Dear Mr. Obama, It’s Time For a Peace Plan That Works

Deepak Chopra - Jan 5 at 1PM

Israel's massive assault on Gaza is the worst sort of déjà vu all over again. As news commentators wearily point out that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a never-ending story, there are shifts in that story. The most important was George Bush's decision to studiously ignore the whole problem. For eight years the U.S. has abandoned its responsibility to broker peace. The result has been an ongoing catastrophe. No one needs reminding of that.

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"Be Greedy": Did Warren Buffett get it wrong?

DK Matai - Jan 5 at 12AM

Dear Friends, we note that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost 32% of its market cap in 2008. So much for "be greedy when others are fearful!" Did the Sage get it wrong...?

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ISRAEL GETS A PASS

Gotham Chopra - Jan 4 at 8PM

Over the last few days, I have been doing my best to survey a variety of different news services and keep up on the unfolding events in Gaza and the Israeli invasion therein.

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Joyful Goal Achievement

Sarah Maria - Jan 4 at 8PM

Have you ever felt a sweet, joyful satisfaction when you achieved a goal or accomplished something you set out to do?

I would like to test a hypothesis in this post. Being that this is just a hypothesis, not yet a theory, I would love your feedback. Please feel free to challenge, comment, or otherwise offer your opinion - I always love to hear from you and read all of your comments!

The amount of satisfaction we experience when we achieve a goal is in direct proportion to how conscious we are as we set our goals and go about achieving them. The more conscious we are, the greater chance we will experience a sense of joy, excitement, even bliss and euphoria. The less conscious we are, the greater the chance that we will arrive at our goals feeling indifferent or even discontentment.

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The Asymmetric Israel-Palestine Conflict (Updated)

DK Matai - Jan 3 at 3PM

Dear Friends, we are deeply sorry to note the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestine... What of the peace process now...? What of the road map...?

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A 2008 selfcentered story for you

Max Simon - Jan 3 at 10AM

As the new-year approaches, I wanted to take this opportunity
to share with you the selfcentered story from 2008 - both for
your entertainment and for my release. So here goes.

In the last twelve months, I’m convinced that I have learned
more about life, love, business, silence, and success than I
have in the last twenty-six years of my life. My story, which
seems to be unfolding totally out of my control and
simultaneously completely guided by my own wisdom, has
been nothing short of a rollercoaster.

I began this year with a vision – to inspire one million people
to meditate. I had no idea how I was going to reach them (or
who I was talking to for that matter) but none-the-less, I was
fired up. It was a big dream; and I had a plan, money to get me
through the first phase, and more courage than I myself
expected. Blend that with a strong ego and a willful desire to
succeed and I had the ingredients for meditation domination.
Or so I thought.

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Golden Age: Knowing What is Enough! From The Inter-Net to The Inner-Net

DK Matai - Jan 1 at 1PM

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! 2009 is going to be wondrous and eclectic! In the middle of the economic and financial turmoil of 2008, which ATCA's 5,000+ global community of experts had predicted to a large extent and discussed point by point in Socratic Dialogue between 2001 and 2007, something new, something massive, is emerging.

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Open Thread

Intent - Dec 31 at 11PM

Dec. 31, 2008

Leave the Sinking Ship: An Open Invitation to the Wall Street Journal to Get on Board for Integrative Health Reform

Deepak Chopra - Dec 31 at 11AM

Deepak Chopra, MD Andrew Weil, MD and Rustum Roy, PhD

On December 26, 2008, the Wall Street Journal published “The Touch that Doesn't Heal,” an article by Steve Salerno. Without discernible professional credentials in health reportage, the writer opened his piece by pledging allegiance to "scientifically proven, evidence-based medicine." He next declared opposition to integrative medicine, and characterized as “gurus” two proponents of integrative medicine, Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil, choosing to overlook that we both are highly trained MDs with almost 40 years of clinical-experience. Joining us in our response is Rustum Roy, an internationally known scientist, and member of five major National Academies of Science Engineering, who has spent ten years researching a wide range of health technologies, both ancient and modern. We predict that while they may try to dismiss us, the Wall Street Journal writer and editors will find they can't dismiss a burgeoning field of medicine currently saving and improving millions of lives worldwide.

