The Newsletter of the Boothby Institute
A monthly publication designed to highlight issues of significance, program news and opportunities, as well as the writings of others related to creating a world that works for everyone.
Michael Neill and Loving-Kindness Ten Years Ago
HOW IS IT THAT CLARA LOVES MICHAEL? By: Bill Cumming It is not a mystery; understanding a child's love for his/her father, contains within it some of the most important underlying principles of the work we do in the Center for Access to the Power Within. (That's what we used ...
Accessing The Power Within is Our Purpose
by Bill Cumming The Boothby Institute is about some very specific and clear objectives. Here is the essence of our reason for being: 1. Individuals experiencing that they are loved absolutely and unconditionally, that their value is a given (has nothing to do with good deeds, achievements or great damage ...
The Ross Girardi Manifesto 2014
ONE PERSON’S PLAN: Being awake is step one. Once you know you are loved and valued, constructive action becomes much more likely. Ross Girardi is a Boothby Board Member and Managing Director at Conscious Management Consulting. He can be reached at: 11654 Plaza America Dr., #344 | Reston, VA 20190 ...
An Apology and a Call to Action
by Bill Cumming Dear, Dear Friends, Members of Our Family of Humankind! For the past few months, I have been telling myself that our absence from both the newsletter and mindful moments (and I do apologize for the unannounced vacation) was about new websites and new formats, technology, you know ...
Katie Carlson
Editor's Note: This is a powerful article written for a college class, Education in the USA, about the conditions that exist in our educational system, mostly unaddressed. It will allow you, if you are open to it, to see what your experience was and who you have become. Brilliant in ...
Ownership, Responsibility and Love Have no Connection to Guilt, Blame Shame and Fault
by Bill Cumming "The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master." - Don Miguel Ruiz "The Master," God, ...
The Power Within
(This wonderful acknowledgement letter is about the power that resides within each person. We never know which conversations are the most important or how they will manifest in the world.) Subject: With love and gratitude Mr. Cumming, I am writing to you with love and gratitude for all that you ...
POVERTY IN THE HEART
by Bill Cumming Friday afternoon and evening were spent with a friend who is in the midst of a severe economic crisis. I had stopped by to deliver a few hundred dollars hopefully to insure that things would be OK until the end of the month. We stood for a ...
A TEST OF LOVE (Annie’s Coming Out)
by Bill Cumming There is now a way I can share with you on film one of the most important stories that I know. It is the story of Annie McDonald, a highly intelligent teenager, misdiagnosed and thus confined from the age of three to an institution for the profoundly ...
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR OPINIONS Or DEMOCRACY AT RISK Perhaps CIVILIZATION AT RISK
by Bill Cumming The year is 2013. The United States and perhaps the world is at risk. I have been aware of it from the time I was a small child and heard words like "kike, whop, heeb, and spik." Each time I heard them, I cringed. I had no ...
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