Nina Amir's Thoughts on Human Potential, Personal Growth and Practical Spirituality
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about people who do things that are inspirational. People who are courageous in large ways and small ways. They take risks. They put themselves on the line. They overcome obstacles. They move through fear. They don’t let anything stop them from pursuing their dreams. They put others before themselves. [...]
The winter holiday season offers us a wonderful time to focus on hope, faith and miracles. Chanukah revolves around the idea of miracles—a small band of Jews fought against a large army while trying to preserve their religious freedom and won. They had hope and faith and a miracle occurred. Plus, during the rededication of [...]
This video pretty much says it all…Human’s have a huge ability to survive even the worst situations–even concentration camps. Yet, many of us feel we can’t survive much less difficult situations in our lives. We need only look at the huge suicide rates in teens to know that this is true. Here we have a [...]
Yesterday many Jews observed Holocaust Memorial Day. Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, literally the “Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism,” is celebrated on the 27th day in the month of Nisan, a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers). It marks the [...]
Just when things seem the worst, often they get better. I tend to push for better by focusing my thoughts on the positive, training my mind on being grateful, looking for opportunities in the challenges, taking positive action where possible, and generally doing what I create change. Even when it is hardest to feel good, [...]
We’ve had a new president for five days. Has anything really changed? Many of us felt more hopeful watching the inauguration, but what about now? Has that hope lingered? It’s hard to keep hope alive. It’s hard to stay positive, especially when nothing seems to change – or at least not to change quickly or [...]
They say, “Hope springs eternal.” For some it does. For some hope seems a way of life, a way of being, a part of who they are. For others, finding hope for the future takes effort or even real work. Today, as the United States of America and the rest of the world watched, the [...]
Last week I wanted to write a blog about the speech Barak Obama gave after he learned he had been elected the 44th president of the United States. However, I got busy…In the meantime, I’ve been to two events that seemed quite different, but they both reinforced similar messages to the one I took [...]
In line with yesterday’s post, and inspired by two poets’ poems on the subject of yesterday’s voting, Rachel Barenblatt and James Stone Goodman, here’s my poem about yesterday’s election results. The new president comes like rain after a long drought. The land soaks up the needed nourishment. The people heave a sigh of relief; Maybe [...]
The rains came this weekend, washing clean the dust of the summer, the soot from the wildfires and any remaining fear of new fires being kindled. In Northern California, the rainy season starts almost like clockwork on or around Halloween. I find that so amazing…almost miraculous. In the almost seven years I’ve lived [...]
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