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Negative emotions like anger, jealousy, and pride are blessings in disguise. When we are consumed by these emotions, we feel overwhelmed. Yet, there is a ray of light, of hope, if we search. This ray of light is the foundation for transformation. Transformation to an enlightened state, expressed by the Buddha, after attaining…

Photo: Lisa Maree Williams | Credit: Getty Images 2015

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.

At 9:45 AM, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, announced…

The Buddha was a genius at recognizing the source of our trauma and teaching methods to overturn it. When we encounter a difficult person spewing venom, we either retaliate with anger, or run away in fear. The Buddha taught us to cherish these encounters. For they offer a rich fabric allowing us to weave a beautiful mind and heart of…

Compassion is the heart of the path. Sometimes it is easy to generate. Often it is not. We are so entrenched and addicted believing our happiness comes from taking care of number one. To step out and be radical, thinking that our happiness comes from caring for others, takes some doing. Especially when we’re being bombarded by…

Reach for the sky. Always. Our tendency is to reach down, to narrow our focus and give in to our habitual negative self-cherishing patterns. Resist. Reach for the sky. Always. Become bigger, not smaller. Broaden your perspective rather than narrow it. Always. Our default, especially when facing challenges, is to draw the wagons around…

Great News: The Network 'Peace for the Soul' stays Alive!

I contacted Ning, and they made me a very encouraging offer, which I accepted. After all, the network and all of you dear friends and members are very dear to me, even if many of you remain silent. But that can change if you're ready.

And the many interesting groups—it would be a shame to lose all of that.

So, dear friends and members, I look forward to your continued interesting contributions and comments, and…

Ning grants us, for how long, a farewell phase...

Thank you...Merci...

Hello everyone!

With a heavy heart, I've decided to give up the network. Ning raised the price without my knowledge, so I can no longer afford it. I'm also getting older, and health, when it's there, is a wonderful gift.

So, I wish you all the best.

Much love,

Eva

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"Malvhina". This beautiful sculpture stands in the centre of the town of Malvern, and was created by Rose Garrard in 1998.

She embodies many things important to Malvern's history and culture but the central concept is a trinity. Malvhina holds a kind of Celtic triskele in her hands from which pure Malvern water flows,…

Happening

Out of a seed in the ground

comes a flower. Miracle!

Out on the branch of a tree

come blossoms in spring.

Out from the blossoms fruit grows

delighting senses.

And an…

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a great English poet. He was admired by Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, and George Bernard Shaw, and wrote, “A man (and woman) to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.”…

A Prayer for Peace

Today is the fifteenth day of the first month of the Tibetan Calendar, and the culmination of the annual Great Prayer Festival (Monlam Chenmo), a two-week-long festival that begins with the…

TODAY is International Women's Day!

"Where there is a woman

there is magic!"

~ Ntozake Shange

Artist: Vanessa Craan,…

Auspicious Losar — Tashi Delek! May this year of the wood snake shed the skin of stale negative tendencies, freeing us to enable a positive collective future bringing merit, realization, love and harmony for all. Have confidence that our global recitation of the Seven Vajra Verses can truly make it possible:



“..those graced with good…

HAPPY LOSAR, Tibetan New Year, to everyone. May this new year bring newfound freedoms for the flourishing of Tibetan culture, language, expression and religion. May there be an end to war and may all beings experience peace of mind. To cultivate peace of mind, reduce incessant mental chatter. Incessant mental chatter drives us crazy.…

Walls

I am stupid.

We are all stupid.

We worship the idols

of human stupidity.

We build walls.

The alternative

is intimate and easy.

People everywhere are…

Genuine humility is strength, not weakness as some people believe. Why is this? Humility comes about when we reduce our ego. Not reducing our ego due to insecurity or self-doubt but reducing through understanding the disadvantages of arrogance. This leads to courage as we reduce ego clinging and become more focused on concern for the…

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been telling us for some time, “compassion, loving kindness, and altruism are the keys not only to human development, but also to planetary survival. Real change in the world will only come from a change of heart.” Even if leaders are not listening, we can set examples through our behavior backed by a…

Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin

In 1927, a heartwarming photograph captured the real-life duo behind the beloved characters of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. The image shows a young Christopher Robin Milne, the son of author A.A.…

THE WHITE ROSE *

The light of reason

And the Higher Light

And there is sanity in the light

The fire of passion

And that is Love

The flow of passionate life

Believe in the River of Crossing Over…