
Affectionately known as "America's #1 Success Coach," Jack Canfield is the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem, achievement motivation, and peak performance. [www.jackcanfield.com]

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post and the author of twelve books. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

Seth Godin is a prominent author, blogger and speaker. [www.squidoo.com/linchpin]

Krishna Kaur is the founder of YOGA for Youth, a program that takes yoga, meditation, and stimulating discussions on the philosophy of yoga to urban youth. [www.yogaforyouth.org]

Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film. He is also a political and social activist and philanthropist. [www.normanlear.com]

Leilani Münter is a professional race car driver and an environmental activist who uses her voice in the number one spectator sport in America as a catalyst for change. [www.leilanimunter.com]

By going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders, Kevin Bales exposed modern slavery's penetration into the global economy. He co-founded Free the Slaves, which has helped to liberate thousands of slaves. [www.freetheslaves.net]

Sophie Chiche, lifebyme.com founder and curator, enjoys asking deep questions and living a life of meaning. Today she's launching Shape House, an urban sweat lodge, a place to melt away fears and fat. [www.shapehousela.com]

Entrepreneur and writer Mastin Kipp founded TheDailyLove.com, which merges pop culture with inspiration, and co-founded The Love Yourself Company, an apparel company that has started a global self-esteem movement. [www.TheDailyLove.com]

Liz Phair is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. [www.lizphair.com]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is Chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who address some of the world's most pressing problems. He works energetically for human-rights and in his ministry. [www.tutu.org]

Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of Women for Women International, a group dedicated to helping women survivors of war rebuild their lives. [www.womenforwomen.org]

Despite his physical challenges, Sean Stephenson has taken a stand for a quality of life that has inspired millions of people around the world. He's a professional speaker, psychotherapist, and author. [www.timetostand.com]

Kia Miller teaches Yoga at Yoga Works in Los Angeles, leads teacher trainings, and runs retreats and workshops on meditation, chakras, pranayam, and mantras, and other practices. [www.kiamiller.com]

Simon Mainwaring is an ex-Nike/Wieden creative, former Worldwide Creative Director at Motorola/Ogilvy, branding/advertising writer, author/speaker/blogger, Australian, idea geek. [www.simonmainwaring.com]

Shannon Bindler is a style editor, life coach, and the co-founder of Get Up Girl, an empowerment company that inspires women to shine. [www.getupgirl.com]

Grammy-nominated art director/designer/photographer Mathieu Bitton has designed over 450 CDs and movie posters. He's a renowned collector of and authority on black films and their soundtracks. [www.candytangerine.com]

Opus Reps founder and agent-producer Jorge Perez travels the world producing photo shoots with great photographers and celebrities. He's also very involved with Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles. www.opusreps.com
awakening

At this moment, meaning to me is found by honoring the insight and grace I experience in every way, shape, and form possible. Connecting, offering, sharing, expressing, and loving are ways that I serve in the awakening of others and stay in the creative process. There is no greater meaning felt than when I am experiencing the reality of this intention. This moment, these words…
This powerful intention was born out of a sudden, startling, and massive experience. An expansion in awareness that occurred at age 35 after I asked some very deep and intense questions about the nature of life. When the yearning was deep enough life responded. Answering in the most profound way with beauty and depth that is truly beyond words to explain.
Ever since the incredibly transformative moment, whenever the dramas of life seem to creep their way in, I just remember that everything has meaning. I have been birthed and nurtured through time by an elegant, unconditionally loving, and supportive universe. Everything I face is related in some way to my evolution. This understanding is what keeps me in the greatest state of trust and faith along my journey.
Many who suffer, do so without realizing that much of their suffering is born of false thought. Lies are lived as truths for years. They work to be realized in all of our energy and all that we experience in life. It is not what we think about that becomes real in life, rather, only that which we believe to be true. This is what life is always working to serve.
To find true meaning and personal liberation, we each must find our true self. To find the true self, we must uncover all that has been believed that is false. To find what is false, follow the suffering. For behind all suffering is a false thought. When all has been revealed, you will find that the only thing true about the self is absolute beauty and perfection. Meaning and opportunity will then be seen everywhere you look.
Never stop hoping. Never stop questioning. Never stop in the search for and experience of meaning, for it is present in every expression of who you are.
– Howard Falco
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