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A Prayer in Awe of Mamoudou Gassama's Spontaneous Courage
What we do in emergency situations speaks volumes about who we are, as 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama's courage and quick reflexes show. Upon seeing a child dangling from a fifth-storey Paris apartmen…
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Something Inside
How does a person know when something inside of them is changing?
Things do change. Storms turn into sun, snow melts into spring. People change. Perhaps a new talent or hobby is rising out o…
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Where Does Morality Come From?
By Zach Young for KidSpirit's Ethics and Morality issue.
What are morals and where do they come from?
Is morality like the laws of physics, ironclad dicta from nature? Or is morality like lang…
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Art and Your Inner Spiritual Work
On Huffingtonpost.com Mariano Lozano notes that throughout the ages, thinkers and philosophers have described human beings as political animals, toolmaking animals, playing animals, and calculative …
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The Wholeness of Nature
By Katie Reis in KidSpirit's Myth & Magic issue.
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…
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The "Right" Way to Pray
By Gracie Griffin in the KidSpirit Simplicity and Complexity issue.
Prayer is the limbo between the serenity of accepting the world’s chaos around you and the challenge of pursuing stillness in…
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Playing Hide and Seek with God
I've been playing hide and seek with God most of my life. Sometimes I hide from God and sometimes God hides from me. I think I've discerned a pattern: Whenever I become confident that God is found i…
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The Future of Spirituality
David Bryce Yaden is a scientific researcher who studies the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual experiences; he prepared this essay for Huffingtonpost.com. Here are the four developments he se…
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Grief Takes a Road Trip
My mother died. Those three words are hard to write, let alone process. For me, the finality of never hearing my mother’s voice again or having the chance to talk over old issues or discover somet…
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Aging and the Wisdom of Trees
“From wonder into wonder, existence opens.”
—Lao Tzu
I dreaded turning sixty. For months before my birthday, I imagined a fire-breathing dragon lurking around the corner, waiting to …
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