Spiritual

What Helping Homeless Women Taught Me About Buddhism | Mickey Z.

Photo collage by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- Now with Purpose Aug. 12, 2020 In October 2016, I started a one-man program to directly help homeless women on the streets of NYC. It would be fruitless for me to attempt recounting all I’ve learned in the process — most often from the incredible women themselves. But, let’s just say I was not expecting any hands-on lessons about Buddhism! Since the pandemi ...

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later | Mickey Z.

A bombed-out temple in Nagasaki. Photo credit: Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) - Wikipedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 2, 2020 “From the very concept of strategic bombing, al ...

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Little Ideas Can Add Up to a Beautiful Beginning | Mickey Z.

YouTube screenshot Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 30, 2020 As he was for many martial artists of my generation, Bruce Lee was a catalyst and inspiration for my own studies. In fact, I specificall ...

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6 Easy Ways to Choose Gratitude | Mickey Z.

Image from stoneclinic.com Mickey Z. -- Now With Purpose July 26, 2020 “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” Anne Frank I live in the boro ...

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America is Having the Mother of All Social Collapses | umair haque

Photo: Medium If American Life Feels Frightening, It’s Because It’s Imploding -- In Gruesome and Catastrophic Ways July 24, 2020 (Eudaimonia and Co) -- It’s genuinely terrifying to be an American the ...

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Now Is the Time for 'Beginner’s Mind'| Mickey Z.

Kyoto Ryoan Ji. By Cquest - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5 Mickey Z. -- Now with Purpose July 16, 2020 “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities. In the expert’s, there are few.” (Shunryu Suzuki) ...

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'Try!' | John Michael Greer

July 15, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things that makes the magical history of America so, well, magical is the number of astonishing individuals who have played a central role in it. Even amon ...

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Reinventing Activism, Part 4: Learn From the Cat Lady | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 10, 2020 (Part 1 of this series can be found here) (Part 2 of this series can be found here) (Part 3 of this series can be found here) I kno ...

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The Power of the Mind | John Michael Greer

July 1, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- While Andrew Jackson Davis was attracting huge crowds with his discourses in trance, and the Fox sisters were listening to tapping noises, another important 19th-centu ...

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BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 14, 2006 “Well, good lordie, you really was writin' a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” That was my friend Fat Larr ...

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Wanted: People Willing to Stand Up to 'Legitimate Authority' | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 25, 2020 “There is a propensity for people to accept definitions of action provided by legitimate authority … Relatively few people have the ...

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