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Thank you, President Bush by Paolo CoelhoI wrote the letter below on March 9, 2003, ten days before the invasion of Iraq. It is the most widely read text I have written, having been published in the leading newspapers across the world and all over the Internet: close to 500 million people have read it.

The war is now entering its 6th year, and over 4,000 American soldiers have lost their lives, together with an indefinite number of Iraqis. According to the CNN (March 24, 2008), "estimates of the Iraqi death toll range from about 80,000 to the hundreds of thousands, with another 2 million forced to leave the country and 2.5 million displaced within Iraq, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees”.

The  Socaratic Triple Filter Test for Gossip!In nearly all languages there is some sort of saying to the effect of "Nobody likes a gossip".

Although there is nothing wrong with talking about other people, it is how we talk about them that really matters. It is so easy to fall into a pattern of unconscious criticism when describing the actions of others, especially when they are not there. Here is a beautiful little story to illustrate the power and importance of how we talk about other people.

Have you done the Compassion Exercise yet? What results did you get?This is a 5 Step Compassion Exercise. It can be practiced anywhere, at any time. It is not dangerous. It will not embarass you. This is one of thirty exercises that can be found in ReSurfacing®:Techniques for Exploring Consciousness, by Harry Palmer. 
 
Honesty with ones self leads to compassion for others. OBJECTIVE:  To increase the amount of compassion in the world.  EXPECTED RESULT:  A personal sense of peace.
Appreciating life's ups and downs by Charlie BadenhopDo you sometimes lose control of your emotional equilibrium because you feel you're being victimized by circumstances that are out of your control? If so, you'll likely find this story to be of help.
Deva Daricha

The Role of Breath

What we will be exploring together is very much the heart of the mystery. ItÙs to do with spirit and embodiment. Its to do with consciousness and time. ItÙs to do with that space between two breaths. The first breath and the last breath that we call incarnation, which we experience as three dimension body consciousness. So this is what we are exploring.
What happens when you die?  by Thich Nhat HanhThis is a transcription from a talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh during a retreat with five hundred people in Hong Kong on 15 May 2007 (apologies for any inaccuracies of mine -- Editor)

In order to answer what happens us when we die, we need to answer another question  what happens when we are alive?
What is happening now to us? In English we say we are but its proper to say we are becoming because things are becoming. Were not the same person in two consecutive minutes.
Jeremy Youst on Breathwork.be "I Am that I Am.”  As you speak this proclamation you reconnect with the Sacred Circle of Life, you voice a powerful prayer of your unique existence, which is the essence of Divine Breath. With this first tender movement of awareness, you breathe for that which inspires you, for that which gives you life.  You become pure ceremony re-enacting the greatness and emptiness of All That Is.  You breathe from the deepest stillness, from the darkest void.  You enter as the "Word of God”, a bare speck of divine sound uttered in deafening silence.   You are spoken into being.  Woven through earth and time into a human form of biology, you are a love song, a divine whim, hurled out from profound immobility into eons and eons of change and evolution.
During my medical career, through my experiences as a hospice medical director, I have spent a great deal of time reflecting upon death as it occurs in our modern society, pondering both the problems and the promises of this final, universal passage.