1999
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
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Jeff Foster talks with a woman about how to best support a loved one who is in emotional distress. Recorded 26th April live in Holland.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
Being in a rush to see results can be your downfall. Here's how to stay the course.
How the Simple act of Walking can bring us Inner Peace. Satish Kumar commemorates the 50th Anniversary of his Peace Walk from India to Washington D.C. with a 50 mile walk along the River Thames to Oxford for the Resurgence 50 'One Earth, One Humanity, One Future' event. http://www.resurgence.org
This guided meditation from Yael Shy, founder and director of MindfulNYU, will help you be patient as your life and your old sense of self dissolves and rearranges.
In low seasons, while you sit in the waiting room of life, patience is a superpower. But by adopting these seven mindsets, you can run circles around life’s challenges.
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“We do not want our freedom gradually,” John Lewis said, “but we want to be free now!”
Someone once said that anger is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die. Impatience is similarly ridiculous.
Do you remember being told as you were growing up that patience is a virtue? Over the years, I have also learned that patience is a necessity.
The perfection of patience is kshanti paramita in Sanskrit. Kshanti can be translated as “patience,” “forbearance,” or “tolerance,” but these words don’t capture the fullness of what kshanti connotes because they all imply a kind of quietism or passivity.