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Healing Through Unity & Harmony by Marty Schirn

John Lennon sang "Imagine all the people….Living life in peace." Guest blogger Marty Schirn imagines just that—a world that lives in harmony, peace and compassion for all. While LOI  does not endorse or promote any religion above another, LOI is happy to share any...

Healthy Choices by Johnno Zee

When it was time for me to get back in for a physical to renew my medical certification last summer, the doctor told me to lose 20 lbs. I'm sure there was the possibility that he felt that he was wasting his breath considering that people in general don't always head...

Be the Change

Gandhi said and lived it best—be the change you wish to see in the world. Of course his predecessors and contemporaries sound this clarion call too—Jesus, Buddha, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Dali Lama just to name a few. But the quote hails from...

If All Else Fails by P.J. McIlvaine

I’m a wife, mother, daughter, Gamma---and no, as Ringo once famously sang, it ain’t easy.  Toss in juggling a full time job, my writing projects, being the full-time caregiver for my mother, a once busy, active, independent woman now a mere shell of her former self...

The Pickup Sticks Perspective

As a child I used to play pickup sticks. You know the game—the one where you have to pick a spindly thin long fragile plastic stick off the floor without touching another stick. Sorta like mind your P’s and Q’s or never mix your veggies with your mashed potatoes....

Unconditional Love by Ralph Cissne

When springtime approaches we are mindful of renewal, harmony and what conscious cultures consider a way of life: to honor the feminine. The concept of spiritual practice passing “through the feminine” marked the beginning of human consciousness and transcendent...