A Better Way To Give

Going to Jail Today – Kelly Boys

I feel the impulse to write about my experience in San Bruno jail today. I teach a weekly iRest (Integrative Restoration Institute) class there, to a group of men who are incarcerated veterans convicted of violent offenses.

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The Power of One Moment – Anne Jablonski

No book, no manual, no clinical scientific study could ever convey with such clear conviction – that even just one single solitary breath wrapped in peace has the power to make possible the choice between waking up to embracing life’s purpose or to settle for anything less.

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India Supera’s “The Elk Story”: Manifesting a Dream

It is time to dream. It is time to come together and inspire and encourage one another. It is time to take this “good chance” and manifest our future, a future where all are welcomed, nurtured and included. It is time to Occupy Our Hearts and become the community of wondrous beings we truly are!

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This Crazy Ole’ World – Dr. Daniel J Libby

For more than 36 years now, the Feathered Pipe Ranch has been a place where people find direction. Throughout my life I have seen it over and over again – People come here for a week-long immersion in yoga and meditation, or simply a week away from their day-to-day life, and they come away transformed.

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Living with Dignity: TCEF Sponsor an Elder Program – Karma Tensum

A TCEF sponsorship that gives them about twelve hundred rupees ($30) a month is then like winning a lottery that provides a reasonable annuity for life. I believe that helping a Tibetan elder through the Sponsor an Elder program is true karmayoga.

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New Day’s Dawning: 2011 Fall Fundraising Campaign

The Feathered Pipe Ranch holds an extremely special place in so many hearts. Everyone at the Ranch continues to embrace and stay focused on the goal of creating the space for people to enrich mind, body, and spirit. But we need your help.

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New Day’s Dawning – J.V. Bennett & Melissa McNair

The vision of the Feathered Pipe Foundation has been and will continue to be that we facilitate and encourage people to find their way in the world by providing them with new information, insights, practices and a place where they can safely and freely explore them.

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Tibetan Children’s Education Foundation – Karma Tensum

For many people all over the globe, the Tibetan culture with it’s unique emphasis on spirituality and altruism has a special appeal. Unfortunately, at this time, it seems that this culture stands a better chance of survival in exile than in Tibet itself.

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To Serve: Our Highest Calling – India Supera

“The fulfillment of human life consists in the service that man renders, without any thought of return, in an attitude of selflessness.” – Sathya Sai Baba

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The Point of no Return… – Eric D. Myers

Standing on the edge of the world overlooking dark oblivion, sometimes it seems there is no way forward in one’s life but to take the step falling, reaching out to something greater, hoping that there is some higher knowing to a universe that has come to seem utterly nonsensical.

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Wintersong: A Young Woman’s View

India’s daughter Wintersong Safronoff, attended the United Nations conference in New York with India, and here are her impressions:
Every woman I met was incredible – they have all done so much to empower themselves and fight for their wide-ranging causes – all bringing awareness to how much injustice there is in the world.

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A Better Way to Give (Revisited)

A year ago I wrote a letter about a better way to give, and I’d like to continue that conversation on this blog beginning with some thoughts on volunteering. Why Volunteer? Instant joy! It gives us pleasure to put our existing skills to work.

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5th United Nations World Conference on Women

I am back from New York and would like to report on the proceedings. It was a wonderful community of women from all over the globe. Among them, there is consensus that we need this 5th conference but to date none of the 192 member nations has stepped up to request it. My goal is to have this happen in India.

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