Inner Peace
Inner Peace: The heart is where it’s at
Jim Hatton: There are countless definitions and uses of the word love…. Here is my definition: Love is what is created when God-Source sees itself within its own creation.
September 17, 2025
Jim Hatton: There are countless definitions and uses of the word love…. Here is my definition: Love is what is created when God-Source sees itself within its own creation.
Richard Carey: Now, with some sadness, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on. In my own pursuit of inner peace, I’ve got a few bucket list items to take care of, and I’m not getting any younger.
Annie Katz: Cultivating stillness, resting in a quiet body and a quiet mind, connects us to a deep well of inner peace.
Janai “Grandma Boom” Mestrovich: Mom collected frog memorabilia and also enjoyed drumming. It just made sense to be near the frogs when I drummed and chanted to honor her.
Moshe Ross: The wave’s swell, the trough as well as the crest of the wave, passes from water to water; we each feel each. Thus a suggestion can drag us down or lift us up, although the upliftment really lies within our own divine self, ready to break through.
Jim Hatton: It has been said that if we can observe something, we are not that. In essence, we are consciousness. We are that which is doing the observing.
Annie Katz: What if we were taught that the world is a playground? In such a world, we would be given play areas appropriate to our age along with a few basic suggestions: Don’t hurt yourself. Don’t hurt anyone else.
Richard Carey: Guilt can relentlessly hobble aspirations toward personal happiness and inner peace. It often is the main driver of the need for personal redemption and transcendence.
Jim Hawes: Bill Samuel says that the child (wonder, joy, and enthusiasm) is available any time or age atop what he calls the mountain of struggle.
Inner Peace: Sally McKirgan passed away on Sunday, July 21, at the age of 82. Sally conceived the idea of the Inner Peace column in December 2008. Sally felt the column was perfect for her beloved Ashland, with its “many gifted spiritual teachers and seekers.”
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz said he is willing to return to in-person town halls if decorum and safety can be guaranteed. He specifically called out the group ORD2 Invisible, which Bentz said has orchestrated disruptions at meetings. The group pushed back, and said Bentz is scapegoating the organization to avoid accountability.
KS Wild will celebrate their annual dinner event Saturday, Sept. 27, at the historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak St.
Rabbi Jackie Brodsky: As many seem to have forgotten or denied, the current war in Gaza was started by Hamas terrorists breaking a ceasefire on Oct.7, 2023, when the worst attack on the Jews since the Holocaust took place.
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