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	<title>Wake Up Call</title>
	
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	<description>Insights &amp; Musings to Stir Your Soul</description>
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		<title>Since we don’t know when we’re going to die, maybe we should get busy living.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/06/i-thought-i-was-moments-from-death-and-it-jolted-me-back-to-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life and death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meaning of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea Garrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being mindful]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life and death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The River Walk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each weekday morning I get on a bus and make a very long commute from the Jersey Shore to New York City. On one particular morning, it dawned on me that I might have only a few seconds to live. It was a couple of days after the Boston Marathon bombing and I was sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How would you answer the question “Who is God?”</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/05/how-would-you-answer-the-question-who-is-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emerson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I had a reader contact me about a blog post I had written. Like a lot of my Wake Up Call columns, it referenced God, and this particular person had a question that went something like this: “I enjoyed your story but you didn’t answer the question: Who is God?” It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the best guru for you, you?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/05/is-the-best-guru-for-you-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemplation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gurus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Harvey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Krishnamurti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sasaki]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do you need a guru? If you fall down, then pick yourself up and continue to walk. ~Krishnamurti I’ve been reading with interest some of the posts of my fellow Patheos blogger Ambaa, also known as the White Hindu, who does a wonderful job of opening a window into Hindu traditions and philosophy. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excessive generosity: how you can make your world a better place.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/04/excessive-generosity-how-you-can-make-your-world-a-better-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/04/excessive-generosity-how-you-can-make-your-world-a-better-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Generosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giving back]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the wonderful More or Less, Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity, by Jeff Shinabarger. But before I discuss this book, I’d like to start off with an anecdote. The motivational author Napoleon Hill, best known for his book “Think and Grow Rich”, is one of my all-time favorite inspirational writers. Hill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is God when evil happens?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/04/where-is-god-when-evil-happens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life and death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I started writing this post just after the Newtown school shootings in Connecticut this past January, and now feel compelled to finish it given the events that just took place at the 2013 Boston Marathon. When something so sinister happens to so many innocent people it begs the question: How could God let this happen? It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving the church and finding God.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/03/leaving-the-church-and-finding-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meaning of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who is the greatest figure in the history of American spirituality? If you ask me this highly subjective question I will tell you it’s the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here’s why. A graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, Emerson serves for three-plus years as a minister at a Unitarian church. But at the age of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You have three months to live. Now what?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/03/you-have-three-months-to-live-now-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/03/you-have-three-months-to-live-now-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life and death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugene O'Kelly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Templeton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Kabat-Zinn]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At 53, Eugene O’Kelly was on top of the world. He was Chairman and CEO at one of the Big Four accounting firms, a job he loved. He lived in a penthouse apartment in New York City, had a lakefront vacation home and a happy family life with a wife and two children. Then one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know the 100-year old secret behind “The Secret”?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/02/do-you-know-the-100-year-old-secret-behind-the-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/02/do-you-know-the-100-year-old-secret-behind-the-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ernest Holmes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John S. Haller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Trine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve probably seen one of the many studies in recent years that have found Americans are becoming less “religious” and more “spiritual”. I count myself squarely in the spiritual group, and given that you’re now on the pages of the Patheos Spirituality channel, so may you. For me, being spiritual means a daily commitment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Shimoda: Life lessons from a fictional messiah.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/02/donald-shimoda-life-lessons-from-a-fictional-messiah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/02/donald-shimoda-life-lessons-from-a-fictional-messiah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Shimoda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illusions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Bach]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/?p=658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years, I’ve written almost 100 blog posts on all types of spirituality-related subjects. But week after week one of my oldest columns gets the most Web hits—double and triple the number of views as my next most popular post. It’s called “The Wisdom of Donald Shimoda”. Shimoda is one of two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Soul Whisperer: Thomas Moore and the care and understanding of our souls.</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/01/the-soul-whisperer-thomas-moore-and-the-care-and-understanding-of-our-souls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wakeupcall/2013/01/the-soul-whisperer-thomas-moore-and-the-care-and-understanding-of-our-souls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Rapsas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemplation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the soul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I moved into a home with large built-in bookcases in the den. This was a treat as my several hundred books were previously scattered on small bookcases around the house and I now could store them in one place. It also gave me good reason to organize my books by category and author. [...]]]></description>
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