June 13 Tip: Explore World Affairs Council

June 13 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Explore the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana

http://www.wacaky-in.org/welcome/index.cfm?CFID=68067485&CFTOKEN=97538670

In 2010, World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary.

For twenty years the Louisville Community knew  us as the Louisville International Cultural Center (LICC). In order to highlight our role in bringing high-quality international programming to our area and to emphasize our role as the local chapter of the World Affairs Councils of America, we have become the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana!

 As the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana we continue to provide international visitor programs in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State and other governmental agencies, while increasing our level of service to the area through the speaker programs and educational activities for which World Affairs Councils are known throughout the nation.

 World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana is a Member of NCIV - National Council for International Visitors and World Affairs Councils of f America.

June 12 Tip: Stay Open to the World

June 12 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn to Stay Open to the World

http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=tami-simon&p=1310&category=PP&version=full

Pema Chödrön: Staying Open to the World

We sometimes think of our spiritual teachers as exalted beings who have discovered the way to transcend the everyday struggle and uncertainty of normal life. But when you listen to Pema Chödrön, you realize just the opposite is true—Pema teaches about Buddhism from a place of grounded vulnerability, tenderly sharing her first-hand experience of the nitty-gritty of the human journey. When asked to select a segment from Pema’s audio program Awakening Love, Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute says, “I chose this selection from Pema’s closing talk on awakening in this moment because it perfectly captures her approach to the dharma: direct, heartfelt, and open to all.”

June 11 Tip: The Power of Releasing Our Past

June 11 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Listen to Short Audio by Jack Kornfield on "The Power of Releasing Our Past"

http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=podcast&p=6295&category=AGM&version=

The past shapes the present, yet often we feel as if we’re trapped in its grip and cannot move forward. Both Buddhism and Western psychology agree on the importance of releasing the traumas of our past—yet how do we let go of the experiences that have helped make us who we are? Jack Kornfield, who has intensively studied both Eastern and Western philosophy, believes that healing our relationship to the past starts with one simple step. In this audio clip, he explains what that step is, and how we can immediately begin walking the path to freedom.

June 10 Tip: Learn about the Quakers

June 10 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn about the Quakers and Congratulate Louisville's Quaker Meeting; Today is its 50th Anniversary!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends

The Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, is a body of Christians that originated in 17th century England under George Fox. In 1988 the society had 200,260 members, with heavy concentrations in the United States (109,000), East Africa (45,000) and Great Britain (18,000). Quakers unite in affirming the immediacy of Christ's teaching; they hold that believers receive divine guidance from an inward light, without the aid of intermediaries or external rites.

Meetings for worship can be silent, without ritual or professional clergy, or programmed, in which a minister officiates.

Although their antecedents lie in English Puritanism and in the Anabaptist movement, the Society of Friends was formed during the English Civil War. Around 1652, George Fox began preaching that since there was "that of God in every man," a formal church structure and educated ministry were unnecessary.

June 9 Tip: Learn about Compassionate Friends of Louisville

June 9 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn About Compassionate Friends of Louisville

http://m.facebook.com/pages/The-Compassionate-Friends-of-Louisville/157598480982717?id=157598480982717&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch&_rdr

Grief Support After the Death of a Child

"The Compassionate Friends is about transforming the pain of grief into the elixir of hope. It takes people out of the isolation society imposes on the bereaved and lets them express their grief naturally. With the shedding of tears, healing comes. And the newly bereaved get to see people who have survived and are learning to live and love again." 
–Simon Stephens, founder of The Compassionate Friends

June 8 Tip: Become an Urban Farmer

June 8 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Join "15 Thousand Farmers" and Get Involved with Urban Agriculture

http://www.15thousandfarmers.com/Home_Page.html

Growing community through

neighborhood-based,

sustainable growing

How to Grow Food Simply in Your Yard!
We'll teach you everything you need to know to start growing a simple and easy food and herb garden in your backyard. We provide diagrams, instructions and checklists for starting to grow simply in a 4' x 4' box. We'll tell you where to buy or how to make the box, where to buy the soil and worm compost. And when and how many seeds and seedlings to plant. It's easy to follow and then let nature do the rest!

June 7 Tip: Learn about Hand in Hand Ministries

June 7 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn About Hand in Hand Ministries

http://myhandinhand.org/

Hand in Hand believes that all people deserve life’s essentials – food, water, clothing, shelter, education and medical care. Although we consider ourselves faith-based, we do not proselytize, and we welcome all people of good will – believers and non-believers – who wish to join us in changing the world.
It has always been vitally important, and is especially so in the world today, that people of different beliefs, races and all of the other factors that divide us, be able to work together for the common good.

• Hand in Hand Programs
Hand in Hand Ministries makes its vision a reality by establishing programs to serve specific local needs – determined in cooperation with the local population. We work where needed – but especially in Central America, the Caribbean and Appalachia.
While recognizing the dignity of those we help, our goal is to provide the hope and skills to one day become self-sufficient and enable them to help others.