Resources to support true freedom in your life…

Spirit

• What is Your Deepest Aspiration?
100000aspirations.org is a project of Karmê Chöling, a retreat center in Northern Vermont offering contemplative practices and disciplines to promote peace, wisdom and compassion in the world.  Visit the website to share your deepest intention in the world in order to radiate them out into the world. You’ll be in good company – Pema Chodron, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Joanna Macy are some of the people who are participating.

• How to End Suffering
Sandra Pawula, creator of the blog Always Well Within, explores the question “Why do we suffer?” in this beautiful post. Sandra’s writing is extraordinarily clear and helpful – In this post, she takes some pretty lofty Buddhist concepts and translates them in a way that is easy to understand, without in any way diluting their power or profundity. Well worth a read.

Finances/Livelihood

• Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
Everyone is raving about Jonathan Fields’ new book Uncertainty, and with good reason. While the book is a testimony to the power of uncertainty and risk as a way to catapult us into doing our greatest work, it really applies to every area of life. Jonathan’s own story is very moving – he gave up a high paying job as a lawyer to become a personal trainer, and then signed a lease on a space to open as a yoga center in New York City the day before 9/11. Through it all, he’s lived his own truth of finding creativity right in the middle of chaos.

• Help for Small Nonprofits (and a milestone for me!)
Okay, this is a shameless plug for my very first “digital product.” I’ve put together almost everything I know about marketing into a toolkit called “Fully Engaged!” to help small nonprofit organizations build more engaged communities. I think it’s pretty cool. And I’m offering it for a special introductory discount price until November 30. You can find out more about it here.

Creativity

• Passion, Creativity, and Music
Benjamin Zander is an incredibly inspirational man – and a lot of fun to watch as he explains the creative impulse that manifests in classical music in this TED talk. Zander is the author of The Art of Possibility with his wife Rosamund, a book that a Liberated Life Project reader highly recommended to me. I’m reading it right now, and she was right – there are countless treasures in both the talk and the book. Enjoy!

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