create a sense of belonging. I hid the ugly paintings and rearranged the furniture. I'd place an aromatherapy candle at my bedside. I expanded my iTunes library. When possible,…

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A nonprofit that sends citizen-scientists on research

And those of us looking to take a vacation that benefits instead of harms the natural environment no longer have to travel to the ends of the Earth to do so. For another type of domestic eco-travel experience, sign up for a trip with Earthwatch, a nonprofit that sends citizen-scientists on environmental research trips with…

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There is credible evidence regarding this question

They explain how the persistence of consciousness beyond the demise of the body means that, in essence, we are not mortal–we continue to exist even when our physical existence has come to an end. This correlates precisely with cutting-edge physics, which posits that things in our plane of time and space are not intrinsically real…

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