December 18, 2007

As we turn our attention to the holiday season and look to the New Year on the horizon, I offer these notes. Hope you enjoy them!

Do drop by the Peaceful Warrior Home Page to see our new look. Our simplified menu links include two new blog posts:

• • • • Stress-Free
      • Self-Defense & the Disabled

Upcoming blog topics will include:
Changing Self, Changing World – Dream Small! –
On Child-Rearing – Entry Level Breakout –
Boundary Issues – I Believe in UFOs! –
Technology as Savior – On Meditation
So stay tuned!

Featuring the 2008 WISDOM CALENDAR, an inspiring gift for the New Year.

PLUS: Here are links to wonderful organizations and gifts that make a real difference for our family around the world. Make a donation in your friends’ or loved ones’ names and have a card sent to notify them from:

• • • www.kiva.org
    • www.altgifts.org

Here’s a way to improve your vocabulary by playing a free game AND donating rice around the world for every word you get right! Sound too good to be true? Well it is good. And it is true. Check it out!

• • • • http://freerice.com/faq.html

MANY new events world-wide coming in 2008!

AND — in addition to evening lectures and weekend workshops at centers like Mt. Madonna (CA) Omega Institute (NY) and Kripalu Center (MA), here are some special travel experiences for those of you with the interest and resources:

The sacred is in the ordinary,
in one’s daily life, in one’s
neighbors, friends, and family,
in one’s backyard.
–Abraham Maslow

It is worth a fortune
to have the habit of looking
on the bright side of things.
–Samuel Johnson

Think of what you speak,
but speak not all that you think.
–Patrick Delany

We can find on the outside
only what we possess on the inside.
–Adolfo Montiel

Everything is interconnected.
My interest is linked to everyone else’s.
Our survival and future are linked.
Therefore the destruction of
your so-called enemy
is actually the destruction of your self.
–Dalai Lama

There is great value in service to others.
If many people in therapy offices
were asked to put their finger in a dike
or to take their place in a working line,
they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
–Elizabeth Berg

The little things? The little moments?
They aren’t little.
–Jon Kabat-Zinn

Kindness is the universal language
that all people understand.
–Jake Gaither

Join with those who sing songs, tell stories,
enjoy life . . . because happiness is contageous.
Join those who walk with their heads high
even when they have tears in their eyes.
Avoid those who . . . have never shed a tear.
–Paulo Coelho

Life gets better when we get better.
–Sal Sorbera

I strive not to laugh at human actions,
not to weep at them or to hate them,
but to understand them.
–Benedict de Spinoza

Life is an attitude. Have a good one.
–Eric Lungaard

Whatever our political views, we agree that it isn’t easy being a soldier thousand miles from home. Here’s a simple, easy way to say “Thanks.” (Wouldn’t it be great if thousands of us took 60 seconds to send an e-card?)

http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html

MARCH 2008: Australia (New Zealand): March — in conjunction with my upcoming Australian and (Auckland) New Zealand events, the Peaceful Warrior movie will be released on DVD and widely available.

OCTOBER 2008: Germany, Vienna and Zurich theatrical premiers. More information soon.

ALSO:

•   UK – Starz Home Entertainment will release the DVD. More information soon.
•   The movie will also be available through pay and free TV in Scandanavia and Japan.

Dan