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Sowing Peace from the heart

Sowing Peace from the heart

Narayanan Krishnan, of Madurai, India, gave up his career as a 5-star executive chef to bring love, food & peace to the hungry and abandoned on the streets of India. According to Wikipedia, “Krishnan founded his nonprofit Akshaya Trust in 2003. Every day, he wakes up at 4 a.m., cooks a simple hot meal...

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There’s an opportunity every minute…

There’s an opportunity every minute…

Wow! There truly is an opportunity every minute: an opportunity to sow peace within, at home and at work. Today, I’m really thinking about the “within” part because someone mentioned alienating others in a recent blog comment. That is really a “within” matter first, even though it seems to be a very “without” matter...

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Shut up, will ya?

Shut up, will ya?

Sometimes, the best thing to say is nothing.

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10-10-10. We love the idea of alignment, but,…..????

10-10-10. We love the idea of alignment, but,…..????

© Rhoberta Shaler, PhD www.Rhoberta.com Today is an auspicious date. In some traditions, it is the day of Triple Happiness. Three perfect tens. There are also special “fives” this month as there are five Fridays, five Saturdays and five Sundays. Apparently, this only happens every 823 years. It’s so cosmic! Auspicious? Magical? Momentous? Perhaps,...

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What do you mean you “have a right?”

What do you mean you “have a right?”

© Rhoberta Shaler, PhD www.Rhoberta.com I was working with a couple recently who are having big questions about staying together. At the moment, their relationship is like a teeter-totter: one is up, the other down but seldom is there equilibrium and a meeting in the middle. As we worked through one of the myriad...

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Oh, patience, grasshopper!

Oh, patience, grasshopper!

© Rhoberta Shaler, PhD www.Rhoberta.com I just had to laugh at myself a couple of days ago. I made a cell phone call to the most important man in my life while driving sixty-five miles an hour down the San Diego freeway. He didn’t answer. I left voicemail. Here’s where the laugh came: I...

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Peace in the world is only possible when you sow peace in your world

Peace in the world is only possible when you sow peace in your world

Are you creating world peace in your world? If not, it is highly unlikely that it will be found anywhere else. Think on these thing....

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Sowing peace can mean stepping in where you might not want to…

Sowing peace can mean stepping in where you might not want to…

So many opportunities present themselves to sow peace. Here's what happened to me today as I drove down a quiet California street. What would you have done?

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