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Politics and Conscience

Politics and Conscience

Dag Hammarskjöld served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his tragic death in a suspicious plane crash in 1961. During those years he saw the fledgling international organization through numerous crises with a skillfulness that drew much acclaim. As readers of his now-classic diary Markings are aware Hammarskjöld saw political leadership as …

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Politics and Conscience

Living Beautifully

Living Beautifully

We live in difficult times. Life so often seems like a turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy our world. Why then shouldn’t we cling to the certainty of the comfortable-to our deep-seated habits and familiar ways? Because Pema Chödrön teaches that kind of fear-based clinging keeps us from the infinitely more powerful experience …

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