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July/August 2024

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.-Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century Benedictine mystic, medical practitioner, writer, and composer

- KELLY ISOLA

TIME TO TAKE THE RISK

HAVE YOU EVER FELT as if you're living in two different worlds simultaneously? Sometimes this happens for me because there is "too much life" going on. By that I mean death of loved ones, illness, depression, feeling lost and not anchored, weariness, loneliness, scattered brain, oppression of groups of people everywhere I look-home and abroad... you get the idea.

While not all these challenges belong to me, they are present in my solar system right now-like planets circling on different pathways near me and through me. Yet I know by tomorrow, or next week, all these experiences will have shifted their orbits. This is when it feels like I'm living in a separate world at the same time.

MEER VERHALEN VAN Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

SILENCE & SOLITUDE

IN SILENCE AND SOLITUDE, we find the space to reflect on what has transpired in the year that is passing and what we plan to carry with us into the new year.

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1 min

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT

You can curse your karma, or you can look at what it's trying to teach you.

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6 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

Naomi Westwater

HONORS GRIEF, SPIRIT, AND SONG

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5 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES FOR MANAGING CHRONIC PAIN

Discover how ancient wisdom and modern research converge to offer hope and healing beyond traditional medicine.

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6 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

GO YOUR OWN WAY

This woman ditched standard religious dogma in favor of a unique patchwork-style path that works for her.

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6 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO EARTH

OVER THE YEARS, my take on Christmas has shifted a lot. I was taught it was a celebration of the birth of Jesus, but really it was all about the presents!

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2 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

OUR WIDELY DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE ... AND OUR REMARKABLE ABILITY TO IGNORE IT

What happens when technology forces us to redefine human consciousness itself?

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7 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

A PATH FORWARD

IF YOU REMEMBER ONE THING from this column, remember this: Being out of harmony with your soul or with the demands of your spiritual nature is like having a rock in your shoe. It is going to bug you until you fix the situation. If you remember two things from this column, add this: Your soul is not about happiness. The rock in your shoe is not unhappiness. What our soul or spirit wants is to be fully present, innocent, and vulnerable to the vibrancy of life—to show up fully to life, whatever it brings.

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4 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

MUCH-NEEDED RECALIBRATION

RIGHT STORY, WRONG STORY: How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell

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3 mins

November/December 2025

Spirituality & Health

Spirituality & Health

THE SMALL THINGS WE CARRY

I CAN’T REMEMBER HOW LONG I have been carrying protein bars or other snacks in my glove compartment. I do this so that when I come to a stoplight where a person is sitting with a cardboard sign in hand, sun in their eyes and shoes worn thin, I can easily pop open my glove box and offer what I have. It doesn't happen too often, yet it did the other day. I realized the position I was in and what I had stashed away. It's my chance to look someone in the eyes who likely is not used to having their humanity affirmed. For the length of a breath, we are just two people in the same world. Rarely are words exchanged, but the hands say enough. I know it's not a lot, and it is what I have.

time to read

2 mins

November/December 2025

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