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Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- The Central Court of the DPRK staged a trial of American journalists Laura Ling and Seung-eun Lee from June 4 to 8.
The trial confirmed the grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing as they had already been indicted and sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor. Copyright (C) KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) All Rights Reserved.
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Most people agree, at least in theory, that having compassion is a good thing. Some people also believe that they should be compassionate, and they feel more or less guilty for not living up to this precept. But all in all, in our daily lives, compassion is something that we seldom focus on- too many other things seem more important when life is a struggle.

Through my own challenges I have learned that nothing is more important than compassion. And also, that my definition of compassion has bee… Continue

This is a true and very intimate story and it is the first time I share it, so please read it with an open heart.

I don’t know when I fell in love with Nature, but one day my infatuation became impossible to deny. I spent all the time I could find with her, ran to her and buried my face in the grass, stretched out my arms as wide as I could to make room for all of her. Lying on her ground, absorbing the sweetness and power of her earth, I lost myself caressing the soil or looking into her sky.… Continue

I have to confess that when I first looked at Twitter.com I found it a waste of time. A terribly narcissistic one, too...

I cringed imagining millions of egos, all fully busy documenting their every move... for an imagined eternity that can't belong to the ego. The usual desperate call... look at ME and make me REAL...
But suddenly it dawned on me that this, too, is just a way for the desperate ego to call on Spirit and be made REAL.

Twitter is the new craze, it has captured the attention… Continue

We live in a complex world where it is becoming more and more clear that not even the experts have answers. The economic, environmental, social, political, scientific or medical challenges we face are interrelated in a huge web, much too complex for any mind to comprehend, with spectacular unexpected factors turning our reality upside down at every step.

Have we reached the limit of human comprehension? Or is it so that we have reached the limit of the illusion that we understand and are in con… Continue