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	<description>Personal Development Ideas to Make What You Do More Worthwhile</description>
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		<title>Around the world dancing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If this doesn&#8217;t make you want to strap on a backpack and grab a round-the-world plane ticket, I don&#8217;t know what will.

&#8220;Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce &#8220;Where the Hell is Matt?&#8221;, a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he could rope into it) doing an incredibly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2008/07/04/around-the-world-dancing/</link>
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		<title>If someone takes your shirt give him your coat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a real-life example of the biblical admonition, &#8220;If someone takes your shirt give him your coat&#8221; (Matthew 5:40), here is a story of a man who befriended his mugger.
Julio Diaz, a social worker, was robbed at knifepoint by a teenaged mugger in the Bronx. Instead of getting angry or scared, he offered the kid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2008/03/29/if-someone-takes-your-shirt-give-him-your-coat/</link>
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		<title>The Key to Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jack LaLanne hits the nail on the head with his tips for being happy.  Eat right and burst out into song every once in a while.  Seriously, this would definitely make you happier.  What are you waiting for?

On On YouTube
Does anyone else think Jack Lalanne looks and acts like Dan Millman?
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		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2008/03/21/the-key-to-happiness/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.&#8221;
&#8211; Hamilton Wright Mabie
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		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2007/12/18/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>The Story of Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this on boingboing today.  It&#8217;s an amazingly compelling description of the ludicrous cycle of consumption we&#8217;re in as a culture.  It&#8217;s hard not to want to change your habits after watching it.  Do I really need that new watch? new phone? new car?
Take a look at the Story of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2007/12/05/the-story-of-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Countdown to dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across Kevin Kelly&#8217;s post on his &#8220;countdown to dead&#8221; and found it intriguing to have a daily reminder of my impermanence.  Contemplating one&#8217;s own death is part of the Buddhist tradition (among others), and seeks to heighten one&#8217;s awareness of the present moment and (one hopes) leads you to make the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2007/09/28/countdown-to-dead/</link>
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		<title>Walt Whitman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this excerpt from a poem by Walt Whitman.  This is the way to live.
From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,
Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute,
Listening to others, and considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2007/06/09/walt-whitman/</link>
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		<title>Pi Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Pi day in the US.  That is, the date is 3-14, just like the number Pi (3.1415&#8230;).
We celebrated with quiche for dinner and a blueberry pie for dessert.  
  
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		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2007/03/14/pi-day/</link>
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		<title>Stupid Birds!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day my daughter was looking up at the sky and said, &#8220;Stupid birds!&#8221;  I asked what she meant, and she said that the birds were flying the wrong way.
I chuckled and mentioned that if she based her happiness on the direction that birds fly, she is in for many unhappy times.
How many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2007/01/22/stupid-birds/</link>
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		<title>re-blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so easy not to blog.  But I had such high hopes when I started this blog about a year ago, so I don&#8217;t want to just let it go.  Blogging is a great way to increase mindfulness, as I&#8217;m compelled to really think about what I&#8217;m doing in the hopes of contributing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worthwhileliving.com/2006/11/01/re-blogging/</link>
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