stillnessinaction http://www.stillnessinaction.net Just another WordPress site Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:40:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 PRESENCE AMIDST BEAUTY, LOSS, POSSIBILTIES /director-of-the-rainforest-action-network-in-the-us/ /director-of-the-rainforest-action-network-in-the-us/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:44:05 +0000 /?p=1572 Dear friends, A most inspiring environmental campaigner, Becky Tarbotton, Director of the US Rainforest Action Network drowned while on holidays in Mexico on Boxing Day, 2012.  These words are from her speech celebrating the successful campaign which resulted in the Disney Corporation ceasing to source its paper from tropical rainforests and other unsustainable sources. Becky […]

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]]> /director-of-the-rainforest-action-network-in-the-us/feed/ 0 THE GIFT OF PRESENCE APPRECIATING WHO YOU REALLY ARE /the-gift-of-presence-appreciating-who-you-really-are/ /the-gift-of-presence-appreciating-who-you-really-are/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:59:22 +0000 /?p=1558 This is the first talk of three talks that are sign-posts in the journey of this retreat. Before we begin any journey, we take time to deeply appreciate, to be present – with – awareness, the inner and outer places from which we begin the journey – to the outer and inner landscape through which […]

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]]> /the-heart-that-breaks-open/feed/ 0 LIFTING UP THE HEART /lifting-up-the-heart/ /lifting-up-the-heart/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:50:35 +0000 /?p=1567 This talk grew from hearing Dr Jeffrey Sachs give the 2007 Reith Lectures on ABC RadioNational.   Geoffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at ColumbiaUniversity. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was […]

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