PBS’s American Experience Series is re-running a program about the CCC – a program that put 3 million men to work in the US during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The CCC planted more than 3 billion trees, terraced farm lands devastated by the dust bowl, built over 800 state parks, repaired roads and bridges. …

June 29 – July 13, 2010. Join with other thinkers and explore the subject of eco-spirituality.

Pema Chodron’s newest book, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves From Old Habits & Fears, grabbed me from the very start and wouldn’t let me go. It’s message is still resonating with me and I’ve been telling all my friends about it.

What could change the direction of today’s civilization? It is my deep conviction that the only option is a change in the sphere of the spirit, in the sphere of human conscience. …

WHEN I was a boy in Tibet, I felt that my own Buddhist religion must be the best — and that other faiths were somehow inferior. Now I see how naïve I was, and how dangerous the extremes of religious intolerance can be today.

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