Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Friday, 04 April 2008 19:00 | | 
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Lesley Crombie has a change of heart...
I was brought up in a family that actively loathed animals – all animals – without prejudice: two legs, four legs, no legs. And any human who willing possessed a pet that didn’t have wings or fins was deemed asylum material.
Published on Sunday, 18 May 2008 19:00 | |
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Deliriously funny - a guaranteed mood-lifter!
Published on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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Former UK Foreign Secretary Douglas - now Lord - Hurd develops Karl Mackie's comments on the rise of mediation in settling commercial and civil law disputes. Can the same process be applied to political and diplomatic conflicts?
You've just listened to Karl. It's a remarkable story, which he's told very modestly. I think without breaking the rules I could say that more than one of the actual cases he cited were actually mediated by himself.
Published on Friday, 09 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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In the second of her Occasional Newsletters, Sarah Litvinoff offers more tips
and techniques for
fellow sufferers as she continues to write her next book, The Procrastination Plan.
As I believe that procrastination is not ALL bad (uncomfortable though it is) periodically I'll concentrate on insights into reasons behind your inability to do what needs to be done. Sometimes this is because you are ignoring your wise inner voice, which is communicating with you in the only way it can — by going on strike.
Published on Saturday, 17 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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Julia has just been on the telly - coo!
Recently a film crew from GMTV came round to my flat to record a sort of green infomercial which was to be replayed on Lorraine Kelly’s breakfast show the following week. Eager as always to do my bit for the planet I was filmed poking around my worm bin (unfortunately the lid had blown off again and all the rain had turned it into a bit of a swamp), cleaning my windows with vinegar and water and watering my window boxes with my grubby saved old bathwater.
Published on Wednesday, 21 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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What is the purpose of life? It is to become happy, argues Daisaku Ikeda
Whatever country or society people live in, they all have the same deep desire: to become happy. Yet, there are few ideals as difficult to grasp as that of happiness. In our daily life we constantly experience happiness and unhappiness, but we are still quite ignorant as to what happiness really is.
Published on Thursday, 15 May 2008 19:00 | |
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Time Magazine nominated Bono as Person of the Year for being 'shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow.'
By Vida Adamoli
Bono, front man and main lyricist of the Irish band U2, is the image of a rock star, complete with chin stubble and tinted glasses. He's also a humanitarian activist using his fame to create positive change.