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Holy Land tours provide a new tool in peacebuilding

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Jerusalem – Shira Nesher, an Israeli, stands alongside Fakhira Halloun, a Palestinian, as Nesher tells her story about life in a conflict zone to a group of American university students who are hanging onto her every word. “My family members are Holocaust survivors, and as an Israeli I grew up in an environment of fear [...]

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Who Turned Out the Lights?

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“Life offers contradictory truths: We are separate, yet we are one. Accidents happen, yet there are no accidents. Death is real, yet death is an illusion. Our experience of reality and truth depends on our state of awareness.” Dan Millman Have you ever felt lost, alone and in the dark? Have you ever desperately sought [...]

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A National Geographic Love Story

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Mabel Gardiner Hubbard was only five years old when scarlet fever rendered her deaf for life. At the age of 17, she would meet a young Scottish speech therapist who was destined to shape her life. Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Mabel’s father and National Geographic’s first president, took a liking to the industrious teacher and part-time [...]

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When to listen to fear (and when not to)

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If fear tells you not to step onto a pond that has just frozen over, it is a good idea to listen to fear. But if fear tells you not to set foot outside your door in the winter because there may be frozen ponds out there, it’s best to overcome the voice of fear, [...]

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Picking a therapist: The right fit is critical so ask the right questions

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From the American Psychological Association: “Being in therapy is great,” comedian Caroline Rhea once joked. “I spend an hour just talking about myself. It’s kind of like being the guy on a date.” It’s not a bad analogy — the dating one — when you’re setting out to find a therapist. You want someone with [...]

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The Painful Truth

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We’ve all experienced some form of emotional pain in our lives at some stage or another, and as I was considering what to write about on this subject I came across this lovely quote. ‘Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for [...]

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What is my question?

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I have often find myself asking other people’s questions. However, at one point it struck me that these were not my questions. And then, a new question arose: what is my question? What do I truly want to know and to answer? That is a powerful question.   Image Credit: WingedWolf @ Flickr Please share [...]

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The Photograph

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This picture arrived in my email box the other day. When I saw it, I was struck by the emotions it conveyed. In writing this I thought about the numerous ways I could attempt to offer you the profundity I find in the photograph. However, each time I would look back at the shot, I [...]

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Bald is Beautiful

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A group of American women got together with the idea of redefining the concept of beauty. Men can be blond, brown, red, white and… bald. Why not women? I photographed them in New York as they were that day and I collected their stories too. Some of them have alopecia, some have been through chemotherapy, others [...]

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For the Want of a Home

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From Bronwyn Harris for Teaching Tolerance: Like many of us, I sometimes overuse the word “need.” I have a tendency to say that I need the new iPhone or I need a pedicure, even though those are clearly things that I want, rather than need. My greatest lesson on distinguishing between a want and a [...]

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