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Inner Peace Festival to promote Meditation, Healing

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Many of us imagine a world in which there would be peace, not just the absence of war, but true peace -- peace that is as personal as quietude and self-acceptance and as global as the whole human race living together in harmony and mutual respect. On May 19, on St. Anthony and Main, the Inner Peace Festival will honor this dream through a gathering of diverse religious, cultural and artistic expressions. The Center of Light, a non-denominational Christian Mystical Center in Uptown, is … [Read more...]

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Your Glorious Self

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"May there be peace within and without. May it begin with you and spread by your healing touch and laughter. May you know deep in your heart that you are exactly where you are meant to be right now as you receive my gratitude for all you mean to me. May you be reminded by each morning's light of the possibilities that grow out of love for yourself. May the natural gifts you were born with, and the skills and virtues you developed by your persistence, be seen by others so they are uplifted by … [Read more...]

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2012: Moving Toward Evolution By Choice Not Chance

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Evolution is evolving from unconscious chance to conscious choice. We are entering the first Age of Conscious Evolution. Why? Because we obviously affect our own evolution by all the choices we make - from the food we eat, the number of babies we have, the cars we drive, and the weapons we build. Humans have no experience at being responsible for global change at this level. We are facing the possibility of the collapse of our life support system. Or, I believe, the emergence of something … [Read more...]

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New movement aims to foster peace and progress globally

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Happy Science's "Fourfold Path to Enlightenment"-- Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection and Progress -- has come to the United States through a program of guided meditations, fellowship discussions and more, in New York City, and in centers based in Atlanta, Tampa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Based on the Buddhist principles of Enlightenment, Happy Science's new model is designed for the unique challenges in our modern world, with the goal of helping to achieve greater world peace, one … [Read more...]

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Peace through Filmmaking

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"We are infants before each other, are we not, so vulnerable to each other's words and movements. A school I sat in cured me of hurting others." -- Rabia, the female Sufi poet who inspired Rumi My interest in Arab cultures started about 15 years ago. It led to my living and teaching in Egypt and Morocco, making two documentaries there, and to my current teaching of Arab film and literature at the University of St. Thomas. Making cross-cultural documentaries is a way of searching, and it is … [Read more...]

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2011 International World Peace and Prayer Day

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The public is invited this summer solstice to the 2011 International World Peace and Prayer Day (WPPD), hosted by the Dakota / Lakota / Nakota communities, on June 21 at Fort Snelling State Park in the Twin Cities -- Bdote, the spot believed by the Dakota to be the Center of the World and the equivalent of the Garden of Eden for their people. The event's intention is to promote a mass awareness of "All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer" to encourage everyone to take time on June 21 and join in … [Read more...]

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Peace: More than just perception in Minnesota

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From the editor Minnesotans have pride in their state, and a new statistical index backs up their instinctual love for the place they call home. The inaugural U.S. Peace Index, created by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), ranks the Gopher State the fourth most peaceful in the nation. Did you know Minnesota leads the nation in the percentage of its population engaged in the workforce and having access to basic services? It has the lowest percentage of the population with diabetes … [Read more...]

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Creative Stress: An Interview with James O’Dea

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James O'Dea has a unique perspective on stress and consciousness and the way forward out of the perceived chaos of the world. The immediate past president of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, O'Dea (pronounced o-DEE) champions what he calls "Creative Stress," and as he writes in his book of the same title, it is about not resisting that which confronts us, but dancing with the energy to create opportunity and possibility as opposed to crisis and suffering. He will speak at the annual … [Read more...]

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Finding Hope in Trying Times

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Growing up, as a child of the '60s, peace, love and harmony were the words being chanted by the hippies, flower children and all who questioned authority and were against the Vietnam War. I remember thinking how I couldn't wait to grow up. I knew in my young mind, it was only a matter of time before these youthful rebels would age and mature and eventually be able to take their place in the world of politics and public opinion. With it, they would be able to change all the things they saw wrong … [Read more...]

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The Light Collective: Time is an illusion

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This is the third in a series of eight articles based on The Eight Principles of Inner Peace as channeled by the Light Collective through renowned intuitive Kathryn Harwig. These principles are simple, yet profound, and apply to all beings in the cosmos. The essence of all eight principles is inner peace, and personal empowerment - the powerful ability of humans to create the world of their choosing. The third principle is: Time is an illusion. The Light Collective explains that time is … [Read more...]

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We Are All One

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This is the first in a series of eight articles based on The Eight Principles of Inner Peace as channeled by the Light Collective through Kathryn Harwig. These principles are simple, yet profound, and they apply to all beings in the cosmos. The essence of all eight principles is inner peace and personal empowerment - the powerful ability of humans to create the world of their choosing. The Light Collective is a group of light beings from another dimension. Because they have the ability to … [Read more...]

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The Path to Peace is in the Present

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When I was in Sedona, AZ, about a year ago, I was reminded of an interview I read with travel journalist and chef Anthony Bourdain. He said that he no longer takes photographs when he travels, as he is inevitably disappointed by how poorly they capture his experience. I had been treated to a stay at an incredible spa nestled in the floor of a spectacular, red rock canyon, surrounded by parkland. In a freak meteorological event, it had turned cold and damp and rainy in late May and we'd been … [Read more...]

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Retreats prepare you for life

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There is a human instinct, some call it a divine nudge, which leads a person to interrupt the unforgiving daily grind with some gentle time away. Most often the call begins, “I’m not sure why I’m calling, but I’m looking for some quiet.” I’m the associate director of the Benedictine Retreat Center in Maplewood, MN, and I’m the person who answers many of these calls. We’re a ministry of the Benedictine Sisters of St. Paul’s Monastery, and people see this place as a source of … [Read more...]

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Generating Stillness Amidst Chaos

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As I write this I feel like I am standing in a doorway, swaying back and forth between the old habitual sensations and a new clarity that is so clear I don't even know it is there. There is the violence and chaos, but there is also this stillness. The stillness is so pristine that if my antenna is listening to the outer chaos I would easily trample upon it, clueless to its existence. This new clarity makes forward motion available to me, as long as I notice and release the patterns of emotions … [Read more...]

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Simple Steps to Your Peace

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Understand that everyone experiences stress to some degree. For each of us, it is different. What triggers my stress certainly doesn't trigger my child in the same way. The stresses of my parents are not the same as mine. The best part is that we have this beautiful built-in warning system when there is too much stress in our body. That mechanism is our emotional system. If it is out of balance, our emotional system acts like a circuit breaker. When something happens, we experience emotion. This … [Read more...]

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