+ updated at 9:57am EST on Monday, January 23, 2012.
+ Spiritual Literacy Blog offers "Just One Thing: Tune Into Others" by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Excerpt:
Empathy can be defined as the capacity to understand and respond to the unique experience of another. It is a skill that can be developed at an early age and applied to mend relationships and conflicts. We can sharpen our empathy by asking the right questions, avoiding snap judgments, learning from the past, and setting limits.
+ Inner Frontier offers another weekly installment in the Inner Work series on Sacred Impulses by Joseph Naft. This week's offering is on Joy. Here's an excerpt:
At the level of being conscious and fully aware, we
rise into a natural, un-caused joy. We are suffused with joy in our awareness
itself. Our very presence is joy.
Sharing moments with friends and loved ones brings us joy. Taking actions that
serve others brings us joy. Being useful, creative, or spontaneous brings us
joy. Doing something well brings us joy. Dropping the burdens of egoism, dropping the defense of
our pretenses, dropping our clinging, we are released into joy. We even feel
empathetic joy in others’ joys. Our joy is no longer limited or in any way
dependent. We live in joy.
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