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Happy New Year!

DK Matai - Dec 31 at 4AM

Dear Friends, we wish All-in-One a very peaceful, joyful and more enlightened 2009 with the Grace of the Supra Universal Consciousness!

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Tools of Personal Transformation – Forgiveness

Deepak Chopra - Dec 30 at 7PM

From an early age we are told forgiveness is an important virtue we should practice, but we are only told to forgive, we are not shown how to forgive and mean it. In the Lord’s Prayer we ask God to “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us,” But I don’t think forgiveness should be regarded as prescriptive morality. Prescriptive morality never works and is frequently a form a self- righteousness in disguise--a mask for the ego.

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Memo to President-Elect Obama

Deepak Chopra - Dec 30 at 11AM

You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Eisenhower was elected after promising to end the Korean War. But ending a war isn't the same as bringing peace. America has been on a war footing since the day after Pearl Harbor, sixty-seven years ago. We spend more on our military than the next sixteen countries combined. If you have a vision of change that goes to the heart of this country's deep problems, ending our dependence on war is far more important than ending our dependency on foreign oil.
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If Terrorism Is a Cancer, Treat It Like One

Deepak Chopra - Dec 29 at 12PM

In the spirit of President-elect Obama's call for unity, the present divide between opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq needs to be healed. On one side, as represented by President Bush in his exit interviews, the war is seen, post-surge, as a key success in the war on terror. On the other side, as voiced by peace advocates, the war has been a dismal, shameful failure that did nothing to lessen the threat of terror around the world.

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An Imaginary Retrospective of 2009

DK Matai - Dec 29 at 3AM

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Arab-Israeli rage - again

Gotham Chopra - Dec 28 at 8PM

Somewhere in Tel Aviv right now there are a couple of dozen Israelis excitedly preparing for a New Years’ bash that sadly will be their last. Likewise in Gaza or the West Bank there are a couple hundred Palestinians that are huddling with their families, dodging Israeli missile attacks, but only temporarily because they are inevitable statistics destined to die.

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Query: Israel-Palestine and Obama

DK Matai - Dec 28 at 2AM

Dear Friends, we note the escalating conflict between Israel & Palestine with potential repercussions across the world. In particular, the Arab world, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and also, Russia. Obama where art thou? How do you feel about this?

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When you want to cry, just love

Sarah Maria - Dec 27 at 7PM

Hello everyone,

I am currently in the process of moving and just finished a second day of packing, sorting, moving, carrying, giving away, throwing away, storing, and figuring what in the world to do with all this STUFF!

I really, truly, dislike packing. We all have our weaknesses, I suppose, and mine is certainly organizing, packing, and sorting stuff.

I walked into my office this morning, stared at my files and papers that needed to be organized and packed, and practically broke in to tears. (I did in fact break down crying a few more hours into the move, feeling completely overwhelmed by the whole process.)

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Love Poems

DK Matai - Dec 26 at 11PM

Dear Friends, do you have a love poem that you would like to share? Let me begin by sharing with you, one of my favourites by Shakespeare.

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Universal Greetings!

DK Matai - Dec 25 at 2PM

Dear Friends, given that the IntentBlog, Intent, ATCA Open, The Philanthropia and HQR wonderful family extends to 120+ countries please accept universal greetings!

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What is your best life?

Sarah Maria - Dec 25 at 12PM

What I want most from life is to be and become the very best me, while helping you become the very best you, and creating the very best we.

Who is this best me? It is being everything, while also being nothing. It is fighting endlessly for every dream, while letting every dream go. It is falling down seven times, and getting up eight. It is having everything, while needing nothing. It is constantly becoming, although never arriving. It is giving my very best all the time, knowing that anything and everything is absolutely good enough. It is loving because I am a lover, knowing that my heart is already whole.

It is looking at myself in a mirror and knowing I am the brilliance and beauty of the entire universe manifesting as a human being.

It is embodying power, beauty, and grace for the betterment of humanity.

Now to make it more concrete:

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