Connected? Before you’ve eaten breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world . . .

There's not a great deal in life that inspires us more than reading about Martin Luther King. Yesterday, we spent a little time doing just that. It was Martin Luther King Day, an annual holiday, held to commemorate his birth (in 1929), after all. It'll soon be five decades since Dr King died, in 1968, yet his place in...

‘We should be better at reaching out to people who have become disconnected from others . . .’

More than one million people kill themselves EVERY YEAR. That's 3,000 deaths a day, or one every 40 seconds. On an annual basis, suicide claims more lives than war and homicide COMBINED. These are statistics that cause us some concern. You might be questioning the motivation for this particular post so let's clear that one...

Zack’s Shack – an inspiration to us all . . .

'It feels GREAT to give . . .' - Zack Francom. Imagine making a difference. REALLY making a difference. Imagine changing someone's life. For the better. Forever . . . Imagine the impoverished. The desperate. Those struggling just to survive. Imagine someone denied life's basics. Imagine a mother. She is disabled. She is crawling through the dirt,...

Boys and girls, old and young, all Earth’s creatures live as one

Mother Earth, Father Sun, Moon and stars, we all are one, We are all connected . . .* Music is important to us here at OM® . . . Our tastes are all different, for sure, but music is something that, at one level or another, unites and bonds. Through time, across great distances, music spans gaps...

Inspiring individuals to wellness, purpose and abundance . . .

You'll all be aware, we're quite certain, that here at OM®, connection is our thing. Common interests, shared goals, the invisible thread that binds us as human beings, this subject - inexplicable though it might be - is one that has always fascinated us. Lives are linked, stories intertwined, there can be no doubt. It is...

‘Just a little bit of time makes a BIG difference . . . ‘

Nicholas Lowinger can still recall the first time he ever set foot in a shelter for homeless people. He was just five-years-old, accompanying his mom, an art therapist whose work took her to places her son might otherwise never have seen. 'I remember . . . seeing kids who were just like me,' he says. 'The...

‘You count. You actually matter . . .’

'We are all connected [and] when you show someone kindness, they can take that kindness and give it to someone else,' says Jemmie Adams as he doles out $10 bills to a succession of customers at a BP gas station in Jersey City . . . The suspicion he encounters is overlooked and he asks...

‘Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition . . .’

Martin Luther King took a stand and Rosa Parks took a stand and, because of their courage, they helped to change America. [But] we still have a long way to go and our people today, especially our young people, need to be willing to take a stand for what is right. - Reverend Stanley McDonald,...

Removing our masks for the OM Year of Courage!

In 2013, we celebrated the OM Year of Kindness, sharing stories about people who had looked out for others, done good deeds and made a difference. It is an exercise that proved to be both inspirational and informative. It sometimes feels as though kindness is in short supply, but our blog posts have shown that...

‘You always shone a light on the path . . .’

Since the sad news broke last night, much has been said and written about the late Nelson Mandela. The revolutionary, the politician, the philanthropist. The hero, the icon, the inspiration. Madiba meant a great deal to us all here at OM®, for the things that he stood for (and let's not forget that his was a life...