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And God Then Told Joshua to Slay Every Child in Jericho
by James Altucher on Jul 10, 2011
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Where are the billionaires? ~ Amanda Ramcharitar
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 10, 2011
In the face of such incongruities, it is easy to shelter ourselves inside our day-to-day activities. It is tempting to protect ourselves from the troubling truth. Considering the world's environmental, social, political and economic state, it takes a great deal of bravery, some days, just to read the news. Yet awareness of these heart-wrenching realities is the key to action.276 views
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Fine: what should I be Eating, Then? The Crazy Sexy Diet, of course! ~ Sasha Aronson
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 10, 2011
But what interested me most was when one member of the audience asked Karr to walk us through her daily diet. I'm including her daily regimen here for you to adopt or reject in horror, whichever you please...1,133 views
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Homage to Betty Ford: We’d have no Dr. Drew without you.
by Sara Gottfried, MD on Jul 10, 2011
Besides supporting legalized abortion, Betty Ford faced and shared frankly her personal struggle with alcohol and prescription pills, and later founded the Betty Ford Center outside of Palm Springs, a 12-Step in-patient recovery center that was the first licensed Addiction Hospital in the world. Her willingness to face her addiction publicly forever changed addiction care for the better, and brought the hidden aspects of addiction to the light. Powerful legacy, Betty. We'd have no Dr. Drew without you!760 views
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Minding Your Peas and Cukes. ~ Emily Alex
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 10, 2011
Perhaps the key to success in agriculture these days is a fertile sense of humor.277 views
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Alan Watts on Spiritual Materialism.
by Benjamin Riggs on Jul 10, 2011
Alan Watts on the Differences Between "Genuine Mysticism and Stage Magic." The Trickster Guru by Alan Watts.767 views
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A Slice of Perspective Served in the Marina
by Jeannie Page on Jul 9, 2011
Do you know any modern-day "Stepford Wives"?443 views
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A Little MENitation. ~ Dara McKinley
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 9, 2011
Though many eastern philosophies would like to convince us differently – our egos are rather phenomenal. They administer tons of goodness and kindness. Things go awry in our inner and outer world when the ego believes it is in service of itself, AKA unawareness.595 views
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DIY Summer Project: Vertical Shipping Pallet Garden.
by Merete Mueller on Jul 9, 2011
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Know your Nose.
by Tobye Hillier on Jul 9, 2011
We don’t really give a lot of importance to noses. Good for olfactory stuff like smelling and remembering things by their smell.Terrible irritation if you’ve a cold and up and till the point I started practising yoga, my nose was just partner to my ears in the chore of keeping my spectacles in check.1,315 views
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My dogma ran over my karma
by Aminda R. Courtwright on Jul 9, 2011
I believe we are meant to become the best human possible. Not stop being human, but come to a place where we are living our fullest potential. And to do this we must know all aspects of humanity; to experience being the captor and the prisoner, the victor and the loser; ruler and serf; we must know success and failure; joy and pain.465 views
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“Elephant is not* a Yoga Blog.”
by Jessica Durivage on Jul 9, 2011
"It is motivating to me to be able to bring in more people who are passionate about politics and social activism." ~Waylon Lewis speaking about the future of elephant1,455 views
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A Moral Predicament.
by Andrew Cohen on Jul 9, 2011
Most of us live in a culture of such extreme narcissism and secular materialism, we have no context for knowing how to honor and respect a dimension of life that is infinitely greater than the personal sphere. We are culturally unprepared to respond to our own deepest spiritual experiences, and therefore, even after glimpsing the glory of our own potential, we rarely make the noble effort to actually transform ourselves for the highest reasons.564 views
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A Divorce of Two Yogis.
by Temple Symonds on Jul 9, 2011
We were each attempting to figure out what was right for ourselves, and at the same time trying to spare the other unnecessary pain. It meant some lying by omission. That wasn't the yoga talking. That was the fear and we both had it.1,461 views
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Sogyal Rinpoche: How You Deal with Life is what’s Important.
by Benjamin Riggs on Jul 9, 2011
How to deal with life "Dharmicly."855 views
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Calm down, shut up, and cheer up: how are you really feeling?
