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No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being
No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being From Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable Vietnamese monk who strives to live and spread the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, I’ve learned this simple lesson: There should be no coming, no going, just being. More than anything else, these… Continue Reading “No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being”
Respect For Living Things
Respect For Living Things Not every good person makes good choices. I spent my childhood obsessively learning about animals, my family can attest to that. When I borrowed books from the library, the overwhelming odds guaranteed that it was animal related. I knew more… Continue Reading “Respect For Living Things”
Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy
Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy One in every five American teens lives in poverty. Abuse, poverty and a lack of opportunity plays an important role in not only teen pregnancy, but also unwanted pregnancies in general. Later in this… Continue Reading “Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy”
Everywhere You Go, There You Are
Everywhere You Go, There You Are A decade ago my mind was in a very dark place. In this darkness I looked for the light, even the tiniest little bit of hope that my suffering had an ending and perhaps a meaning. I… Continue Reading “Everywhere You Go, There You Are”
Words To Live By
Words To Live By I’m sharing this video because as a 4 minute reflection, it may very well be the most profound thing you listen to this month, for the next six months, or perhaps even this whole year. In fact, if you’re like… Continue Reading “Words To Live By”
Transgender in America
Transgender in America In 2011 a survey conducted by famed demographer Gary Gates, for the Williams Institute under the U.C.L.A. School of Law, he found that more than 700,000 American adults identified as transgender. His follow-up survey published in June, 2016, by the same… Continue Reading “Transgender in America”
On Faith and Fallacy: My Journey Out Of Christianity
Some ten years ago, at a time when my mind was still clouded with fantasy, I had the belief that only through faith could moral, ethical, and compassionate behavior be made manifest. That quintessentially, only through religion could we ever become better human beings.… Continue Reading “On Faith and Fallacy: My Journey Out Of Christianity”
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Photo credit: Kelvin Cheuk Lotus in a Sea of Fire:Honoring Thích Nhất Hạnh Thích Nhất Hạnh, pronounced Tik-N’yat-Hawn, was a Vietnamese monk of the Zen tradition, part of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism. The first word in his name, Thích, is actually a title… Continue Reading “Thích Nhất Hạnh”
How Climate Change Affects Our Lives
Leonardo DiCaprio’s film on climate change: Before the Flood “We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world, his inner life molds the… Continue Reading “How Climate Change Affects Our Lives”
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The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation
Posted on May 12, 2017 by Kēphen
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The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation Sexual predation and exploitation is the topic of this article, more specifically it’s about catfish who use social media and social apps to seduce and trick young men and women into sending naked… Continue Reading “The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation”
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