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Making Peace, Becoming Awake: Contemplative Practice in Education
Wherever you are in the world, a quiet—one might call it a “mindful”—revolution is taking place in education. Visit a classroom in a high school, college, university, or professional school, and you...
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An Unexpected Path to Heroism
Interfaith Connections is a column for teens to dialogue about how their faith or wisdom tradition influences their view of life’s big questions. In each issue, three teens from different backgrounds...
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The Wholeness of Nature
I’m not a religious person. I was baptized a Catholic but slowly realized that many of Catholicism’s beliefs and principles did not fit my own. Over the years, I have explored many different...
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Double Happiness: Wisdom from Two Buddhist Teachers
Buddhist teachers Matthieu Ricard and Sylvia Boorstein share two PerSpectives essays on KidSpirit’s summer theme. To imagine happiness as the achievement of all your wishes and passions is to confuse...
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Yellow: The Feeling of Mindfulness
It’s Thursday, the best day of the week, no question. Thursday is the day my mindfulness group meets, which means that at 11:15 a.m. I get to leave my classes and escape the overwhelming social life...
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