by Nadine McNeil on Jul 9, 2011
Being open, aware and conscious are the elements that unlock our hearts and allow us to gracefully wade through our emotions. In a world that is strung up on the perpetual pursuit of happiness, our natural instinct to minimize pain and suffering when possible is quickly becoming a need to avoid suffering by any means necessary. Until we come to the realization and acceptance that suffering and happiness exist in tandem, people will continue to feed either one at the cost of starving the other, creating imbalance.1,372 views
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Yoga & Life Series: The Future Or Now. ~ Paul Dallaghan
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 8, 2011
Will I have enough money? What will I have when I retire? Unfortunately, so much energy is wasted in worrying about the future that we deplete our energy supply and reduce what we can do now which in turn affects the future.609 views
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Update: Good News! <> Hipster Boycott? TOMS Shoes’ Blake Mycoskie is star speaker at Focus on the Family gathering.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 8, 2011
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How our Bonds Transform our Lives. ~ Rajni Tripathi
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 8, 2011
The anticipation of a life-altering event includes all the emotions we allow ourselves to feel, yet the intensity of it can be more in the direction of anxiety. We are not yet focused or are able to firmly feel the gravity of it until we our fully engrossed in the midst of the event playing out.721 views
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elephant interviews: Seane Corn. What’s it like being a Celebriyogi?
by Ari Setsudo Pliskin on Jul 8, 2011
Seane Corn has channeled the celebrity status characterized by top-selling yoga DVD’s, Yoga Journal covers and numerous modeling gigs to support the work of Off The Mat and Into The World, a spiritual activist organization she cofounded. In this interview leading up to Wanderlust, VT, we discuss the benefits and drawbacks of being a celibriyogi as well as what it means to skillfully adopt celebrity status as a yoga in itself.1,026 views
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The Mystery of Life?
by Yesica Pineda on Jul 8, 2011
"First what's first!," said the monk "Clear your mind."622 views
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Is Buddhism A Religion? A Philosophy?
by Benjamin Riggs on Jul 8, 2011
What is Buddhism?1,088 views
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One final ingredient in the recipe for excellence. ~ Amy Ippoliti & Tina Park
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 8, 2011
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The First Hipsters weren’t bike-riding coffee-sipping laptop-tapping iPhone-texting boys n’girls.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 7, 2011
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On Myths and Mistresses
by Katarina Silva on Jul 7, 2011
Pure art, like myth, surrenders to the psyche and expresses what it sees without reservation or restriction, outside of any predetermined perimeters of what define our realm of possibilities.645 views
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Orgasm Balances Your Hormones.
by Sara Gottfried, MD on Jul 7, 2011
Before Freud's time, orgasm – or “medical massage” - was regularly prescribed by doctors. When I first learned about it as a young medical student, I thought that recommending “medical massage” aka “getting off” sounded pervy and rife with complex therapeutic boundaries...not to mention risky medicolegal issues. Then I immersed myself in the literature of orgasm and oxytocin - the main hormonal mediator released by orgasm – and realized that indeed the ancient pervs were onto something.2,490 views
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Dear Universe, Please Do Not Disturb.
by Lia Aprile on Jul 7, 2011
and even though it was like putting down an unlit cigarette once you've already stuck it in your mouth and started digging around for the lighter...I willed myself to PUT the email DOWN.2,561 views
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SNL: Will Ferrell does Yoga—so he can, you know, XXXX himself.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 7, 2011
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Keeping a Zen Mind Can Save a Relationship. ~ Toni Bernhard
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 7, 2011
Korean Zen master Seung Sahn liked to instruct his students to keep a “Don’t-Know Mind” so that they wouldn’t cling to their fixed ideas about the world and about people. He said: “If you keep a Don’t-Know Mind, then your mind is clear like space and clear like a mirror.”711 views
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Look Around You. Open Your Eyes. Know Love. [Video] ~ David Telfer McConaghay
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 7, 2011
A video you'll either love or...198 views
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Bono gives blind fan the ultimate gift: joy. And, his guitar.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 7, 2011
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365 Days of Make up in One Day on Famous Model. {Video}
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 7, 2011
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The Little Elephant Journal- A Writing, Yoga and Parenting Community.
by Brent Binder on Jul 7, 2011
The Yoga of Parenting is alive and well here at Elephant Journal...A quick look around this ginormous kula will reveal a slew of great articles that can help guide your flow off the mat and into the nursery.521 views
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The Art of Being Alone
by Jeannie Page on Jul 7, 2011
Are you terrified of your own company?1,364 views
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Boulder. Now: New Era Colorado & Congressman Jared Polis host: A Birthday Celebration for Waylon Lewis.
by New Era News on Jul 7, 2011
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Clean your House, Change your Chi!
by Jennifer Bonetto on Jul 7, 2011
Energy brings opportunities for money, relationships and health. When energy is met with an obstacle, it diverts from it's normal path, which in turn takes longer to complete the "lo shu flight path." For example, picture yourself driving along and all of the sudden the light turns red, which in turn forces you to come to a screaching halt. If you were to keep doing this a dozen times, it would eventually take longer for you to get to your destination.938 views
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Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality (Review and Experience).
by Clare Polencheck on Jul 7, 2011
"I wanted the Bible, literally explained spiritually."327 views
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